Dirty Den gives Angie divorce papers for Christmas - EastEnders - BBC

[dwightjmb]

rest in peace patty

[galidorismylife]

Happy Christmas, Ange ! Love that moment

[ghtjdjdhfjeosnvcurth]

Dirty Den was the magnificent bastard of Albert Square.

[MidlandNinja]

What song was playing in the background?

[djjwilliams]

bloody hell, Dot looks so different lol

[owendude12383]

One word .............. (Iconic)

[ismaelkhan]

I was only 9 months old when this was being aired but bloody hell - this is TRUE eastenders, i really did used to enjoy this back in the good old days of pure nicam stereo analouge tv :) but now its all modern bullshit! long live the 80's/and even some of the 90's lol!

[AllsortPassport]

this is one of them moments when you know you've been totally found out and they only thing you can do is go : /

[deaconredwhiteandblu]

Den was fit <3

[Kaynas1988]

Wasn't the reason why Den divorced Angie was because she lied to him about having six months live

[thedoctorand]

@Kaynas1988 This is stated in the clip, I believe.

[Kaynas1988]

Angie's face when Den shows her the divorce papers all I can say is good one Den, now please return

[seano66]

@Kaynas1988 I doubt he'll be back a third time given the outcome of the second!

[crimpoleneman]

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[A5HLEYHALLOW51]

Dirty Den is the Don of "Eastender's".

[Pulpedtoafiction31]

Fucking classic,lol.

[supermarvboy]

best christmas gift ever

divorce papers order now

[dljc1979]

STRAIGHT TO MY FAVOURITES..

[channysocute]

OMG POSH EE + YOUNG PAT EVANS: CORINATION STREET D:

[bradsylo]

what the fuck was that woman with the massive shell as an earing doing!

[Kaynas1988]

Wish I was born when this happened

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 I wish I was born too when Angie and Den was in EastEnders :)

[Kaynas1988]

@torvillanddean100 When EastEnders was great, now I'm not so sure

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 I agree :( If @EastEnders brought Angie and Den Watts back with Sharon the ratings would be higher and alot of people would be happy to see the Watts family back again and in the Queen Vic again too :D

[Kaynas1988]

@torvillanddean100 Yeah the ratings would be higher and me for one would so watch it

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 Me too :D

They brought Den Watts back before and if the writers for @EastEnders could put there minds together and come up with away to bring Angie and Den back again that would be brillant! :D

[Kaynas1988]

@torvillanddean100 Yeah it would be and it would also be watchable

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 I watched a clip where Anita Dobson who played Angie Watts said something about when Angie died they didnt show Angies body and that the coffin could of been empty so really Angie could come back to EastEnders and say she was on witness protection and thats why people thought Angie was dead!

Iam sure @EastEnders could come up with another idea to bring Den back as they have done before :D

I really hope @EastEnders will bring Angie and Den Watts back with Sharon one day :D

[Kaynas1988]

@torvillanddean100 OK, and yeah and If I'm honest I much prefer the old episode of EastEnders, the only thing I reckon that was worth watchable after Den's return was when Peggy left

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 I agree I perfer the old episodes to what they show now and if they did bring back Angie and Den with Sharon it would make EastEnders better again! :D

I think if EastEnders came up with a brillant storyline for them both and Sharon to come back they would probably say yes to coming back! :D

Have you seen the photos of Anita Dobson on the set of EastEnders with her dancing partner on Strictly Come Dancing? would be better if she was on EastEnders :D

[Kaynas1988]

@torvillanddean100 Yeah it will and no I had no clue she was on Strictly Come Dancing but I still say she would be better on EastEnders

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 This is the link of Anita on the set of EastEnders & standing outside the Queen Vic :D

w ww.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a­rticle-2063096/Strictly-Come-D­ancing-2011-Anita-Dobson-takes­-partner-Robin-Windsor-Waltz-A­lbert-Square.html

I heard that in todays or sundays Strictly Come Dancing they will show a clip of Anita going back to the set of EastEnders :D

At first when I saw the story I thought it was about Anita going back to EastEnders & was disappointed that shes not :(

[torvillanddean100]

@Kaynas1988 Are you going to watch Anita on Strictly Come Dancing today on BBC1 at 6:55pm and then again tomorrow for the results show to see who goes and who stays?

Iam hoping Anita will win Strictly Come Dancing this year :D

Have you ever met Anita or Leslie Grantham before?

Afew years ago I saw Leslie Grantham when me and my mum went to see Celebrity Family Fortunes with some past EastEnders cast but wish Anita was there too :D

[Kaynas1988]

@torvillanddean100 I probably won't be watching it or the results show, I have never met them in real life but I would love to meet them along with other celebs

[nov3019892008]

pauline and pat looked so different back then

[pufferfishish]

30, 000, 000 people watched this when it aired. Those numbers for a TV show would be almost unheard of today.

[GAC1984]

@pufferfishish correct this show got around 30 million viewers when it was shown Christmas Day 1986. The highest ever for a UK TV audience.

[elijahhandley]

if there is one eastenders moment that beats ""you ain't my mother"... it's this

[kpdi]

this was more watched the princess diana's funeral

[GarFangleAndTheGoods]

Gawd bless 'em! Check out our page to hear our new Xmas song - inspired by Den & Angie, Only Fools and Horses and the good old fashioned British Christmas.

[faeriebabysky]

I swear those boxes of crisps have been there against the stairs since the opening episode in 1984 and are still there today, even AFTER the Vic Burnt down lol.. Same boxes, I'm sure of it haha....

[deaconredwhiteandblu]

@faeriebabysky Lol they could use them to kill someone cause they're so mouldy!

[martybhoy72]

Does anyone remember Anita Dobson recording a sinle with Brian May?

[jammaltaz]

that blonde chick in the beginning was from Are You Being Served

[FatknackerMacca]

Pat's blouse looks like wrapping paper lol! Pretty and fair? She got fair right lol! Major faux pas from Lofty, Pauline's face lol! Dot looks like a bloke! Nice earring Mary lol! They appear to have taken the music from the jukebox off on this clip, got it on my Den & Angie years vid with Alison Moyet's Is This Love playing in the background. EE frequently had appropriate tracks playing in the background of a scene, quite clever. Ange looks physically sick that she's been rumbled lol!

[aviep]

@FatknackerMacca

the track is playing (alison moyet) listen carefully...

[TwinkeTots]

omg dot looks so OLD

[Alan95Haitch]

@TwinkeTots just think, tht was 30 years ago, and shes still on the show, looking even older.

[sargcullen1]

@Alan95Haitch Well, if you're on about Angie Watts then you're wrong. She left the show in late 1988 and returned for a week in January 1989, before finally leaving Walford in a taxicab. She died off-screen in 2002 (her funeral was featured in an episode) at the age of 51 or 52 and she hasn't been on teh show for 20 and half years as of 18th October 2010 Monday.

[Duty281Returns]

See my channel for full episodes from 1985! Episodes 1-21 currently uploaded!

[tosspot86]

why the hell did they have to kill angie off screen she could have come back at some stage

[torvillanddean100]

@tosspot86 I agree I cant believe they written Angie out of EastEnders for good when she could of came back one day! :(

Angie and Den Watts are EastEnders Legends and it would be great if @EastEnders could find another way to bring them both back again! :D

[AdArmand]

Den had its chance, now its Angie's turn to rise again! Pour booze over her grave and watch the magic!

[MsFanmail]

Den and angie were the tops

[joshuabeecroft]

wow pats changes so much!

[tinypuppies3]

If they bring Den and Angie back Eastenders will be the most watched show again.

[Kaynas1988]

@tinypuppies3 Yep, I agree :)

[xeastendersfan1x]

Classic !!

[jinshanling]

Who got custody of Roly?!

[BWCandyGurlXx]

This pub has been to everyone!

[Chattee41]

I was so upset with BBCAmerica. When the channel first came on the air, we could watch EastEnders everyday. Then they pulled it, no warning!

[Robin360]

@Chattee41 Whoa whoa, when was this!?

[Chattee41]

@Robin360 Back when BBCAmerica first started airing in the States. We had Ballykissangel and Eastenders every day...it was just wonderful...then they cut it, and I had been hooked, too! Made me so mad, and my pbs station doesn't carry it.

[ninetalescommander]

Den Watts was the best Eastenders bad guy, if you ask me

[SarahRyan2002]

Watch a funny short film on Youtube, to find it just type in 'sarah ryan deluded' BE WARNED you will either love it or hate it!

[goodgunnerwenger]

"Happy Christmas Ange" Love it!

[DianeMarie5930]

Thanks for posting this early EastEnders! Here in the U.S. we can't watch episodes on the main web site.

[backpackcamera]

there was a episode that's just den and ange arguing the whole episode no-one else is in it just the 2 of them sreaming at each other all over the pub anyone got that?

[east215]

Den was a bastard and Angie was a hoe!

[leahcharliephillips]

lol dots hair

[leahcharliephillips]

yer init he was a laugh this my sweet lol

[MapleAndAnimeCrazy]

Den is the best soap character EVER. Fact

[urbanfreeflow5]

this my SWEET

[dorkandproud]

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[JohnAdams198805]

what was the song called in the background can some 1 tell me please thanks

[freddiem73]

@JohnAdams198805

is this love, alison moyet I think

[mousstard]

after they got divorced, angie married some gutiarist in some british rock band (I think it might be Queen) and he became an alcholic

[CheesyChed09]

Lol uploaded in 1986 :P

[IFINES7x187I]

look wen it was put up loll 1986 :L

[VioletSpanxx]

Pat was hot!...ish lol

[JohnAdams198805]

so was pauline

[bobpearce1958]

Dirty Den and Nick Cotton are bad boys

Following by Sean Slater and Phil Mitchell, Then comes Grant Mitchell, Then comes Archie Mitchell

[Threading30]

nah Den Is the original, than Grant. When Den left, Grant saved and made the show!

[TotallyDramaQueen05]

wait a minute...so angie is married 2 this other guy then she as an affair with this den person n he threw sum sort of christmas celebration n then tell her that her husben's devorcing her??? nasty or wat???

[peediefry]

Angie told Den (who is her husband) that she had 6 months to live, he found out it was a lie so he told her he was going to devorcing her.

[Cinderella73]

if my husband did that to me on christmas day id kick him in the balls haha

[PurpleStarfish213]

Ooh My Gawd - Look at Dot and Pat!

[EWAUltimate]

"Happy Christmas Ang!" lmfao

[xneveigoex]

u shud of put bradleys death

[Amrit1200]

everyone so young

[sharona1981]

Go Den,lol!

[MapleAndAnimeCrazy]

By george look at dot! Ah the young days of eastie, miss em.

[Marky1989N1]

sean killed archire

[Spartanite8307]

no stacie did

[HIStoryEMD]

nope, stacy.

[l0NELYundConfused]

OMFG Look At Pat!!!

[CARBRINE]

i swear this got like 26th on the countdown now its 2nd? 0.o

[purplecarrot123]

wow the vic's wallpaper is UGLY!

[mountainbmx]

we want dirty den to come back from the dead again!

[MeBenHalpin]

@mountainbmx Lol they sure it was defintly his corpse, they dragged from The Vic the 2nd time round, where as they dragged the wrong body from the canal.

[Jamiethewookie]

@mountainbmx He would probably still be on the show if he had not been caught banging one out online.

[Gibbo118]

@Jamiethewookie

Yes, Ironically they employed him in the first place knowing he was a convicted murderer then sacked him for the hideous crime of having a tommy tank on a webcam.

[soapsfans]

this was watched by 30 million viewers

[neiluk1984]

@soapsfans The Xmas movie on ITV must of been awful that year.

[gokuzlova]

much better now and helps people u wud be gobsmacked things they do in eastenders

[saddoproductions]

why does it say uploaded on 25 dec 1986

[xRedRockerx]

@saddoproductions That's when the episode was shown, and it's a relaly classic episode, which once (still might) held the most viewers of a soap. It's like a jokey thing to remember it.

[saddoproductions]

thanks.

[TelevisionAddict2010]

It's weird :S

[14asian]

@saddoproductions HAHA YOUTUBE DIDNT EVEN EXIST THAT LONG XD ^_^

[johngibbs2010]

i used hypercam 2

[JordiTV79]

My goodness. I'm from Barcelona, the catalan public tv (that started its broadcasts in 1983) broadcasted "Eastenders" dubbed to catalan from 1987 (I was 8 at the time) or close. At that time we only had the public spanish tv (with 2 channels), so "Eastenders" had a big, almost huge impact here. 20 years later I still remember that episode and thanks to youtube I can see it with its original voices

[Ownagepranks21]

kl kl

[GoldXrose]

that mary woman! wot kind of earings are those she's wearing i know it was the 80's but you could use them as A FAN!!!!! LMAO

[Jayke1981]

32million watched this! The most famous soap scene in history!

[bmf1706]

And you can see why. Are soaps this good today in Great Britain?

[xRedRockerx]

@bmf1706 Yuhup.

[SamaravsAlma]

Who is the blonde woman at 0:11 not pat the young one?

[VlogKing]

Debbie Wilkins.

[billiepiperlovea]

I don't suppose anyone could upload the clip where Den hit Sharon? I'm not sure what year it was, all I really know was that it's in the 80s. :D

[Kakuoteyalu]

Sorry to be random, but, at 2:23; I think the song in the background is Come On Eileen!

[stephenrankin]

It's "Is this love?" by Alison Moyet!

[Kakuoteyalu]

It is? O.K., like I said, I THOUGHT it was Come on Eileen.

[Izzymoggington]

for me tanya and max are now angie and den any thoughts on this?

[xXxmissemmaxXx]

i see what you mean. relationship wise is den and angie. but i think tanya is much more stonger woman.

[Izzymoggington]

she would be if she did not take max back which we know she always does in the end.

[xXxmissemmaxXx]

yeah but what i mean is tanya tends to get her own back or makes him suffer for a while. where as angie would hit the bottle

[Izzymoggington]

and thats where she got her own back by hitting the bottle.

[jmjmartin]

Now that's when Eastenders was good!!!!

[optimus57]

When this was first broadcast 90 million people watched.

[WateverMyName]

it was 30 million, not 90

[optimus57]

It was 120 million

[taniahurley]

how can that be 120 million? you dont have that many people in the UK..lol

[optimus57]

Every year on Christmas day Victorian era Britain's rise from the grave at the command of Queen Elizabeth II to watch her Christmas speech on tv. They stayed up to watch this afterwards.

[taniahurley]

very well said. though , i am a bit worried if you really blv that by any chance. lol

[MRSeanMacGregor]

@WateverMyName Be better if it was 90 :D

[eXPerienceyeah]

How did we ever get fooled by this crap? Well as a kid I guess I have an excuse, I was brought up on this crap, but now I am an adult I have to laugh at how dire it really is. I swear to god I am going to start making TV programmes, it doesn't take much to hypnotize a nation.

[misstammy93]

eastenders was ma fave soap ever

n the divorce paper on christmas was wikd

it is the best part of a soap in british history!!!

Den (leslie) was an amazing actor!

xxx

[Scrabbler27]

My 1st memory of eastenders is when a black woman and a black man starting snogging and the end credits came on. I don't know who they were but it mustve been screened in the late 1980's.

[elmootube]

omg dot lol

[skaterman12311]

angie looks a bit like little mo

[whatssup321]

Did you know? 30 million people watched this episode

[2sexxyy4u]

this was increadible

think of everything that any british soap has done

murders affairs weddings traggic accidents

and someone handing their wife divorce papers got the highest rateing ever

this is why eastenders ruled

[pmccaff2007]

I didnt watch EE Back then, why did he divorce her?

[buttermereslag]

Ear, thats funny, the first person you see in this clip is Frankie Howard, i didnt know he used to be in it.

[OldSchoolRasslin]

@buttermereslag

I noticed that. I think it must have just been a cameo. Wonder if he knew this scene would become the most famous one in Eastenders history?

[xXxmissemmaxXx]

he says it in that clip, but the back story was, den was gonna run away with his misstress, so angie lied and said she had 6 months to live to keep him from leaving her, then he found out resulting to the divorce.

[mattfrye1]

Well she was a bitter old alcoholic and he fell in love with another woman. She found out and told him she had six monts to live to guilt him into staying. He learned the truth and filed for divorce. She later died of alcohol poisoning in 2002, and he was murdered by his second wife, Chrissie, in 2005.

[madpat2007]

Gotta love title of the vid

[LoveTeady]

cool episode.

But I can't belive that she is married to brian may.

I wonder where can I watch hole episodes of eastenders as old as that?

[Forestamtul]

Ali the Muslim is drinking. Muslims are not permitted to drink.

[lizgannon]

Who says religion has to be followed to the book? Maybe he's not a practicing Muslim? But just a Muslim in name?

[Forestamtul]

thats true.

[shaun9860]

i think ali is turkish, im not sure but i think he is.

[Forestamtul]

I think he is or maybe Greek. No turkish as he is said to be a Muslim.

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

Blady hell Pat looks good haha and Den was NEVER sexy!

[Forestamtul]

she says the best christmas ever which will end her worst christmas ever. Poor Angie.

[gallafey]

wow everybody's so happy in this except for den & Angie of course but these days Easterender is just so depressing it make you want to slash your rists

[StreathamG]

OH how time flies; EastEnders was the BIGGEST thing ever at one time, bigger than Corrie and even BIGGER than DALLAS. I can remember way back in 1985 seeing an advert for the 'new' show called EastEnders with Angie standing outside the Queen Vic asking viewers to come inside for a drink. My goodness how it has changed - I don't watch it now, can't remember the last time I did. The show went rapidly downhill when they went to four episodes a week - they just couldn't sustain the drama - SHAME.

[MilkshakeSmiles]

"Appy Christmas, Ange"

[Aitherion]

So awesome.

[ilikeloveyoulike]

he was pretty sexy back in the day..

[koolkat284]

hell to the yes xD

[starrygalpal]

me and my friends Rachel,Sian,charlote and sophie always watch eastenders

we always talking about it on our cell phones/mobiles and on MSN

[princesschat]

good for you...ahem.

[Rachellouisax]

wow

[MozzaGamer]

no.1 christmas present