Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Newsflash: Cora Is NOT Sharon's Mother

Ever since the latest lot of spoilers were released today with the news that Bouncy Tanya discovers she has an older sister bouncing about the shires due to an impropriety on the part of the old lag her sainted mother, Cora, quite a few people have been getting excited and jumping up and down and betting their lives that - hyperventilate, hyperventilate - Cora's missing daughter will be revealed to be Sharon.

OMIGOD! That means, like, Sharon will be Tanya's sister, like, OMIGOD, they're sure to be best friends, you know ... And who knows, maybe Sharon will even bring Kathy back to Walford with her, because we all know Kathy's been in a coma in witness protection someplace between Florida and South Africa or the Bermuda Triangle. Just check in with *Betty* on Walford Web - he's got it all figured out ... not.

For the record, Sharon is not Cora's daughter. Sharon's birth mother is Carol Hanley; her birth father was a guy called Gavin, who's neither been introduced or explored. Carol Hanley had, in addition to Sharon, two much younger sons and had only just given birth to a daughter when we were introduced to her back in the early Nineties. So, unless Cora was living a double life with a double family and managed to hide four pregnancies from her poor, sick husband, then there's no way in hell that Sharon can be Cora's daughter.

If Bryan Kirkwood's retconned this, then he should be tarred, feathered and pelted with dog shit. And if Lorraine Newman allows this to be retconned, she should get the sack.

Another point to ponder recently on the fora has been with whom is Sharon going to eventually couple. Loads of people are pushing Jack or Max Branning.

Don't even think about it.

The Brannings are sleaze artists. They mutated from Carol Jackson in the late Nineties, lay dormant with old Jim for a few years, and now they're spreading like a cancer across the face of Walford. They're dysfunctional losers who are scrubbed up white trash with a penchant for inbreeding. If they were American, one of them would be sitting in a tree in the Georgia swampland, playing "Dueling Banjoes" and looking sinister.

The last thing any Executive Producer wants to think about or even consider is coupling Sharon with Jack or Max Branning. Sharon is Eastenders' royalty and a class act.

There's really only one person on the Square with whom she shares a history, sexual chemistry and a big bad secret ... and that's Phil.

Please, don't sully Sharon by associating her, even tangentially, with any of the Brannings or their satellites.

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