EE - new character

[alex_front2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2584237/Lisa-Hammond-joins-EastEnders-disabled-market-trader-Donna-Yates.html

New market trader Donna Yates. Will take on Kat and Bianca.

EastEnders is to introduce a new disabled character.

Former Grange Hill actress Lisa Hammond will play tough market trader Donna Yates, who declares war on stall holders Bianca Butcher (Patsy Palmer) and Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace), and the 31-year-old star is looking forward to playing a 'bad' character.

She said: 'I'm really excited to join EastEnders. Donna is a bit of a handful but they are always the most fun characters - it feels good to be bad.

source: Daily Mail

[Me. I Am Salman]

didn't someone just complain today about soaps not having disabled people

what a weird coincidence that they announce the casting of their most disabled character yet lmao (woops I don't mean that to be offensive)

[Marsh.]

didn't someone just complain today about soaps not having disabled people

what a weird coincidence that they announce the casting of their most disabled character yet lmao (woops I don't mean that to be offensive)

They had a wheelchair user a couple of years back. He was a right bastard.

[Me. I Am Salman]

I know but she has a restricted growth condition too
double whammy

[Marsh.]

I know but she has a restricted growth condition too
double whammy

D: Restricted growth - doubly whammy. You spiteful pig.

[Gstar]

oh my god I remember that guy in the wheelchair they had a couple of years back, he was an absolute *****. I don't like the disabled woman in corrie as well

[Marsh.]

Izzy and her magic wheelchair that floats over doorways, up steps and kerbs with ease. :laugh:

[Vanessa]

Izzy and her magic wheelchair that floats over doorways, up steps and kerbs with ease. :laugh:

:joker: a flying wheelchair!

[Kate!]

Izzy and her magic wheelchair that floats over doorways, up steps and kerbs with ease. :laugh:

She's a Dalek! :amazed:

She needs to exterminate a few of the residents, some are well past their sell by dates, cough ahem Dreary Barlow.

[Vanessa]

She's a Dalek! :amazed:

She needs to exterminate a few of the residents, some are well past their sell by dates, cough ahem Dreary Barlow.

:laugh2:

[Marsh.]

She needs to start with Fiz.

[alex_front2]

oh my god I remember that guy in the wheelchair they had a couple of years back, he was an absolute *****. I don't like the disabled woman in corrie as well

I think a new tv trope that's become a cliché is to have characters in wheelchairs who are unpleasant/ spikey/ nasty to avoid the old nicey wicey person in a wheelchair trope. However, I am glad the actress won the role on merit so no one can say EE is being PC.

[Niamh.]

didn't someone just complain today about soaps not having disabled people

what a weird coincidence that they announce the casting of their most disabled character yet lmao (woops I don't mean that to be offensive)

They were probably reading this forum tbh :umm2:

[Black Dagger]

omfg it's tina :amazed:

[Me. I Am Salman]

She's a Dalek!

omfg

[bbfan1991]

She's a Dalek! :amazed:

She needs to exterminate a few of the residents, some are well past their sell by dates, cough ahem Dreary Barlow.

OMG:D.

Hopefully her character won't be defined by the disability, but it is nice to see a disabled character on EE.

[alex_front2]

OMG:D.

Hopefully her character won't be defined by the disability, but it is nice to see a disabled character on EE.

But you have just defined her by her disability: "....it is nice to see a disabled character on EE." Rather than defining her by her persona! :joker: