"men are concerned. Cindy arrives in Albert Square in May 1988, working on her mother's market stall selling hats. She dates barman Simon Wicks (Nick Berry), who is also seeing Donna Ludlow (Matilda Ziegler), leading Cindy and Donna to fight for Simon's attention. However, Cindy grows tired of Simon's womanising, and despite his feelings for her, she moves on to Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt), who is becoming a successful entrepreneur. Initially she only wants to make Simon jealous but she and Ian start dating and by February 1989, they announce their engagement. Meanwhile, Simon retaliates by reconciling with Sharon Watts"
"market trader, Jordan began writing at the age of thirty-two. He joined ""Eastenders"" after sending a spec script to the BBC about market traders, with a covering letter saying he had been born and raised in the East End of London. The BBC turned down the spec script, but gave him a job on ""EastEnders"" because of his apparent life experience. Afraid of what would happen if the producers found out that he was from the north, Jordan kept up the pretence of being a Londoner for five years. He had left school with no qualifications. For his work in"
"Michelle Collins Michelle Danielle Collins (born 28 May 1961) is an English actress and TV presenter, best known for her roles in the British soap operas ""EastEnders"" and ""Coronation Street"". Collins played Cindy Beale in the BBC soap ""EastEnders"" from 1988 to 1998, with a two-year break between 1990 and 1992. She played Stella Price in the ITV soap ""Coronation Street"" from 2011 to 2014. Her other notable TV roles include the BBC dramas ""Real Women"" (1998–99), ""Sunburn"" (1999–2000) and ""Two Thousand Acres of Sky"" (2001–03). Collins was born at Hackney South East Hospital in Hackney, East London to an"
"Mimi Keene Mimi Keene (born 5 August 1998) is a British actress, known for her role as Cindy Williams in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". Keene studied at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts from 2009–2014. Keene's career began on the stage, making her professional debut playing Janey in ""Kin"" at The Royal Court Theatre from 19 November to 23 December 2010. In 2013, Keene appeared in CBBC's Sadie J as Brandy May Lou and in ""Our Girl"" as Jade Dawes From 2013–2015 Mimi was a series regular in EastEnders as Cindy Williams. In 2016, Keene appeared in an episode"
"She has appeared in ITV's ""The Bill"", and on 31 March 1992 she appeared as Debbie in BBC's ""EastEnders"" who was a college friend of Lloyd Tavernier (Garey Bridges). In 1993, Bryan and Nurding, together with sisters Easther and Vernie Bennett formed the 1990s award-winning, multi-million selling, chart-topping British R&B girl group Eternal. Eternal sold millions of albums and had many international hits, including 16 consecutive top 15 UK chart singles such as ""Stay"", ""Just a Step from Heaven"", ""Oh Baby I"", ""Power of a Woman"", ""I Am Blessed"", ""Someday"", ""Don't You Love Me"", ""I Wanna Be the Only One"""
"play Othello - and I think the two young girls [who played Della and Binnie] did what they could, but they couldn't really give the programme any help."" Della Alexander Della Alexander is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"" played by Michelle Joseph from 1 March 1994 until 16 May 1995. Della is the first lesbian character to be featured on the show. Della arrives in Walford in March 1994 as a new assistant to the market trader, Sanjay Kapoor (Deepak Verma). Della is a former hairdresser who had gone to the same school as the barman"
"T.J. Cinnamons T.J. Cinnamons is a cinnamon roll chain operating across the United States, owned by the Wendy's Company. The company was founded in 1985 by Ted and Joyce Rice. He was a cameraman for KCTV Channel 5 and she was an elementary school teacher. The first T.J. Cinnamons opened in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City, Missouri, in January 1985. At the time, the cinnamon rolls cost $1.25. In 1996, T.J.Cinnamons was bought by Arby's, which was a subsidiary of Triarc Companies. In 2011, Triarc Companies (which is now known as The Wendy's Company) sold 81.5% of"
"Mallender. The two founders started their careers with retail shops in Hereford and Stourbridge and joined forces to buy end-of-line clearance sports products. The success of this led the pair to venture off into off-page advertising, with the first advert appearing in ""SHOOT"" magazine in 1987. National press adverts followed in 1990 specifically offering clothing and footwear. As both men lived in the area a site in Leominster was purchased and the company was born. In 1994 the business was transferred from Stourbridge to its current base in Leominster, Herefordshire. Following a buy-out by private equity group ECI partners in"
"Della Alexander Della Alexander is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"" played by Michelle Joseph from 1 March 1994 until 16 May 1995. Della is the first lesbian character to be featured on the show. Della arrives in Walford in March 1994 as a new assistant to the market trader, Sanjay Kapoor (Deepak Verma). Della is a former hairdresser who had gone to the same school as the barman Steve Elliot (Mark Monero). Realising that Della has a talent that could be a potential money spinner, Steve decides to go into business with her. He and Della"
"I never really saw Wicksy like that and you have to be consistent with these characters."" In 1986, ""EastEnders"" decided to tackle a storyline about the ups and downs of a pop group. The group featured the majority of teenage characters in the soap at the time, including Wicksy. Nick Berry was musically trained, having attended London stage schools. He was initially chosen as the group's solo singer, who named thelmselves ""The Banned"" after they were banned from the Queen Victoria public house. The storyline proved to be a successful merchandising tool for the serial, as it spawned two hit"
"Cindy Williams (EastEnders) Cindy Williams is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by four actresses since being introduced in 1998. Her mother, Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins), dies in labour with her. She is then brought up by her maternal grandmother and aunt off-screen. Ella Wortley and Cydney Parker both portrayed the role from 1998 to 1999, followed by Eva Sayer in a brief appearance in 2007. On 18 July 2013, it was announced that Cindy would return to the series as a regular character, with Mimi Keene taking over the role. Cindy leaves her home in"
"of Casualty as Lana Westmore. Keene also played Megan in a short film, ""The Escape"", in 2017. Keene has also been a voiceover for video games, """" 1 and 2. Mimi has just finished work on the independent feature,""Close"", with Noomi Rapace and ""Tolkien"" for Fox Searchlight with Nick Hoult and Lily Collins. She is currently filming ""Sex Education"" for Netflix starring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson. Mimi Keene Mimi Keene (born 5 August 1998) is a British actress, known for her role as Cindy Williams in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". Keene studied at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre"
"""EastEnders"" brand. He created a ""bubbles unit"" to make, at most, six one-off specials a year. ""EastEnders: Ricky & Bianca"" aired in May 2002, and proved a ratings winner, with more than 10 million viewers tuning in. In the spin-off, Bianca had fallen upon hard times, and accidentally got a visiting Ricky embroiled in a drugs heist. Despite talk of reconciling, Bianca opted to leave Ricky behind once again, leaving Liam in his care. The spin-off brought in various characters unrelated to the main serial, including Vince, Bianca's drug dealing boss played by Craig Charles, and Ricky's fiancée Cassie, played"
"Eva Sayer Eva Sayer (born 31 January 1997) is a British actress, best known for playing Cindy Williams in ""EastEnders"" in 2007. Sayer appeared in one episode of the Inspector Morse spin off ""Lewis"" as Anna Mallory in early 2007. Later that year, Sayer appeared in ""EastEnders"" when Ian Beale was searching for his ex-wife. She has also appeared in various British Telecomms and Marks & Spencer advertisements. She starred as Miranda in the horror film ""The Children"" (2008), and played Flora in the BBC drama ""The Turn of the Screw"" (2009). Sayer has two older sisters called Megan and"
"Cindy for a short stint for Children in Need after Ian knocks his head and sees the deceased women in his life. After leaving ""EastEnders"" in 1998 (when her character met an untimely demise offscreen), her career flourished with a series of drama roles. These include: two series of ""Real Women"" (BBC One); two series of ""Sunburn"" (BBC One), for which Collins sang the theme song (which was a no. 28 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1999); ""Daylight Robbery"" (ITV); ""The Sleeper"" (BBC One); ""Uprising"" (ITV): three series of ""Two Thousand Acres of Sky"" (BBC One): the two-part"
"was introduced in December 2001 by the executive producer of ""EastEnders"", John Yorke. Kelly was introduced on a short-term basis as part of a storyline that saw the regular character, Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan), living rough on the streets of London and being taken in by a madam of a prostitution organisation, Roxy Drake (Tracy Brabin). Kelly was one of the young girls already working as a prostitute for Roxy. Actress Brooke Kinsella was cast in the role. In the past, Kinsella had auditioned for the parts of Janine Butcher, Zoe Slater and Sonia Fowler, but had been unsuccessful. Kinsella"
"created a ""bubbles unit"" to make, at most, six one-off specials a year. ""EastEnders: Ricky & Bianca"" aired in May 2002, and proved a ratings winner, with more than 10 million viewers tuning in. In the spin-off, Bianca had fallen upon hard times, and accidentally got a visiting Ricky embroiled in a drugs heist. Despite talk of reconciling, Bianca opted to leave Ricky behind once again, leaving Liam in his care. The spin-off brought in various characters unrelated to the main serial, including Vince, Bianca's drug dealing boss played by Craig Charles, and Ricky's fiancée Cassie, played by Sally Ann"
"Jenna. She passed a LAMDA exam up to grade 2, ballet and modern dance exams up to grade 3 and her tap exam up to grade 2. She also plays piano and can also dance ballet, tap and modern. Eva Sayer Eva Sayer (born 31 January 1997) is a British actress, best known for playing Cindy Williams in ""EastEnders"" in 2007. Sayer appeared in one episode of the Inspector Morse spin off ""Lewis"" as Anna Mallory in early 2007. Later that year, Sayer appeared in ""EastEnders"" when Ian Beale was searching for his ex-wife. She has also appeared in various"
"Cindy killed off, saying that keeping her alive ""might have benefitted the show"" but it would have required Collins to commit to three days of filming to depict the birth of Cindy's baby and the outcome of her trial, because ""No proper producer could allow off-screen portrayal of massive Soap Events like those"". However, Collins never committed to the episodes and Robinson had no choice but to kill the character off-screen. Cindy Beale Cindy Beale (also Williams) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Michelle Collins who made her first appearance on 10 May 1988"
"form a minstrel act in 1879 called the Fairy Bell troupe, comprising her siblings. Lloyd and the troupe made their début at a mission in Nile Street, Hoxton, in 1880 and followed this with an appearance at the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission later the same year. Costumed by Matilda, they toured local doss-houses in East London, where they performed temperance songs, teaching people the dangers of alcohol abuse. Eager to show off his daughter's talent, John secured her unpaid employment as a table singer at the Eagle Tavern in Hoxton, where he worked as a waiter. Among the songs"
"cream store in Peekskill, NY. At the age of 19, Snyder, became obsessed with the idea of bringing a version of gelato to New York City. In May 1984, Snyder eventually quit school, raised $25,000 from family and friends and, with Grady and her sister Christine's help, opened a small shop at 451 Broome Street in the SoHo area of Manhattan. Their focus was on building a wholesale business as they canvassed NY restaurants with samples, trying to build a sustainable year-round enterprise. In five years, they built a substantial clientele of chefs which included Charlie Palmer of the River"
"revealed that she was bullied while at stage school, by children who teased her for being ""geeky"". Instead, she attended a local girls' private school (Peterborough and Saint Margaret's School) in Stanmore NW London and went to dance, singing and acting classes outside school. Turner's earliest work included appearances on stage and in advertisements (notably a Haribo advert). In 2004, Turner went on to audition for the role of Demi Miller in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". Though she failed to get that part, she was instead given the role of Stacey, a new addition to the popular Slater family."
"Cindy Beale Cindy Beale (also Williams) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Michelle Collins who made her first appearance on 10 May 1988 before leaving in 1990, returning in 1992 and making her final appearance on 10 April 1998. Cindy always has an eye for the lotharios of Walford and despite trying to settle down repeatedly with the more reliable Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt), she is unable to remain faithful to him. She has a selfish streak, often more concerned about her own needs than her family's. She often lies and schemes, particularly where"
"visited frequently by the Queen Victoria. In 1846, an amateur performance of Ben Jonson’s ""Every Man in his Humour"" included Charles Dickens playing Captain Bobadil. In 1846, the Ethiopian Serenaders infected London with the American craze for minstrel shows, a form of entertainment which was to remain popular until the turn of the century. Not long afterwards, the Christy Minstrels opened in London at the theatre on 3 August 1857 before moving to other venues. Their success led to the phrase ""Christy Minstrels"" coming to mean any blackface minstrel show. F. C. Burnand produced his first major play at the"
"of him. They find Mandy, who has been using Ian's credit card to pay for her mother's funeral. Mandy denies knowing where Ian is and she vows to make a success of her life, stating it is ""time to grow up"". Mandy was one of several introductions to the cast of ""EastEnders"" in 1992. Executive producer Leonard Lewis took a tentative approach to introducing new characters in 1992. Most were introduced gradually, making an initial appearance and then joining the programme full-time a couple of months later. This allowed the producers and writers to create new characters and see them"
"used their $8,000 savings to open a 9,600 square foot store in a second floor loft in Port Chester, NY. They named it Caldor, a blending of their first names. Specializing in name-brand hard goods such as home furnishings, appliances, electronics, jewelry, and sports equipment for middle to upper income yet bargain-conscious consumers. Their slogan, “Where Shopping Is Always a Pleasure,” was more of a way of life for the Caldor team. Carl Bennett, who had been working as a wholesale liquor salesman for a Connecticut company, was born and raised in retail. His father owned a small grocery store"
"Street scam for a newspaper article. This builds up a conflict between the pair, with Daniel making it clear that he intends to expose his involvement of the scam while Phelan promises to ""hurt him"" should he pursue his ambition. Phelan eventually catches Daniel and his boss Cindy Watson (Esther Hall) in a passionate position, and, upon realizing that Cindy is married, ensures that her husband Ross (Anthony Brophy) catches her and Daniel dining at the Bistro, thus stopping Daniel from investigating the story any further. However, Daniel's curiosity leads Phelan to Vinny's mother; Flora McArdle (Eileen Davies). It transpires"
"the channel during that period. The soap was also heavily politicised. Bobby Grant (Ricky Tomlinson), a militant trade-unionist anti-hero, was the most overtly political character. Storylines were often more sensationalist than on other soaps (throughout the soap's history, there were two armed sieges on the street) and were staged with more violence (particularly, rape) often being featured. In 1985, the BBC's ""EastEnders"" debuted and became a near instant success with viewers and critics alike, with the first episode attracting over 17 million viewers. The Christmas Day 1986 episode was watched by 30.15 million viewers and contained a scene in which"
"Charles Callender Charles Callender was the owner of blackface minstrel troupes that featured African American performers. Although a tavern owner by trade, he entered show business in 1872 when he purchased Sam Hague's Slave Troupe of Georgia Minstrels. Renaming them Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels, he and his business manager, Charles Hicks, followed the lead of other showmen such as J.H. Haverly and advertised the troupe far and wide. Callender's Minstrels played to packed houses and positive reviews in the Midwest and Northeast. Over time, the Callender name came to signify ""black minstrelsy"", and when rival troupes tried to appropriate it,"
"Nina Harris was introduced in 1999 by producer Matthew Robinson. Former model Troy Titus-Adams was given the role after initially being lined up to audition for the part of Lisa Shaw, which eventually went to Lucy Benjamin. She has commented, ""the ""EastEnders"" role came out of the blue. My agent called me while I was in the US, to tell me that they were look for new characters, so I flew back for an audition. Initially I auditioned for the role of market inspector Lisa (played by Lucy Benjamin), but was offered the part of Nina"". She has claimed that"
"BBC Store part of the ""EastEnders Christmas Classics 2"" set but also available individually, and was available until the BBC Store closed on 1 November 2017. CivvyStreet ""CivvyStreet"" (sometimes written as ""Civvy Street"") is a spin-off episode of the British television soap opera ""EastEnders"", broadcast on BBC1 on 26 December 1988. The episode is a flashback to World War II and is set in Christmas 1942. The episode was watched by 7 million viewers. Lou Beale (Karen Meagher) and her husband Albert Beale (Gary Olsen) are celebrating their marriage in Walford, and planning their happy life together when war is"
"December 1988, the first ""EastEnders"" ""bubble"" was shown, titled ""CivvyStreet"". Since then, ""Return of Nick Cotton"" (2000), ""Ricky & Bianca"" (2002), ""Dot's Story"" (2003), ""Perfectly Frank"" (2003) and ""Pat and Mo"" (2004) have all been broadcast, each episode looking into lives of various characters and revealing part of their backstories or lives since leaving ""EastEnders"". In 1993, the two-part story ""Dimensions in Time"", a charity cross-over with ""Doctor Who"", was shown. In 1998, ""EastEnders Revealed"" was launched on BBC Choice (now BBC Three). The show takes a look behind the scenes of the ""EastEnders"" and investigates particular places, characters or"
"years. He initially joined the series as a semi-regular character, first appeared in September of that year, but was so popular that during 1988 he became a full-time cast member as his character became landlord of the Queen Vic pub, buying it from Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) during 1988. The part of Butcher earned Reid the public persona of being pessimistic that he enjoyed acting against, for instance in television adverts for the soft drink Oasis. His character was involved in many popular storylines over the years and the most famous of these storylines was his character's long turbulent relationship"