19 December 2013 Elaine moves in temporarily, which initially causes consternation when she interferes with running the pub. 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 go for the scan, where they are informed that the baby has a strong heartbeat and around 11 weeks size and both Linda and Mick are overjoyed. Stacey says that she was going to tell her something and Linda says that Dean is young, good looking and a bit of a player and she's a bit over protective. Roxy Mitchell . Post coital, Linda agrees with Mick when he says he missed it, but inside, she's numb. Linda tries to cheer up Dean by saying that he is bright, good looking and his own business and after a tough time, he has come through it all. After the party, Linda and Mick have a heart to heart, and he asks her to marry him properly, but she declines, determined to keep up the pretence to their children that they are already married. Unable to get hold of Lee, Nancy asks if they can just guess and Johnny sarcastically guesses that Linda is pregnant and everyone is shocked yet happy when it turns out to be the case. Back in May 2016, Kellie took a six month break from EastEnders to have her second child. However when Linda discovers Shelley insulting her to her friends. Linda returns to The Vic and speaks to the clinic on the phone and Mick wonders who it was, thinking it's his Christmas surprise and whilst Linda goes to the kitchen, Mick rings the number on Linda's phone and he confronts Linda to why she is ringing the clinic. When Linda is called into the room, she leaves and tells Mick to take her home. Linda realises it is Whitney and throws her out, while Mick begs her not to give up on their marriage. Female Dominic Treadwell-Collins (2013) Linda says she told him no before trying to push him off and she told him to stop, but he didn't listen and he grabbed her and pushed her face down onto the table and all she could see were a vase of Lavender flowers and she use to love the smell. Betty (II)|Blue|Boots|Bronson|Chips|Chops|Corky|Craig|Crush|Crystal|Dalgliesh|Dave|Eric| EastEnders spoilers for next week: Character fights for life and Linda 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. Nancy and Lee have an argument, which causes Ollie (now Charlie Harrington) to fall off his highchair. However, Stacey grows suspicious, and when Linda unexpectedly gets scared when Dean is around, Stacey surmises that Dean raped her and confronts Linda. EastEnders bosses worked with charity Rape Crisis to develop the storyline. Later that day, Phil visits the Carters and offers them The Queen Vic back. Linda finally tells her mum the truth that Dean raped her. 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. The storyline began in November 2019 playing a central part of the year's Christmas and New Year episodes. Months later, Linda begins feeling sick and discovers she is pregnant. Linda Henry - Wikipedia Kellie Bright is better known for playing soap character Linda Carter on EastEnders since 2013, but away from Walford the talented actress enjoys an idyllic home life. Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor Character - Actor This episode was uploaded to BBC iPlayer at 6am but was still shown at the regular time . Phil and Sharon agree to it and Max is happy that his plan is working. Bright appears as Linda though dressed up as Sandy Olsen. She is released the next day and attacks Stuart. This is Henry's second role in EastEnders, as she previously played prostitute Lorraine Salter(1991-1992). She returned full-time on 7 August 2017. 13 Sep 2021. However, Linda continues her drinking and thinks that the family are all against her. When Linda has arranged an appointment for an abortion, she uses going shopping for Mick's Christmas present as a cover up. Max uses this to blackmail Phil into convincing Sharon to sign The Queen Vic back to Mick. When Shirley breaks into the pub to confront Linda over being manipulated by Stuart, Linda calls the police and they arrest Shirley. However, Mick is determined to find the money to keep the pub and signs up to participate in a robbery with Aidan Maguire (Patrick Bergin) and his gang on New Year's Day 2018. Upstairs, Linda admits to Mick that she can't have the baby. She told OK! Mick later finds out about the hotel and confronts Linda, who claims she cannot remember anything but gets herself tested for STIs. After Janine scams Nancy and Zack out of 50,000 to give to Linda in an attempt for her to leave Walford, Linda invests the money in the 'Fox and Hair' salon, unaware that the money that Janine gave her was from scammed from Nancy and Zack who wanted to buy a restaurant. The 44 year old. 2013- 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. Dev Griffin Nancy gives her an ultimatum; alcohol or a family. Linda quickly flees the chip shop soon after and Stacey goes after her, asking what she meant and she can't just leave it. Mick tells Linda that they don't need a baby as they have each other. Linda became landlady of The Queen Victoria public house and moved there with her family from her mother's pub in Watford. 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. Lee Carter Johnny Carter Ollie Carter [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. Linda makes a costume for Ollie for World Book Day and he wins 2nd place, delighting Linda. Linda Henry has been a firm favourite on EastEnders ever since she first appeared on our screens back in 2006. As Shirley turns to leave, Linda asks Shirley if she is going to ask how Mick is as it's been 15 years and whether she cares. After making herself sick one day, she tells Mick she cannot get married. In December 2017, Linda Carter talks to Sharon after she flees her and Mick's pub, The Queen Victoria, after she witnesses Mick hugging Whitney Carter, a girl he formerly cheated with her on, after he fiancee jilted her at the railway station before they were due to leave for Spain. 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. Mick pulls Linda to the side and says the trouble is with Johnny, not Dean and they should let Johnny spread his wings a bit, plus they'll have a baby to worry about soon. They are about to return to the pub when Mick has second thoughts and he decides to take Linda away for a break. Linda asks Shirley what she is doing here and Tina says it was her fault and they don't want any trouble. Linda questions why he didn't call the police considering it was in self-defence. "[4] Bright played Kate Madikane (ne Aldridge) in Radio 4's The Archers, and was with the series from 1995 until 2004. Later whilst cleaning the rubbish away, Linda gives Mick a present on his own, which is a West Ham United baby gro and Mick asks Nancy to cover for him whilst he picks up a special delivery before revealing that he is going to propose to Linda. Mick tells Linda that nothing will make him stop wanting her as she is his girl and he'll always want her. Tina asks if they could come back in a couple days to see Mick, dropping the hint of possibly spending Christmas together, but Linda says it's one thing having having a drink with them and another spending Christmas with them. To get some space from Mick and the situation, Linda goes to her mum's in Watford, who has hurt her ankle. [13] Jane Simon from the Daily Mirror said that the fact Mick and Linda are happily married is a "rare thing in soapland". "[6] He said that the characters would laugh, cry, argue and make up, which would embarrass their children, but would delight their neighbours. In 2019, after her son Ollie is diagnosed with autism, Linda becomes disruptive. Linda and Stuart begin meeting regularly and become close despite the family's protests. Repeated intentional offences of this rule could lead to a ban, Many thanks the EastEnders Wiki admin team. Linda then goes home and Mick tells her that Frankie is his daughter. As revenge, Tina steals the money from a bingo jar but Shirley returns it, proving her honesty to Mick, and also recommends The Queen Victoria public house as a potential pub of their own on Albert Square in Walford, where Shirley lives. Months later, Linda develops a stress-induced drinking disorder. She performed in "You're the One That I Want" and "We Go Together".[16]. When she attempts to find solace in Sharon's home, Mick joins her, and she says they should not let what happened get in the way of their relationship. Ten years earlier she'd ranked 89th, so her stories and Linda's performances are obviously boosting Shirley's popularity. She says yes, but only if he fixes a spelling error on the bracelet in which he spelt "flamingo" "flamingoe". The following morning, Linda is researching a clinic up on the internet for an abortion and whilst running a bath, Linda phones the clinic and arranges a telephone consultation for 7pm that night. However, Johnny likes the job and tells her that he does not want to feed information to her. Linda tells Mick and he is over the moon about the idea of them having another baby, although she later reveals that its Maxs. Linda takes Shirley aside and secretly shows her that she has hidden her wedding rings in her bra: her close friendship with Stuart is actually part of a bigger plan to help get Mick out of prison as she still loves Mick and believes he is innocent. Kellie is currently pregnant and recently hit out at trolls who criticised her for having a baby in her 40s. Following this, Stuart is arrested for perverting the course of justice but is quickly released after he blames Dylan, this annoys and worries Linda that Mick might not be released, she hears a sound in the barrel stall and while investigating comes face to face with Mick. Linda explains that she tells Mick everything because she always wanted a marriage like her parents and the worst thing is that she only confessed to the affair as she believed Linda was doing the same. Later, Shirley heads to Phil and Sharon's with a gun, which originally belonged to Ronnie Mitchell and Shirley accidentally shoots Phil. Mick Carter (2016-2022) 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. As Linda is rushed to the hospital her fate is currently unknown as Mick Carter states: "She should die". When Linda learns that Dean is upstairs with Mick, she leaves the table and Nancy tells the family that Mick is going to propose to Linda. In 2015, she was the runner-up in the 13th series of the BBC One show Strictly Come Dancing. BBC By Lewis Knight Published: Thursday, 29th December 2022 at 7:58 pm Save Shirley Carter. However, Aidan becomes suspicious of this and attempts to blackmail Mick into letting him use the pub for drug dealing. 46 Albert Square Lindas grandfather, Pat Peacock, was a pro Boxer named Prancing Pat Peacock. Linda confronts a delusional Dean when he insists on meeting the baby, believing that Ollie is his son. Mick believed Linda was alright with having the baby, but Linda says she did it for Mick after everything that happened with Shirley and Buster and she wanted Mick to be happy, however she has been living with it and she doesn't want it. Upstairs, Stacey explains how Linda must be feeling, such as scared, ashamed and that she must have led him on before telling Linda that she was raped. Linda continues to be uncomfortable with this, and attempts to sabotage his plans by making him work. Linda tells Sharon that she missed Mick when she was at her mum's, but seeing him again brought it all back and the fact he didn't think about what it would to do to them. Stuart seeks revenge on the Carters and one night, Stuart is shot in The Queen Vic. Dean congratulates Linda and Linda asks him who told him, but Dean says the matter is whether it's his or not, but Linda says it isn't. Aidan calls off the drug deals, giving the Carters back control of The Queen Vic. Linda Carter left Walford with a grim task in Tuesday night's EastEnders. Kellie Bright is better known for playing soap character Linda Carter on EastEnders but away from Walford the talented actress enjoys an idyllic home life.. When Dean attempts to rape his fiance Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons), Linda encourages her to report this to the police. Annie Carter | EastEnders Wiki | Fandom In the bathroom, Linda takes the pregnancy test whilst Mick loiters outside and when Linda emerges, she breaks to him that it was a false alarm and Mick finds it difficult to hide his disappointment. Their score including two maximum scores of 40 for their tango to "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks and their showdance to "The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line" by Cherry Poppin' Daddies. She then fills Nancy and Lee in on recent events, having already told Elaine and Sharon. Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) returns to Walford for Tina's funeral, surprising Mick. 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'. Willmott-Brown gives an eviction notice to the Carters, giving them a month to leave. Has Shirley Carter left EastEnders for good after Mick's exit? Husband ", "EastEnders: Linda and Mick aren't married! EastEnders films Linda Carter's return in sad funeral scenes Linda Henry age, partner, children and how long was she in EastEnders Shirley arrives at Phil's and notices 4 mugs and bursts into the living room to find Linda, Mick and Elaine and she demands to know from Linda why she is still lying about Dean and Sharon and Elaine tell Phil to get her out. [30] However, they lost out to David Neilson and Julie Hesmondhalgh, who play Roy and Hayley Cropper respectively in Coronation Street. Jack accompanies Linda to a check-up where she is told that there are no signs of cancer in her body but there is a chance it could come back, so she is unsure if she should tell Mick, but she does so. Present; regular When Mick asks what changed, Linda says that it's knowing that he wants the baby too and she's starting to see things differently. Shirley Carter - Wikipedia Mick and Linda became the landlord and landlady of their pub. [21], On 31 August 2014, it was announced that Dean would rape Linda. This results in Linda leaving Walford to meet up with her children to tell them what happened to Mick. When Linda's birthday surprise arrives, Mick asks Nancy to keep Linda distracted but Linda notices what her birthday surprise is when she looks out of the window, which is Lee, who has returned from Afghanistan. Is Linda leaving EastEnders? Everything you need to know 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. Portrayed by She initially pulls away but then kisses him back. Annie was born on 13 September 2021 to Linda and Mick Carter but is actually the biological daughter of Max Branning. [18] In December 2011, she gave birth to her first son. Mick feels that he is loosing Linda, but Linda reassures Mick that he isn't loosing her and to prove it, Linda kisses Mick and she lets Mick undress her and they have sex. On a night out, she becomes tired of Mick constantly watching what she drinks and takes a drink which is seen by Max. Linda rejected them. Mother He is grieving for a comrade he has lost, and Linda is a comfort and support to him. Stunned, Linda tells Mick, while Dean goes into hiding, where he sees one of Mick and Linda's wedding invites. The next day, Mick heads over to Max's to tell Linda the truth but Max refuses to let him speak to her. After, Linda apologises to Sharon for how she was as Shirley turned up and they have major history and she tells Sharon that she wouldn't believe the stuff Shirley's done in the past before advising her to stay well clear. She made her first appearance on 19 December 2013. 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. Birth List of appearances On 12 March 2015, Bright revealed that she had received "personal letters" from rape victims who had been affected by Linda's story, leaving her feeling "humbled" by the audience's response. She leaves and heads to Sharon's, much to Phil's annoyance and Mick and Elaine head over to Sharon's when Sharon texts Mick. Linda returns the following day with Elaine. Heres what we know. Aunts Linda returns the following day and Mick informs her of Lee's departure and the debts he left. How old is Linda Henry? Distraught over the upset that Mick's actions have brought her family, Linda leaves Walford to stay with Elaine in Watford. Whilst in bed, Johnny brings in the flowers from the kitchen, which were on the kitchen table the previous night and Linda throws them away, At lunch, Dean arrives, acting as nothing happened and Linda flees the pub. Lee admits that he is scared that one day no one will be there to stop him and Linda feels it's the army that have caused Lee to be how he is, but Lee says it's due to anger building up inside and wanting to tell someone and being scared that they won't understand, so he keeps it buried.