EASTENDERS star Letitia Dean has revealed she is getting “strange looks” from younger men after her character’s kinky sex scenes.
Sharon Mitchell has been enjoying a steamy love affair with with Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) with more raunchy scenes than at the peak of her love triangle with Phil and Grant.
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Sharon and Keanu have made love on the Mitchells’ kitchen table, used handcuffs in Phil’s bed and even done it under The Arches.
And now Letitia says she keeps getting eyed up by young men – even when she nips to the corner shop.
“Well, sometimes when I pop into my local little OneStop, I get some very strange looks from young boys, but the people that I’ve seen in my little quiet life have really enjoyed it,” she said.
When asked about her experience of filming these physical scenes, she told the Metro: “Very trying! Looking up into those beautiful eyes.
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“Danny, on a serious note, was so respectful and lovely — and I just couldn’t believe my luck, really, because he’s such a lovely bloke.
“I loved doing it — I loved working with Danny very much — it was really exciting for me.”
Earlier this week EastEnders’ long-awaited Christmas episode burst onto our screens with Sharon being exposed, Phil erupting like a Cockney volcano – and Keanu being ‘shot’.
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Madman Phil Mitchell was never going to expose Sharon quietly, but the Christmas special saw all his usual theatrics – and then some.
He began by telling her: “You can stop laying the table, because no one’s coming.”
But he built to a majestic rage of furniture-throwing and guilt-tripping which culminated in him angrily brandishing a teddy wearing a jumper that read: “Daddy loves me.” A Mitchell masterclass.
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In true EastEnders style, much of the drama went down in the Vic, with Sharon revealing herself as a cheat to anyone who cared to listen.
“I’m having Keanu Taylor’s baby. I’m not proud of it,” she yelled – sounding ever-so-slightly proud of it.
But she soon silenced the room when she asked: “Am I the only one who’s ever cheated?” In EastEnders? No. Noooo.
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Scheming Ben Mitchell masterminded the events that led to Keanu’s demise like an evil puppeteer.
As the episode opened, he told dad Phil: “Keanu Taylor won’t make it to the mince pies.”
And – unless Martin had some on hand at that creepy warehouse he shot him at – the bloke didn’t get anywhere near them.
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While Phil was struggling to say Keanu’s name correctly, repeatedly referring to him as “Kea-no”, Louise appeared to be struggling to take the whole thing seriously.
Told her boyfriend had been cheating on her, she reached for some bizarre black humour.
She quipped: “Sharon’s been pregnant since before we were together? What is she, an elephant?”
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Stone-cold Louise managed to get Keanu into the car believing he was off on a jolly holiday to freedom.
She told him: “You’re the father of my child, I’m not having anything happen to you.”
But when Martin Fowler dragged him through a window, she changed her tune, telling him: “Never, ever take a Mitchell for a fool” before opening the door and walking away. Cold!
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Things became a little unclear when a creepy old building loomed into shot – with gunfire heard from inside.
Martin Fowler later emerged looking like he’d just killed a bloke, but we never actually saw the bullet leave the gun.
Is Keanu really dead? That appears to be the implication.
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Keanu’s shooting appears to have been captured on camera, with Ben doubting Martin had bumped him off – until he saw the phone footage.
He gasps in twisted wonderment: “You really did it.”
Like a keen henchman, Martin replied: “And the gun’s disposed of.” Way to make all Ben’s Christmases come at once.
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The EastEnders episode closed with Martin standing beside a flaming bin.
And if that wasn’t creepy enough, East 17’s Stay Another Day was playing over the top of the scenes.
To quote the Walthamstow pop act: “Baby if you’ve got to go away I don’t think I can take the pain.”
And if there’s one thing an EastEnders festive special can deliver, it’s pain.
