2 minutes ago, ElectroBoy said:

There should be some spoilers released later today, which should be for the W/B 31st Aug - will be interesting to see if she's mentioned.

Maybe you're right though; she had a few weeks off, wanted more and they said no so she quit and didn't return.

I've seen the magazine spoilers and it's all Max's stag do, Linda, Ravi, Priya and Vicki. She could be back next week (24th August) as Kat and Alfie are mentioned throughout the week but the focus will mainly be on Denise it seems.

2 minutes ago, lewistgreen said:

I've seen the magazine spoilers and it's all Max's stag do, Linda, Ravi, Priya and Vicki. She could be back next week (24th August) as Kat and Alfie are mentioned throughout the week but the focus will mainly be on Denise it seems.

Yeah next week seems to be Denise's' long lost brother turning up; looks like a lot of angry Jack coming up

When the actress who played Debbie Bates, Nigel’s first wife, quit she apparently just went into the office and said ‘write me out now, kill me off, I don’t want to do this anymore’ and so she had an off screen death. I definitely think this is what’s happened with Michelle Ryan. She’s had enough, doesn’t want to film anymore and doesn’t ever want to come back.

Priya carrying about a gigantic empty handbag for weeks has been the most entertaining thing tbh, they're trying to cover her irl pregnancy in the most obvious possible ways 😂

Tommy just coming back like btw Zoe died at Lynne’s xxxx would be so camp and I half expect it now

Bitten by a rabid puppy, I assume mini mo went with her too?

"A bit of De Niro?"

"Which one is that again?"

Vicky and Sharon making a runner with the booze and ditching Cindy

^ Couple of moments that made me chuckle 😄

Also, this is the most I've enjoyed Cindy since her return.

Mini Mo should run away one night and Kat believes that this is an omen that something has happened to Zoe. Alfie tries to reassure her that nothing is going to happen to Zoe whilst Jean cooks up a sausage surprise to take everyone’s mind off it. Tommy somehow materialises in Walford the next day with news that Zoe passed away in the evening around the time Mini Mo disappeared.

Mini Mo is never seen or heard from again. Like Dave the cat.

11 hours ago, Jαsє said:

2 hours ago, Liаm said:

Tommy just coming back like btw Zoe died at Lynne’s xxxx would be so camp and I half expect it now

Omg

Its really not a flex Cindy 😮

9 hours ago, T Boy said:

When the actress who played Debbie Bates, Nigel’s first wife, quit she apparently just went into the office and said ‘write me out now, kill me off, I don’t want to do this anymore’ and so she had an off screen death. I definitely think this is what’s happened with Michelle Ryan. She’s had enough, doesn’t want to film anymore and doesn’t ever want to come back.

While its likely it could have been that way Michelle was more high profile so going this way really doesnt look good plus Michelle and Jessie seem to be friends off screen so it would kind of let Jessie down aswell as Jessie spoke so fondly of Michelle returning.

Its hard to know, maybe one we will find out what really happened but one thing we do know is id say Michelle 1000% regrets going back.

I just don’t think they’d sideline Zoe in her own exit. I guess maybe they would if she’d done something truly terrible behind the scenes but I’d imagine she just wanted to stop. It’s odd they announced she’d filmed her final scenes but there’s been no announcement that they’ve actually aired but I suspect they have. They absolutely screwed this up and for a character so many had been asking to return for years.

First photos of Janine are out there too-arguing with Linda of course.

It looms.

7 hours ago, Jαsє said:

It looms.

I think with Sean coming back, he might end up taking over the Vic - or at least helping to protect Stacey's investment - and also probably buy Jean's house, given he is successful.

I can see the Hawkin's injecting money into Harry's Barn though and taking that over, given Nicola and George's own money issues

Edited August 20Aug 20 by ElectroBoy

Very refreshing to have Jean not treat Priya with contempt around the affair. Priya is such a great character and interacts so well with everyone. I shall miss her when Sophie is on maternity leave (the pregnancy cover ups were a little too obvious today!)

Yeah but remember how we all moaned about how predictable it was that Zoe was going to be revealed as Joel’s mum? And that actually would have been a better story than what we got.

They actually should have done that with Zoe, I thought at the time they could do much better with her but little did we know how dire the alternative was 💀 That at least would have at least meant feuding/interacting with Vicki due to Joel, and more of an interesting dynamic than the twins have with her. But then again, given how they didn’t bother with that dynamic I’m not sure they would have done anything any better.

But in this ideal parallel world, you could have her taking Joel back in after it, that would be better for Vicki too instead of her having to brush over her trauma and just grin and bear it with Joel, you could have much more of her struggling with him back and Ross torn between them as Joel would be around but not under their roof and he’d maybe want to see him. Then perhaps Zoe betters herself too and gets a place for her and Joel instead of just kind of skulking around the Vic with no character progression? But then she could have done the same with the twins production just weren’t arsed, I think Michelle and Wadey have had a difficult relationship the whole time pretty much and the return hasn’t gone as planned at any point so it wouldn’t have mattered.

Yea Nicola will sell Harry's Barn to fund the Restaurant and the Hawkins' will end up in the Vic, it always seems to be the family with a dog that moves in, what happened to the Knight's Chihuahua? 😂

Something random just occurred to me, surely Mini Kat would have been a better name than Mini Mo taking into account her species.

2 hours ago, Lindsey. said:

Yea Nicola will sell Harry's Barn to fund the Restaurant and the Hawkins' will end up in the Vic, it always seems to be the family with a dog that moves in, what happened to the Knight's Chihuahua? 😂

Tyson apparently ended up being left with one of Anna's friends when she left with Freddie. We're quite pet-lite at the moment