For all the knicker-creaming going down now on Digital Spy about Michael French leaving Holby City, consider this:-
- Lorraine Newman said she's turning away from bringing back former characters onto the show. There will be very few returns, as she wants to move forward (with the Brannings and with Kat).
- If any former character does make a return to the soap, it's more likely to be the biggest daddy of them all ... Ross Kemp. Grant comes back and re-ignites with Sharon, right. (That is, if Simon
PantsAshdown allows Lorraine to spend one iota of a minute away from developing the Brannings).
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- David Wicks is a BEALE. If, and that's a big if, he is a character she's interested in seeing on the Square, think about what she said about extending Ian's family. David and Ian are brothers. You just may be seeing the bigging up again of the Beales - Pete's sons on the Square again.
Do learn to think critically ... Now go change those knickers.
I wish he would return to EE. A good character and I for one am sick to death of the Brannings.
ReplyDeleteThe point about David being a Beale- he was introduced when that family were still fairly influential. However, as EE is now Branningville, David will be involved purely with them (similarly to Bianca). If he does return, it will be for Carol as she is a Branning.
ReplyDeleteBianca's Beale roots aren't referenced as they aren't deemed relevant in a Branning-dominated community and they have even forgotten about Sharon's friendship with Ian (except when she needs a babysitter)
Carol and David's "great romance" is a total retcon. They had a brief bunk-up behind the bike sheds when they were fourteen years old and she got pregnant. That's the way it was presented when she returned to Walford, and David found out Bianca was his daughter.
DeleteThere was an almighty-scary judgement scene in the launderette, with Pauline and Pat sitting there looking for all as if they were about to explode, listening to Carol tell about how David gave her 200 quid, in bunched-up, sweaty notes smelling like wet potatoes and David telling how he got the money for the abortion off Pete, showing up after school to help him on the stall one day and lying about needing the money for a school trip to France and saying Pat had spent it on booze. Pete handed the money over from his takings.
Pauline and Pat almost croaked.
Then there was David's remark about Carol's THREE older brothers beating him up.
There was nothing more than that brief, horny adolescent moment. She reconnected with him later on in retaliation for Alan having cheated with Frankie.
David was and is a flash Harry. I found his attraction to Roxy more believeable than the recreation of this year's Pat-and-Frank affair centering around David and Carol. The only reason he stopped short of bedding Roxy was he heard Phil Mitchell in the back of the house, and Phil had roughed David up a fair few times.
IF he returns and it's for Carol, it may be her leaving line. If not, he's got the perfect opportunity to make things right with his brother. He's got a niece and nephew on the Square as well as grandchildren. However, considering the fact that David's slept with both his brothers' wives - Ian's and Simon's - EastEnders will contrive to have him sleep with Denise, if she and Ian are an item. That's about as far as their imagination runs.
Or he'll bed Kirsty or Kat - floozies always were his type.