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On 21 Juneit was announced that Coulson had decided to leave. Speaking of her departure she said: "I've had a fantastic time playing the formidable Carol Jackson and although I'll miss everything about EastEndersI feel the time is right for me to move on". The episode was watched by 5. Carol is soon forced to eastenders lindsey coulson parent her childhood sweetheart, David Wicks Michael Frenchthat he is Bianca's father when it looks like they are about to start a relationship.

David agrees to keep this a secret from Bianca, but is forced to tell her when she tries to seduce him. However, Alan grows jealous of Carol's renewed friendship with David and embarks on an affair with singer Frankie Pierre Syan Blakemoving out of the Jacksons' house, leaving Carol to reignite a romance with David. Both affairs are short lived and Carol and Alan soon reunite.

Billie is the only witness to an armed robbery and is kidnapped to prevent him from testifying in court. He is eventually returned safely, but Carol and the rest of her family bar Bianca are placed in a witness protection programme and move away from Walford for their safety. In her time away, Carol separates from Alan due to his mental breakdown and starts a relationship with Dan Sullivan Craig Fairbrass.

Carol, Robbie and Sonia return to Walford with Dan, and it is revealed that Dan was in a relationship with Bianca when she was 15 and he was married. Bianca keeps this a secret from Carol, but they begin an affair during a family holiday. The affair only ends when Carol becomes pregnant with Dan's baby; however, Carol finds an old photo of Bianca and Dan and quizzes him about it.

He tells only part of the truth and says that they had a relationship long before he ever met Carol. Carol believes this but is angry at Bianca for not telling her. Carol confronts Bianca who reveals the affair, not knowing what Dan had said. She aborts Dan's child and leaves Albert Square in October to care for her critically ill mother, Reenie Joy Grahamwho eventually dies.

She tends to her father in following his stroke, but remains estranged from Bianca and her children. Carol turns up uninvited to Bianca and Ricky's second wedding to stop her son Billie attending. Despite initial animosity, Carol and Bianca make amends for the past and Carol moves back to Walford, having lost her job in Balham as a school secretary.

Billie and Carol regularly clash regarding Carol's controlling parenting and Billie's connection with a gang. When a gang member attempts to shoot Billie, Carol's brother Jack Scott Maslen is accidentally shot instead. Blaming himself, Billie joins the army and despite initial opposition, Carol gives her blessing.

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Billie is given leave on his birthday, so Carol arranges a party for him and his friends. Copious amounts of alcohol are consumed by Billie and the next day he is found dead on the settee. Distraught, Carol pushes away her family, suggesting they are responsible for Billie's death, until her brother Max Jake Wood tells her Billie only joined the army to get away from her.

When Carol sees a video on Billie's laptop in which he says she is a control freak and wants her to die, she is devastated. She bans her family from attending Billie's funeral, and it is only she, Alan and Blossom who attend. In her grief, Carol attempts to kiss Alan, but he rejects her as he is now married with a young son. Connor sleeps with Carol and Whitney behind the other's back, until Bianca finds out and attacks Connor with a metal pole.

Bianca is imprisoned and Connor's mother Kendra Sharon D. Clarke warns Carol to leave Connor alone. Old feelings resurface between Carol and David when he returns to Walford in after years away, to visit his dying mother Pat Pam St Clement. Derek now Jamie Foreman still loathes David because of the rivalry in their youth over David getting Carol pregnant; he forbids Carol and David's reunion.

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David's feud with Derek escalates to violence. After convincing Carol to leave Walford with him, David changes his mind when he sees how much their grandchildren need her; he devastates Carol by leaving without her. Upon being released from prison, Bianca struggles to support her family and gets into debt. In desperation, she steals money from a market trader; the police are called and Bianca is sent back to prison, in Suffolk, for six months.

Wanting to be near Bianca, Carol temporarily moves to Suffolk with her grandchildren. She returns to prepare for Bianca's return and discovers Derek is using the house for criminal activities. She orders him to get rid of his merchandise, but he just stocks it in the garage. Derek dies of a heart attack. Bianca objects and Masood breaks up the relationship on Carol's behalf.

Carol and Masood then arrange another date and eventually their relationship becomes more serious. David returns to Walford penniless, so Carol allows him to stay at her house. David attempts to charm Carol again, and tries to interfere in her romance with Masood. This does not work initially and Carol moves in with Masood, but soon moves out.

Carol finds a lump in her breast and is diagnosed with breast cancer. She then resumes her relationship with David. After ending her relationship with Masood and a heated argument between David and Masood, Carol visits Sonia and her daughter Rebecca Jasmine Armfield to tell her about the cancer. Carol worries about being tested for the BRCA2 gene, rebuffing David's advances and rejecting his marriage proposal, though this leads to David inadvertently revealing to her friends and neighbours that she has cancer.

David kisses Nikki Spraggan Rachel Wilde but accepts Carol's later proposal of marriage and moves back in with her. Carol tests positive for the gene, and her daughters are also tested.

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Sonia has inherited the gene, causing tension between her and Bianca and Carol, who is undergoing intensive chemotherapy, is forced to step in, but she collapses. Carol is told she has an infection because of her weak immune system, but is released and recovers ahead of her upcoming wedding. On the day of the wedding, David disappears to find her "something blue", and Carol believes he is scared by the idea of commitment and jilted her.

However, he has suffered a heart attack. Distraught, Carol shares a heart to heart with her long-time employer Ian Beale Adam Woodyatt and realises that she and David must be honest with each other. Carol visits David in hospital but they argue and she decides that they cannot continue their relationship. After sharing one last dance to " Misty Blue " — the "something blue" David had promised — he moves out of the home and leaves Walford.

When Carol is due to undergo her mastectomyBianca persuades her to only have a single mastectomy. Bianca reveals that the family are in debt, so Carol goes back to work and sells some of her and her family's possessions. Carol confides in her eastenders lindsey coulson parent Tina Carter Luisa Bradshaw-White about her money problems, and Tina proposes that they sell marijuana.

Carol is appalled but later accepts the proposal because of the debt. Carol and Bianca then attend Sonia's health class, where many of the locals try to persuade Carol to have a double mastectomy. This infuriates Carol, but after talking to Pam Coker Lin Blakleyshe decides to have a double mastectomy, much to Sonia's delight, and calls off her marijuana deal with Tina.

While Carol is preparing for her operation, Bianca gets in trouble with social services when Liam accidentally gives Tiffany hash brownies to take to school for the last day of term. Carol furiously threatens to expose Tina's deals to help Bianca get social services off her back, exposing Tina's actions to her devastated girlfriend, Fiona "Tosh" Mackintosh Rebecca Scroggs.

The actress, who became known for her regular cries of 'Rickaaaaaay' on the soap, left the show in The mother-of-four, who has been married twice, collected numerous awards for her role, but left the show for a final time in after returning for two brief guest stints, during which time she was joined by her original on-screen family members. Patsy has admitted to battling drug and alcohol addiction in her autobiography, and now her home is an alcohol-free zone.

Lindsey Coulson first appeared in the soap 22 years ago as Carol Jackson along with her family. She enjoyed three stints before leaving in Arriving in the square along with her son Robbie 22 years ago, Carol Jackson was a key character for four years. She returned for a brief stint inwhich coincided with the departure of her on-screen daughter Bianca.

It would be another 11 years before Carol returned to Albert Square, and in she left for a third time after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Lindsey won a soap award for the harrowing storyline around the death of her character's youngest son, Billie, who died from alcohol poisoning at his 22nd birthday party. Coulson swapped her eastenders lindsey coulson parent bleached blonde hair for brown locks to play a detective in ITV drama The Level in Natalie Cassidy first appeared in EastEnders in as trumpet playing Sonia.

The actress has always been in the public eye for her weight loss journey and her reality TV series. Natalie Cassidy has had an on-off relationship with EastEnders, first appearing as Sonia Jackson from before returning briefly in and again in Sonia returned permanently inwith Natalie now back on our screens after taking maternity leave from the show last year.

The actress was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing inand ventured into the Celebrity Big Brother house three years later. She also released a fitness DVD after dramatically slimming down, but later said she regretted the decision because it prompted yo-yo dieting and put her health at risk. The mother-of-two also had her own Channel 4 reality series called Becoming Mum, which aired in Devon Anderson played young Billie before he left in He returned along with his original on-screen family members in before his character died of alcohol poisoning.

Billie Jackson was the youngest member of the Jackson family, played by Devon Anderson between InMax and Tanya had a daughter, Laurenand they married later that year, two years later having another daughter, Abi. Alan was the father of her youngest child Billie, and Carol and her three other children had taken his surname, as he was a father and husband figure to them all.

Carol's four children had four different fathers. David Wicks was the father of Bianca, who arrived to live in Albert Square in the same year as the Jacksons, Bianca not knowing he was her father. A man called Terry Cant was Sonia's father, who she did not know and never met, and Gary Bolton was Robbie's father, who lived with Carol, Bianca and Robbie as Carol's boyfriend but later left them after he got another woman pregnant with his second son Kevin.

Bianca started a relationship with Ricky Butcher. Bianca's immature behaviour led Ricky to begin an affair with Bianca's best friend Natalie Price. When the affair was revealed, the relationship ended and she started to see a new potential love interest in David Wicks but was devastated when he was revealed to be her father after a teenage fling with Carol in Despite her initial upset, Bianca built a paternal bond with David.

This led her back into the arms of Ricky and they got engaged in The two married in and Bianca fell pregnant with Ricky's child who they intended to call Natasha. However, after a test it was discovered that the unborn baby was suffering from spina bifida and Ricky and Bianca made the heartbreaking decision to abort it. Bianca fell pregnant again and gave birth to baby Liam in The Queen Vic.

April got engaged to a Greek man called Nikos whom she met in Greece after she worked and lived there. The wedding was supposed to take place in April but Nikos jilted April at the altar. He asked her to marry him again and they eventually left Walford and managed to marry him at the second attempt. It has since been revealed that April still lives in Greece with him.

Alan eventually grew tired of life with Carol and started an affair with singer Frankie Pierre but when it came out he and Carol separated. Carol then tried to make a go of things with her old flame David, Bianca's father. This soon ended and she and Alan reunited but they split up yet again when Alan suffered a nervous breakdown.

Carol then became engaged to Dan Sullivan and became pregnant with his child but after he and Bianca started an affair, Carol had the baby aborted and called off the engagement. Carol then moved away and reunited yet again with Alan and is now living with him, their son Billie, and Alan's grandmother Blossom Jackson. Jim started a slow burning romance with Dot Cotton and he revealed to Dot he and Reenie never really loved each other and spent their entire married lives arguing.

After much chasing, Dot finally agreed to marry Jim, and the two lived together in 25 Albert Square. In Sonia had underage sex with Martin Fowler and she gave birth to baby Chloe in her living room, not knowing she was pregnant. Sonia decided to put the child up for adoption despite opposition from Martin's mother Pauline. He used this money to take a tour of India and pay for Sonia's nursing course.

When he returned he started a relationship with widow Nita Mistry. When she decided to return to India so her parents could help her bring up Anishas she was struggling, Robbie decided to leave with her.

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When Sonia discovered that Chloe's adoptive parents Neil and Sue Miller were both killed in a car crash she tracked down her daughter, now called Rebecca, and made visits to her at adoptive grandmother Margaret Wilson 's house. When Sonia revealed her true identity to Margaret she threw her out, and Martin and Sonia agreed to not visit again.

When Pauline discovered their secret however, she started making her own visits to Rebecca and even tried to win custody of her at one point, but Sonia convinced her that Rebecca was best off with her adoptive grandmother. Sonia left Martin when she started a lesbian relationship with Naomi Julienmuch to Jim's fury. Martin and Sonia later tried to get guardianship of Rebecca in case anything happened to Margaret, but after learning of Sonia's new relationship, Margaret gave Martin sole custody.

Margaret later died and Rebecca went to live with the Fowlers, but Pauline's meddling ways stopped Sonia building any sort of relationship with her daughter. Sonia's relationship with Naomi stopped and she eventually got back together with Martin behind Pauline's back. When Pauline died on Christmas Day, Sonia became a suspect in her murder but when the killer was revealed to be Joe MacerSonia, Martin and Rebecca left Walford together to tour the United States and live with Michelle Fowler knows Rose trying to make a Plan for killing William Branning he said that they had a great experience for me to get his hands on it, and I think it would be a lot of bad news is that Kieran did not want to be able to get a little bit of everything from my own life in House of Representatives from and his brother William and Ronnie and her Sister Roxy saw their Cousin Sam having an affair with William his on bed.

Max moved his family to Walford later that year, wanting to build a relationship with Bradley again, which he did despite his rivalry with his father Jim. In December of that year, Max started an affair with his son's ex-girlfriend Stacey Slaterwho later became his daughter-in-law. Inhe had a fling with his girlfriend Ronnie Mitchell's sister Roxy she became pregnant and later gave birth to a premature baby girl telling everybody that the father was her husband Sean Slater.

Roxy then admitted that Jack was, in fact, the dad. In Bianca returns to Walford with her family and is followed soon after by Ricky. The show's executive producer, Diederick Santerdescribed the wedding as "the perfect opportunity" to bring the characters back to the show. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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