EastEnders News

Miliband was "Iron Ed" in smartly outmanoeuvring the bankers' friend David Cameron over Stephen Hester's 1m welfare handout.

At 44, the soap star, who plays Sharon Watts, has ditched the dodgy hairdos and piles of slap and undergone a remarkable transformation.

The actress, who plays Sharon Watts, was last seen on the soap in 2006 as a widow following the death of her on-screen husband Dennis Rickman .

But eight months on, Natalie Cassidy is believed to have reconciled with her ex-fiance Adam Cotterell - as friends claim they have also rekindled their romance.

It appears the producers of EastEnders have enjoyed seeing past characters return to the square so much they have decided to do it again.

Full casting has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory 's production of Abigail's Party - and joining Jill Halfpenny as Beverly will be Joe Absolom as Tony, Natalie Casey as Angela, Susannah Harker as Susan, and Andy Nyman as Laurence.

He ruined their wedding day last August by sending an explicit picture of his wife-to-be to an ex-girlfriend. But Jessie Wallace's ex-fiance is convinced he can win her back and has revealed the former couple have started up a dialogue.

EXHAUSTED Jessie Wallace has been written out of EastEnders as she continues to struggle with the heartbreak of last summer's cancelled wedding.

The most highly-contested award of the National Television Awards - that of Continuing Drama aka Soap - was won by 'Coronation Street' this year, reported the website Huffington Post.

ANITA DOBSON will not be persuading husband Brian May on to the dancefloor to help her rehearse for her Echo Arena appearance.

But this year's ceremony at London's O2 Arena was the classiest yet - with most of the big names choosing floor-length numbers in subtle colours.

" Life's Too Short ," from Gervais and Stephen Merchant, is a fictional documentary about Davis' life as a little person who's down on his luck, struggling to get back into the spotlight.

EASTENDERS' Jacqueline Jossa wants critics of binge-drink teens to lay off them - saying many turn to alcohol to cope with serious problems.

It has long-since been one of my favorite shows and I own quite a few of them on DVD and probably will collect the rest at some point.

Digital Spy soaps editor Daniel Kilkelly rounds up the very latest news, gossip and pictures from Britain's biggest soaps.

Former EastEnders star Pam St Clement is set to appear on The Daily Show with Claire Byrne and Daithi O'Se today.

EastEnders ' Jane Beale gets a pleasant surprise as she lands a lucrative job opportunity in tonight's episode of the soap.

ITV1 love match show 'Take Me Out' drew an average audience of 4.6 million viewers on Saturday night after a week of embarrassing revelations about the backgrounds of contestants.

EastEnders actress Laila Morse became the second celebrity to exit Dancing on Ice after she lost a skate-off against former child actor Corey Feldman.

Dancing On Ice slides back into all our nightmares and Christopher Dean desperately declares: "We've got some great characters." When the big news is that Keith Chegwin and Chesney Hawkes have been forced to pull out due to injury you know ITV's flunkies are scraping the very bottom of the celebrity barrel.