Later, Mick tells Linda that they need to talk and Linda says it's about time and she heard him and Johnny, but she refuses to talk about it as she thinks she knows her children and Johnny isn't gay. Aunts She was involved in a brief scandal where Dexter Hartman (Khali Best), Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) and Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick) discovered pictures of her during her time as a Page 3 model. Portrayed by Bright estimated herself to be aged 10 at the time. EastEnders senior executive producer Kate Oates explained that Linda's downward spiral was a combination of a lot of traumatic experiences in her life. Mick apologises to Linda, feeling as if he has let her down, but Linda reassures that he hasn't. Although they were not officially married at this time, Linda and Mick lied to their family for years that they actually were. Linda then walks in and also confronts Max for using Mick's trauma to his advantage. Age [20] Dean also stumbled upon the family secret that Mick and Linda were not married, and later drunkenly kissed Linda when she was struggling with issues surrounding Mick falsely pleading guilty to soliciting prostitutes. When Phil is kicking everyone out, Phil is confused to how Mick knows Shirley and Shirley reveals to Mick that Phil is her brother. The renewal commences, and Linda fluffs her lines, however they eventually get through their vows and a party commences in the pub. However, he realises what she is doing and in the ensuing argument he leaves home. Mick tells them that he better make an announcement. However, Linda is still tempted to drink and on the day of Denny's funeral, after an argument with Sharon, she does. What age is Linda Carter and how old is actress Kellie Bright? She made her first appearance on 19 December 2013 . Linda's mum, Elaine, owns a pub in which Linda grew up in. Linda pretends that it was the way Lee went off at Dexter at Nancy's party and it got her thinking whether Dexter is right for Nancy. Linda is devastated when Dean is acquitted but tells Mick she has become a strong person and that their relationship has become stronger. The following morning, the day when Mick and Linda are suppose to open for the first time, Linda looks out of the window and sees Tina and Shirley at the door with their belongings and Mick tells her they're moving in and Linda has objections to Shirley moving in, but is fine with Tina. Aggie Max doesn't listen which leads to Mick punching him. 46 Albert Square The introduction of Dyer and Bright was part of a large cast shake-up planned by new executive producer Treadwell-Collins in an attempt to improve ratings. She also puts up a chart marking the days of being sober and gets rid of all her hidden bottles of alcohol throughout the house. Frankie Lewis (2016-2022) Bright returned to filming full-time on 22 April 2017, and after making a guest appearance on 30 June 2017, her full-time return aired on 7 August. Linda isn't pleased with Shirley and she tells Mick to step up. Has Shirley Carter left EastEnders for good after Mick's exit? When Mick pours in Lavender bubble bath, the scent makes her physically throw up and as Mick helps her, he tells Linda that he's sussed out the problem, which is that she is pregnant. [22] Maria Friedman was introduced as Linda's mother, Elaine Peacock. In a panic, Linda drives away but Mieko saw what had happened and informs Shelley who calls the police. Mick later finds out about the hotel and confronts Linda, who claims she cannot remember anything but gets herself tested for STIs. The next day when Linda catches Shirley throwing away the pies, Shirley says the pies are off and the meat is dodgy and Linda samples a pie. EastEnders films Linda Carter's return in sad funeral scenes He survives and they follow Linda's plan of staging Keanu's murder, with Martin disposing of the evidence and both of them keeping quiet. PC Jenkins then tells Linda the next stage is to take a statement, which can either be handwritten or a video statement that could be used further down the line if the case goes to court so she wouldn't have to stand in a witness box and Linda opts to do a video statement. Dean, still convincing himself that Linda cheated on Mick with him, says it doesn't give her the right to ruin things for him and Linda orders him to get out. Linda and Mick receive an invite to their daughter Nancy Carter's (Maddy Hill) wedding to Wayne Ladlow (Malachi Kirby), a troublemaker, but they disapprove so Mick forcibly removes her from the wedding service. Horrified at what she has done, Linda runs off. On a night out, she becomes tired of Mick constantly watching what she drinks and takes a drink which is seen by Max. Landlady/Barmaid Laundrette worker Waitress Businesswoman When Shirley breaks into the pub to confront Linda over being manipulated by Stuart, Linda calls the police and they arrest Shirley. Linda is not voiced in the sketch. Picking up two days after Mick Carter's shock exit on Christmas . Linda says she told Dean that she cared about him, but in a maternal way as he isn't much older than her kids and he was talking about suicide and she tried to comfort him. Shirley Carter, played by Linda Henry, walked out of Walford after a hellish week for her family. Mick later decides that it is better for them to leave the pub and they sell it to Ian Beale and Sharon. Mick tells Linda that they don't need a baby as they have each other. [17] Bright chose to continue playing Linda Carter on EastEnders while competing on Strictly Come Dancing, working all day at EastEnders and rehearsing for Strictly in the evening. BBC EastEnders' Linda Henry's life from husband of 30 years - MyLondon When Johnny reveals to Mick he is gay, Linda overhears and is devastated by the news. Linda questions why he didn't call the police considering it was in self-defence. Linda Bernadette Carter (ne Peacock) is the daughter of John and Elaine Peacock, ex-wife of Mick Carter and mother of Lee, Nancy, Johnny, Ollie and Annie Carter. Later when Linda and Mick head to The Vic, Linda tells Mick that she can't be here and she asks Mick to take her away. [19] Linda remained unaware of the crush for several weeks until Dean fondled her buttocks during a photoshoot for the salon. [7] Hello called them "childhood sweethearts". Linda lies to Mick, saying it's a beauty clinic her mum's friend put her onto it, but Mick knows when Linda is lying and he asks why she rang the clinic and why she never told him as he thought they were best friends and told each other everything. A few days later, Mick tells Nancy and Johnny that Linda is still unwell. Callum Highway's brother and Mick's longtime friend, Stuart Highway, arrives. Cora persuades Linda to go along to the court and show Mick her support and at the court, Cora discovers the prostitute was her daughter, Rainie Cross. Linda says that Mick is excited about the baby and Stacey asks if she is worried if the baby is Dean's, but Linda doesn't know and she can't be sure plus Dean is Mick's nephew, so they're all in each others lives. Linda first appears when her partner Mick Carter's (Danny Dyer) sisters, Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) and Tina Carter (Luisa Bradshaw-White), visit her mother Elaine Peacock's (Maria Friedman) pub in Watford, where Linda and her family are living. Grandfathers Episode 6696 (11 May 2023) | EastEnders Wiki | Fandom Linda was described as having been with Mick since they were teenagers, and despite not being 'blessed with brains', is a 'tough woman who will always fight tooth and nail for her family especially her children'. Jack takes Max home and confronts him about the file that he stole and used to threaten Phil. Linda assumes Mick has cheated on her but he tells her that Frankie is nearly 31 years old which means Mick would have been 12 when she was conceived. Ongoing [8] They were called "a tight family unit",[9] and Treadwell-Collins said they have a "good marriage" and "an easy shorthand with each otherbut can also still fight like teenagers. Paired with professional dancer Kevin Clifton, she was described by head judge Len Goodman as a "great all round dancer". When Dean attempts to rape his fiance Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons), Linda encourages her to report this to the police. Frank|Freddie Mercury|Freida|Genghis|Gilbert|Gloria|Gumbo|Heathcliff|Hercules|Joey|Joey|Lady Di|Lionel|Lovebirds|Mandoo|Marge|Marge (II)|Marilyn|Musty|Neville| Upstairs, Stan and Shirkey try to explain things to Mick, but Mick refuses to listen. A seething Linda orders Shirley to collect her things and to be gone before she gets back. [7], Bright appeared as Joan Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel, Rock and Chips, from 2010 until 2011. Halfway gives the ring to the Carters, who then give the ring to Fi in exchange for the freehold for the pub. Halfway's brother and Mick's longtime friend, Stuart Highway (Ricky Champ), arrives. Sharon invites Mick and Linda to The Albert for a couple free drinks later that day and meanwhile, they babysit Bert and Ernie Moon for Kat and Alfie. Linda and Mick return to Walford a few weeks later to find Shirley behind the bar and Dean in the pub and Mick declares the party is over. When Linda goes to make Dean a hot chocolate, her and Mick's song starts to play and Dean follows her into the kitchen and he kisses Linda. Linda sits at the kitchen table and her and Mick's song starts to play and Mick takes Linda from the kitchen to the bedroom. Linda signs the paperwork and Shirley forges Mick's signature. However, when Stuart regains consciousness, he tells the police that Mick shot him, and Mick is arrested and remanded. Linda tells PC Jenkins that Dean was drunk and tried to kiss her, but she pushed him away before slapping him. Nancy, without realising, puts her head round the door, but shuts it quickly and she turns the music up in the kitchen, telling Johnny it's not normal how much their parents see of each other and to think of their mental scars. After explaining she would have finished having babies at the end of her thirties if it were possible, she added: "But who gets to pick their life like that? 4. Shirley Carter (2016-2022) When Stan says that Mick now has a brother, Mick rages tells him Dean is nothing to him as Linda comes up the stairs. He believes this will show Linda how much he cares for her and will be enough to win her back. Mick turns up at Sharon's and he tells Linda that he spoke with her mum, who told him she'd been off crutches for a week and they should talk instead of avoiding it. In bed, Mick reassures Linda and he now has a better understanding of why she has been behaving so oddly and he says they will do a test and take it from there. NOTE: Please do not add content from the BBC iPlayer's early episodes until it has been aired on television, as it is intrusive to our readers who may not have seen the episode on iPlayer. 19 December 2013 PC Jenkins tells Mick that because he is a material witness, he will have to give a separate statement and Mick says he'll do it later as he needs to be by Linda's side. Mick, Linda and Ollie later leave to live in Elaines pub as they fear Max will return, however a few weeks later, Mick and Ollie return to Walford alone without Linda. Mick attacks Dean forcing Shirley's revelationDean is his brother. Stan takes Linda to his old flat where Johnny is staying, and, after some tough love from Stan about her past, she apologises to Johnny and drops him off at gay pride, giving him her blessing. Upstairs, Dean tells Linda how he can's trust women after Shirley abandoned him again and Lauren dumped him and how discovering Kevin Wicks wasn't his biological father sometimes makes him feel that he doesn't want to be around. Linda refuses to accept that he is gay and encourages him to date Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty), who shows an interest in him. magazine: "First of all, if I was a man having my third child at 44, no one would bat an eyelid. Later, Linda tells Mick that she wants Shirley out and she tells Shirley that she is sacked as she runs The Vic, so she decides who does and doesn't work as the pub is the family's, which is her, Mick and the kids. Linda tells Mick that she slept with Max but Mick can't bring himself to do anything about it which makes Linda think he doesn't care. Annie Carter (2021), daughter of Linda and Max Branning, adopted by Mick Jade Green aka Roya Masood (2008), daughter of Dean Wick and Shabnam Masood Jimmy Wicks (2012), son of Carly Wicks Linda then brings up the fire Shirley caused accidentally on Christmas and how they lost so much before telling Shirley she did her kids a favour by walking out on them and she asks Shirley if she has any idea how much she hurt Mick. Mick theorises that Linda is pregnant when she vomits at the smell of lavender bath soap, and she, is horrified to discover he is correct, when she takes a test. Mick also says that Dean has been bad mouthing Linda to people and he wouldn't let it go, which resulted in Mick loosing things and Linda promises the whole thing is in Dean's head. We liked her already, but we love her now! Mick talks to Linda about her decision and booking the clinic, but Linda has already booked the clinic and she doesn't want it and Mick asks if he has a choice in it. Linda Carter | EastEnders Wiki | Fandom Ollie is taken to hospital where a doctor tells the Carters that he could have brain damage after a head injury. Linda says that neither of them wanted to talk about it and that it's OK to admit he is scared because things don't seem so bad. She first appeared on 19 December 2013 and her casting was announced alongside her on-screen partner, Mick Carter ( Danny Dyer ). Kellie Bright After Willmott-Brown collapses from a heart attack, Fi gives the Carters a chance to buy back the freehold for The Queen Vic for 150,000. Later, Linda is sat in the room with the TV on mute and Nancy brings her mum sausage rolls and tomato soup, which was Nancy's special sick meal, with the film Dirty Dancing to watch together. In 2013, Linda and Mick finally secured enough funds to buy their own pub and packed their bags, bought the Queen Vic and moved to Walford. Dean develops feelings for Linda, which she is at first unaware of, but discovers when he gropes her buttocks at a photoshoot for his new salon. EastEnders bosses worked with charity Rape Crisis to develop the storyline. PC Jenkins asks if Linda still has the message and her phone will be needed to be used as evidence and Linda feels as if it will be her word against Dean's and PC Jenkins explain that in a case with no witnesses, it comes down to the issue of consent. Following the attack, Linda fell pregnant. Elaine tries to get Linda to come clean and suggests they talk to Dean, but Linda snaps and says nothing is going on between her and Dean as she is not like her. At the Christmas raffle, Mick announces that he and Linda are expecting another baby and when Linda gives out the first prize to Stacey, a bottle of Whiskey and Dean enters The Vic and shocks Linda, which Stacey picks up on. Annie was born on 13 September 2021 to Linda and Mick Carter but is actually the biological daughter of Max Branning. Linda initially blames Whitney and an argument ensues, causing Whitney to leave. Shirley Carter is now ranked 36th in all-time 'EastEnders' characters. Aidan calls off the drug deals, giving the Carters back control of The Queen Vic. Linda says that they haven't got the money and their children are running wild plus she wants to be there for them. Downstairs in the bar, Dean tells Linda that she may think the previous night was a mistake, but it wasn't to him and he appreciates Linda being there for him when he was so alone and he'll never forget it before thanking her. Linda apologises to Mick as she knew he had built his hopes up and Mick says he was just thinking what it would be like to have another boy or another girl, but Linda says they will make do with the children they have before telling him they have a fireworks night to put on. Linda asks Shirley if she really thinks so little of her that she would make up such a thing and Shirley asks Linda why she can't just end it all before things spiral out of control and to confess that she made a mistake and she cheated on Mick because the lies and guilt will come out. Linda Henry has been a firm favourite on EastEnders ever since she first appeared on our screens back in 2006. Stuart seeks revenge on the Carters and one night, Stuart is shot in The Queen Vic. In April 2014, Matt Di Angelo was reintroduced as Shirley's estranged son Dean Wicks. Later on in the bathroom, Linda opens the pregnancy test, which has a positive result. Shirley Carter - Wikipedia She is arrested after crashing into a parent's car during the school run and, failing a breathalyser test, faces a court summons, also a driving ban which she keeps secret from Mick, unfortunately she reverts to drinking alcohol, anxious about telling him. Tina changes the subject and tells Linda that she's staying with Shirley and Linda says there's always a bed at her place for Tina. While Kellie has played Linda since 2013, it wasn't actually her first EastEnders role as she appeared as a bridesmaid at Lofty and Michelle's wedding back in 1986 when she was just 10-years-old. How old is Linda Henry? Linda departed the series on 25 December 2016 but made two separate guest appearances in March and June 2017. Max uses this to blackmail Phil into convincing Sharon to sign The Queen Vic back to Mick. Kellie Bright's casting was announced alongside Danny Dyer's on 1 October 2013, a week after Bradshaw-White's casting was revealed. Linda agrees to keep quiet, but Cora has a change of heart about supporting Linda and reveals Mick's offence to the whole pub, running his name through the mud. She tells the family she thinks Mick is guilty, throws away her wedding rings, and later throws the family out, then allows Stuart to move in, and calls a solicitor to begin divorce proceedings from Mick. Her roles include Linda Carter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, for which she won the 2015 British Soap Award for Best Actress and Best Dramatic Performance, Julie in Ali G Indahouse, Joanna Burrows in The Upper Hand (1990-1996), Cassie Tyler in Bad Girls (2002) and Joan Trotter in Rock & Chips (2010-2011). Rainie Cross, who is trying to get Max to return to the Square, becomes suspicious of Linda and threatens to tell Max that he has a baby on the way. Stacey tells Linda that she never dealt with it in the right way and she should have told her family and her husband, Bradley Branning. Duration She made one-off appearances on 28 and 31 December 2021. It's not just us who have a soft spot for Shirley Carter. Linda is adamant that Mick shouldn't know any of it and he doesn't deserve it and she can cope by eventually putting it behind her with no one else getting hurt. He reminisces about the first time he saw Linda during football and the thing he loves most about her is her kind and honest heart, which she gave to him when they were kids and he's looked after it ever since. She later goes down to the boat's kitchen and sees a bottle of wine on a shelf, but as she climbs to reach for it the boat crash happens and she falls. She's been part of some huge storylines over the years, including her relationship with husband . But how old is Linda Carter? Mick leaves messages on her voicemail to ask her to come home and Elaine returns her to the pub. She spends the next day in hospital but discharges herself, in the need of a drink. Mick points out that she flinched when he touched her and Linda reassures Mick it's got nothing to do with him and Mick begs Linda for her to tell him whatever is bothering her. Linda's friendship with Sharon comes under strain when Sharon reveals plans to open a new bar in Walford, named "The Albert". Mick defends Johnny telling her that she must be trying to prove a point. Linda then sends Woody Woodward (Lee Ryan) to work in The Queen Vic as a bar manager. Back at Sharon's, Linda explains to Sharon how she and Mick had a pretend ceremony as kids and they were meant to do it properly one day. Later, Linda and Nancy have a heart to heart and Linda notices Nancy's bulldog necklace, which was a birthday gift from Dean and Linda warns Dean to stay away from her family, but Dean tells her Nancy invited him to musical bingo and if she's feeling guilty about the other night, then she needs to get over it. The 58-year-old, who plays iconic character Sally Metcalfe, admitted she couldn't commit to staying on the soap forever and would leave when the time was right. At the end of the party, Mick tells Linda that with the kids cleaning up down in the bar, they have a good half an hour to themselves and he asks Linda if she enjoyed her night and whether he can do anything else. Bright has made several guest appearances on British television programmes, her credits include Holby City, Casualty, The Catherine Tate Show and Vera. Elaine and Sharon enter and see that Linda and Mick have reconciled and Elaine wonders what everything has been about. Linda says that things between her and Mick use to be amazing, but ever since the attack, she tries and pretends, but Mick knows something is up and he puts it down to the pregnancy affecting her. [13] Jane Simon from the Daily Mirror said that the fact Mick and Linda are happily married is a "rare thing in soapland". However, the truth is revealed when the prostitute, who is revealed to be Cora's estranged daughter Rainie Cross (Tanya Franks), bumps into Ian's partner Denise Fox (Diane Parish) and reveals the truth. It was announced in December that Linda would be featuring in a special episode centering around her alcoholism on New Year's Eve, with the prognosis saying, "The entire special episode will be shown from Linda's perspective as her drinking problem spirals out of control". Linda, feeling increasingly threatened by Dean, turns down Mick's Christmas Day proposal before stunning Mick by revealing the rape. Aidan then gives Mick a Christmas present and tells him to open it in private. Linda and Stuart begin meeting regularly and become close despite the family's protests. It is a gun, so Mick can be prepared for the big job.The following day, after Linda finds the gun, Mick returns the gun to Aidan and tells him he is out of the job. Linda then begins to explain about Sharon's wedding and she was pleased when Dean started dating Lauren, hoping he'd moved on and later that day, Dean was in a state after Shirley had disappeared and Mick had asked her to calm him down and no to for him to do anything stupid. [3] As a child actress, she appeared in several different series' on British television in the late 1980s and the 1990s, including T-Bag and Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Linda then goes home and Mick tells her that Frankie is his daughter. She made her full arrival on 26 December 2013, the Boxing Day episode for EastEnders, moving into her new home on Albert Square, The Queen Victoria. Linda returns the following day and Mick informs her of Lee's departure and the debts he left. When Linda has arranged an appointment for an abortion, she uses going shopping for Mick's Christmas present as a cover up. 7pm - 10pm, Remember Whilst signing the forms, the consultant asks Linda if she is sure about her decision and Linda says having an abortion is one thing she never thought she would be doing as a baby was all she wanted a few months ago. Present; regular Elaine tells Linda she's worked out what the problem is, which is Dean, and she believes Linda is sleeping with him. The character Linda Henry plays in Walford is ranked 36th in the 100 greatest EastEnders characters of all time. Later, Johnny reveals to Linda that the meat is dog and not lamb and they have a visit from the Environmental Health, who inform them that if the meat isn't suitable for human consumption, they could face a hefty fine and a possible custodial sentence. Subscribe to EastEnders for more: http://bit.ly/EastEndersYTViewers in t. Unable to cope with the negative social stigma surrounding her family, Linda demands that Mick reveals the truth, but he refuses, wanting to keep his word to Ian. The character appeared in her 1,000th episode on 12 October 2022. In December 2013, Linda's sister in law, Tina Carter brings her sister Shirley Carter to a pub in Watford, which turns out to be Linda and Mick's. Shelley insults Ollie which leads to Shirley punching her. Nancy, Lee and Tina overhear Johnny explaining to Linda that with the baby on the way, it seems like the right time and he can't be her baby forever. As Mick and Janine's relationship leads them both to being engaged, Linda learns that they are both having a baby and she accepts that her and Mick's time together is over and finds it difficult to move on. In August 2017. The Carters are traumatised by a violent robbery on The Queen Vic, during which Linda's favourite necklace is stolen. Later in bed, Mick and Linda kiss and when Mick starts to touch Linda, Linda begs him to stop and she breaks down in tears, saying she can't do it. She went to the hospital and it was confirmed the cancer hadnt returned, and Linda was okay. She continued, "I was getting rejected from one job after another and no matter how much I tried not to take it personally, a part of me couldn't help but think: 'I was too ugly to get that part'.
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