A much-loved EastEnders couple is set to get divorced following a shocking confrontation in recent scenes.
Jack Branning and Denise Fox (Scott Maslen and Diane Parish) have faced plenty of challenges during their marriage, but Jack’s affair with Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) has proved to be the final nail in the coffin.
Their marriage has been rocked over the years by a number of betrayals and family issues, and things have been on rocky ground for a while.
When Denise found out that Jack and Stacey had slept together before Christmas, she was devastated but prepared to give Jack another chance, under the assumption that it was a one off.
However, Martin Fowler (James Bye) recently dropped the bombshell that they were still having an affair, leaving Denise heartbroken.
Denise has never been a character to back down, so it was hardly a surprise when she decided that she wanted to give things another go for the sake of the children.
Daughter Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams) couldn’t understand Denise’s position, but she was adamant that she had made up her mind.
However, when she returned home, step-children Amy and Ricky Mitchell (Ellie Dadd and Frankie Day) were shocked to see her, and admitted that they didn’t think she should take Jack back.
They made it clear that she would still be their step-mum if she and Jack split up, with Amy pointing out that Denise wouldn’t want her to date someone who had cheated on her.
With this new perspective, Denise told Jack that she wanted a divorce, leaving him devastated.
She explained that she was tired of them constantly going round in circles, and it was time for them to call it quits.
She revealed that she and Raymond were going to move in with Chelsea, and that Amy and Ricky will be allowed to visit whenever they want.
EastEnders fans are “so sick” of Dean Wicks (Matt Di Angelo) and are begging for him to be killed off as he continued his twisted plan to keep his daughter Jade Green (Elizabeth Green) close during last night’s episode (Tuesday, March 19).
After cystic fibrosis sufferer Jade told Dean that she was moving to Pakistan with her mum Shabnam Masood (Rakhee Thakrar), Dean insisted it was too soon after her lung transplant.
Jade reassured him she’d be fine but when she came down with a chest infection, he made it his mission to stop her from leaving the country by resorting to evil measures.
Knowing her doctor’s advice would be to stay in the UK until her infection cleared up, Dean started opening Jade’s pill capsules and emptying the contents down the sink.
Dean has continued to cruelly tamper with Jade’s antibiotics, wanting to keep her ill to stop her from going to live in Pakistan.
Jade’s health has continued to spiral and in last night’s episode, Dean was in a panic after Jade looked on his phone and discovered that he had loads of missed calls and texts from her worried mum Shabnam.
Jean Slater (Gillian Wright), who has been helping Jade organise a charity auction, confronted Dean and he lied that he had been dodging Shabnam’s calls because Jade needed to focus on her recovery and not get distracted by Shabnam promising her the world.
Jean said that Shabnam is just phoning to see how her sick daughter is, to which Dean snapped back: “Oh, it’s all right for her over in Pakistan, getting on with life. Meanwhile, I’m left here looking after our sick kid. And by the way, going behind my back and calling the doctor doesn’t exactly help. Did you see how panicked he made Jade? He got her all worked up for nothing.”
Jean insisted that the doctor should have given her new antibiotics and Dean confessed that he felt “useless.”
When Dean went to check on a terribly ill Jade, she was annoyed that he hadn’t been responding to her mum’s calls. Dean’s explanation didn’t add up and Jade pointed out that Shabnam knows she’s not well enough to travel yet.
“Just start acting like the responsible adult will you?” Jade said to Dean.
Fans continued to be sickened by villain Dean’s actions and want him to be killed off…
