Why does phil mitchell limp

If you say so. I'm not in his target audience and unless he starts making documentaries or appearing in sci-fi shows he's never likely to be anything more to me than that bloke that plays Phil Mitchell on the programme I never ever watch. Highly doubtful unless people were previously going without food. As with Wal-Mart in the States, all Kwik Save does is replace jobs in less efficient - "local shops for local people" with lower paid jobs in larger outlets.

What you gain in lower prices, you lose in jobs and wages overall. Well, it isn't doubtful, as it is actually fact. You can have more than one supermarket in one area you know. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Now at this point I'm thinking what a complete arsehole. To add insult to every other road users the arsehole decides to double park causing mayhem.

Dom Robinson. Nans get all the fun jobs without the hassle of having the kids live with you for 18 years. Not so much. The only one that has stuck around has been Ben. Oh, and a murderer. The misery of Eastenders certainly sticks in my brain more than the comedy bits this is frequently a blessing. After all, Pat had a rather complicated relationship with her giant brood. Her death provided some amazing moments as the people of the Square who viewed her as a mother figure came to terms with their relationships with her.

With rumours of Grant and possibly Sam coming home to say their goodbyes only to be met with a drunken Phil and a new Louise we can expect some extreme shouting and some snotty crying.

Maybe even some punching! Whether you measure it in catchphrases or fashion choices, she is one of the most iconic women in soap. You can insert your own platitude about her being tiny in stature but big in status here. You get the idea. Her style of motherhood equates love with control — with an extra dose of shouting. You can grab yourself a card or a tote bag handmade by myself from my Etsy shop. She may be departing E20 forever, but now you can always wear her on your arm and fill her with your shopping.

And by transcending modern fashion, she ends up dictating it. Change your accessories, sure, but keep the staple items, whether it is a fag, a pillbox hat, that burgundy bouffant or a little shift dress. The media waffle on about Princess Anne wearing the same frock twice, but when will Dorothy get the recognition she deserves?

This woman knows how to treat her clothes so they last, and how to combine them with different items to create different looks. Her vintage chic is so all-encompassing she still lives by rules of the Make Do And Mend lifestyle. Being in jail for not-really-killing your troublesome son is a real downer, especially when you genuinely feel guilty about it too.

The sunshine and joy radiates from her. Dot sticks to colours that suit her, ignoring the people who say the older generation should melt into the background.

Even that weird yellow strap that prisoners wear is this a real life thing? What does it do? Someone could be looking at you like that if you wear the right shade of red. Curlers and patience. What scam is he trying to pull? Phil Mitchell would never listen to New Order. More of a meaningful US rock man, I bet. REO Speedwagon. Or Limp Biskit. We talk in a functional, strip-lit green room just off the EastEnders set. It's 6. He settles into a sofa in his dark blue polo shirt and jeans, and explains that actually, in those days, he did more than just check the occasional New Order concert: he used to drive up and down the country to see them with his mate Danny, a mad fan.

EastEnders fitted in with your life. Now, your life definitely has to fit in with this. There doesn't seem much time to stop. McFadden will have even less time to stop, as of next week, when EastEnders increases its weekly episodes from three to four making the Sunday omnibus a Gone With The Wind epic.

This comes on top of a purple period for the soap, with producers and writers injecting life into a once-tired format by introducing new families such as the Slaters and twisting long-established characters into previously unimagined situations. The reward: EastEnders is now the nation's most popular soap regularly trouncing Coronation Street.

Everyone on the show is working flat-out trying to fill in the extra half-hour. And, as one of Walford's most prominent residents the 'Who Shot Phil? Not that he hasn't been busy anyway: what with being shot, and diddling the court case, and a kidnapping coming up Then Phil was the quieter half of a double act with his brother Grant, and McFadden recalls getting weeks off, or days at least.

Even when he was needed, he didn't have so much to say. Still, McFadden's up for all the extra work. Today he's been stoking a burgeoning re-romance with Sharon, and doing a lot of 'physical stuff' to do with the kidnapping Dan nabs Mel, and Steve and Phil join forces to track them down. You know, when you're on your fourth wife, and you've lost four children One of the prerequisites of any character in the show is to have a very short memory.

Like, the week before the kidnapping, me and Steve are rowing, but by Monday evening, 8. He says he learnt quickly not to let character inconsistencies worry him. A couple of years into EastEnders, Phil married a Romanian refugee, and Steve 'pulled my hair out' trying to make sense of it.

It's the writers' job to throw stuff at you and it's your job to go, watch this, I will make it work. Except Phil himself has changed. Once the decent straight guy to Grant's selfish thug, Phil Mitchell has become, over the last year, Walford's Nasty Git. But McFadden understands why. Phil's been had over by a lot of people, so now he feels like he can do it back. It's his history. Soap stars carry a lot of it. Which McFadden enjoys: 'A flick of an eye at the appropriate character is meaningful, when you've had five years with that person.

It's one of the most underrated aspects of acting on a soap. When I was at drama school you'd do these exercises, and this is like a year exercise for me of in-depth living of one particular character.

It's a luxury. Can you see the difference between Phil and Steve yet, viewers? Steve is - and who would have thought it? Not in the mwa-mwa-fabulous way, but in the way he analyses and works at his character.

Steve is a proper act-or: he went to Rada. And personally, I think - like many of the EastEnders regulars - he's far better than our nation's theatre darlings.

You just need to watch Sheila Hancock's recent EastEnders' cameo appearance to see that. Her insistence on wringing the emotion from every single word in a sentence just seemed ridiculously hammy next to the subtleties of Martin Kemp's performance.

Out-acted by a member of Spandau Ballet. The shame. Anyway, McFadden talks like a pro of 'monitoring' when he works, getting the balance between the mechanics and the emotion. You can't pretend that.