I Am Derek Branning!
 

AND I AM THE BOSS OF THIS FAMILY....

*Dies of an heart attack*

well he whent out with a bang

Poor guy, was being the greatest he's ever been then he gets killed off like that, such a shame

yeah moille

EastEnders legend.

im glad hes gone i never liked him

King.

I agree and I suspect they axed Derek because when Jamie spoke to the press or did interviews he was pleased about playing Derek, although he want to portray more sides to Derek but the show bosses wanted the character to be a pure villain...

absolutely not

Best character since Grant Mithcell :worship:

His character was getting better, wasted potential somewhat.

A great character really don't understand why they killed him off, especially when there are so many other characters in it at the minute that add nothing at all

maybe the actor what to

Derek actually seemed quite annoyed that his character was getting the chop. I believe I read an interview on that somewhere on DS.

evil eastenders

dereko!

go bye bye

quite silly but at least someone worth watching

-shoos the Butchers-

I was disappointed with his demise. I expected something much more elaborate. They could have made a great whodunnit out of it if he had been murdered.

Jamie's contract was always a year and ever since they introduced him, they knew what they wanted to happen. Stories are planned 12-18 months in advance.

I suspect they didn't go with it because of the whodunnit with Archie's murder on Christmas day and also the Kat shagger storyline and also with Max's secret, I think having a whodunnit would have been too much.

Oh he died? shame..i can remember enjoying him whenever i would flick on and off

I couldn't stand him when he first came in and I thought it wa a bit silly that neither jack or max never lamped him but I was starting to like him more and they could have done more with him and Kat - show how he tried to control her before they killed him off.

Eastenders once again was best Christmas soap though.

I loved Derek. Jamie needs to do more acting. It would be great to see him on a tv show or even a movie.

He's done a few movies Vanessa, he was in layer cake. Always plays the same kind of character though. Would be great to see him do something else though, he has been great as Derek

He was really quite **** in Layer Cake :joker:

He's also that racist Taxi Driver in The Football Factory if anyone remembers him

Really? I didn't know that. I'd love to see his movies!

he plays the best of gangsters - but in albert square = he is just not right - with all due respect.

yeah it did not fit

I didn't realise there were so many 60 year old women on here.

Watching soaps?

:nono:

well good for them

not only not fitting just to over the top -

oh ok

I think Jamie is great anyway. I loved Derek. He was a brilliant character and he played him very well.

yeah he did

Jamie Foreman is a good Actor, shame he is typecast because his dad was an East London gangster.

I hope he will get the chance to play a different character whatever he does next after leaving EE and I wish him well:).

I hope so! It would be great to see him in more movies and tv shows.

good actor good character wasted by the silly writters who just make everybody out to be some kind of idiot. shame another one who could of been good is gone,

Jamie can do better than Eastenders! He needs to make more movies!

yea defentialy.