EastEnders - Iconic Exits collection. Virgin Books Amazon. Before the Year Dot by June Brown. EastEnders: Iconic Exits collection - part 2. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Phil dismisses her threats but, in a tussle between the women, Shirley fires the gun and Phil is shot.
Sharon is distraught at nearly losing Phil and when he regains consciousness, he persuades her to put her anger aside and give their marriage a try. When Sharon receives a letter from her birth mother, Carol, in , she is ambivalent about resuming contact.
She eventually decides to reconnect but discovers her mother has recently died. She meets her half-brother, Kristopher, who gives her old letters from her birth father, Gavin, revealing his interest in meeting Sharon. Sharon attempts to trace Gavin and visits Den's former solicitor, Margaret Midhurst, who reveals that Den specifically requested to adopt Sharon as he knew her father.
When Dennis slaps Sharon across the face during an argument, her long-time friend Ian Beale confronts Sharon about her parenting skills and, following a row with Ian, she finally realises that she needs to control his bad behaviour.
Sharon is angry but Phil pacifies her by revealing he has traced her father, now going by the name of Gordon Cook. Gordon is a dishevelled man living in a run-down house. Phil persuades Sharon not to pursue meeting Gordon, but she changes her mind and visits him.
When Gordon is unwelcoming and cannot answer Sharon's questions, it emerges that Phil has paid Gordon to pretend to be Sharon's father. Sharon offers Gordon more money to double-bluff Phil and brings him home to Walford.
She eventually manipulates Phil into admitting the truth. Sharon insists that Vincent return half of the business back to her, otherwise she will take him to court, so they become business partners. To pacify Sharon, Phil gives her another address for her father. She sees from his house that he must be wealthy, and realises that the two already lead separate lives; she gives up the search. Sharon believes that Max Branning is responsible for the murder of Lucy Beale but she soon discovers the truth when Cindy Williams sends her surrogate brother Bobby Beale a video message on his laptop revealing that he killed her.
Ian's wife Jane Beale denies this but when Sharon remains unconvinced, Jane admits the truth. Sharon suspects Phil of having an affair with "K" who, unbeknownst to her and Ian, is Kathy. Sharon soon comes face to face with Kathy; the resulting row culminates in Sharon's face being pressed against a car by Kathy. She reveals to Sharon that Phil has known that Kathy has been alive for several years, so Sharon leaves Phil and moves into Ian's house.
Phil goes missing and it is later revealed that Gavin Sullivan, Kathy's controlling husband, has taken him hostage. Phil later returns and collapses, and Sharon takes him back. Concerned for her husband, Sharon remains hostile towards Kathy although Ian attempts to keep the peace between them.
This behaviour persists until Halloween night when Sharon arrives home to find Gavin threatening to kill both Kathy and Ben Mitchell; he greets her with the immortal words "Hello, Princess"—Den's catchphrase, revealing that he is her biological father. She is disgusted when she discovers that Gavin handed Sharon to Den as a business trade.
When the police arrive, Sharon has allowed him to escape. Sharon discovers that Phil has been drinking again, which, after trying to take alcohol from him, leads to Sharon's ear being cut.
Bobby and Dennis's feud leads to Dennis going missing; when Ian and Phil find him, a drunk and distracted Phil crashes the car, leaving Dennis severely injured. Ian takes the blame for the crash in exchange for Phil convincing Sharon not to go to the police; Sharon ends her friendship with Ian. Gavin visits and supports Sharon in the hospital, and offers her a chance to live with him in Hong Kong when Dennis recovers, but Sharon declines, promising to still keep in touch.
Phil then pledges to always stand by her and Dennis. Sharon is stunned when Phil admits he was driving, so Sharon leaves him and renews her friendship with Ian. She does not believe Phil when he says he is dying from cirrhosis, and she moves into Ian's house until Dennis is discharged.
Gavin visits her again, saying he wants a second chance of having a family. Sharon then learns from Phil's daughter Louise Mitchell, whom Phil had tracked down earlier that morning, that Phil has collapsed and is in hospital. At the hospital, Sharon realises Phil was telling the truth, but he has discharged himself to get drunk.
When Dennis is discharged from the hospital, Sharon calls Gavin, telling him that they are coming with him. A week and a half later, Sharon returns with Dennis for Billy and Honey Mitchell's second engagement party only to find Phil collapsed on the floor from coughing up blood.
She, Ronnie, Billy, Honey, Ben and Jay all find out at the hospital that unless Phil stops drinking and undergoes an urgent liver transplant, he is likely to have only twelve months left to live. Ronnie tries to convince Sharon to visit Phil, but Sharon tells her that Phil caused Dennis's injuries. Sharon then has the locks changed and tells Ronnie that she will not let Phil come back.
Phil files for divorce and Sharon agrees, moving in with Ronnie when Phil moves back in with his family. Sharon supports Phil who is trying to come to terms with Peggy's impending death. However, Sharon shares an intimate moment with her apologetic first husband Grant who is briefly back in Walford on her tip off, before making amends with Peggy. She carries on supporting Phil following Peggy's death.
Soon after, Sharon is incensed by Bobby's attack on Jane, revealing the truth about Lucy to Ben in her anger and worry. Sharon and Phil receive letters saying their divorce is close to being finalised, but Sharon tells Shirley that they are back together. Sharon and Shirley pack away Peggy's things so Phil can move back in but when he finds out, he is angry.
However, Sharon tells him that Peggy will never be coming back and he cries in her arms. Sharon is unaware that Dennis remains in contact with Gavin, but eventually finds out and Buster Briggs tells her that Kathy has gone with Gavin, so go to Gavin's house.
As they arrive, Sharon's solicitor and Gavin's sister, Margaret, falls on Buster's car after being pushed from a balcony by Gavin, and she dies instantly. Buster and Sharon break into the house to help Kathy. Buster gets to her while Sharon talks to Gavin, urging him to hand himself into the police, who have arrived on the scene, and she promises not to turn her back on him if he does so. He says he will, but then when she lets him out of the room, he tries to escape but is trapped on the balcony.
The police arrive on the balcony and he threatens to jump with Sharon but she says he would never do that to himself so he lets her go and is arrested. When Sharon sees a letter that Michelle sent to Peggy, she leaves to visit Michelle without telling anybody why. She returns when she hears that Ben is missing, and she contacts Grant to help find him. She is shocked when Grant's daughter, Courtney, tells her he is not coming, but she coincidentally then finds him outside the police station.
He tells her that he loves her, but she rejects him. Phil then discovers Michelle's letter, learning that Grant fathered her baby 21 years previously.
However, Grant finds out the truth, and Sharon confirms it to Mark when he works it out. When Sharon discovers Phil has changed his will, leaving everything to Louise, she forces him to change it to include her.
After Phil has been sober for six months, he decides he does not want a liver transplant and he should be allowed to die. Sharon stands by his decision but he changes his mind after realising the effect on Dennis and Louise. Phil is placed on a transplant list but gives up hope, telling Sharon the family need to enjoy Christmas without him; she angrily tells him he can die.
However, he returns a day later. Sharon is then reunited with her friend Michelle, who will not talk about why she is back. On Christmas Day, a new liver is found for Phil and his surgery is successful. At Michelle's leaving party, Sharon overhears Denise Fox confess to Shirley that Phil is the father of her unborn child. Sharon makes plans for her and Dennis to move back to Florida until Sharon realises that Phil did not cheat on her as she and Phil were not together at the time he had sex with Denise.
Michelle confides in Sharon that since Mark left home with his girlfriend, she and Tim have not had sex for almost two years. She confides in Sharon she broke the law by having a relationship with a year-old student while she was a teacher. Sharon finds out about Denise's plan to have her son adopted so tells Phil the truth after Phil expresses his wish to adopt Dennis. Phil demands to see his son, but Sharon gets them to talk calmly. Sharon agrees to help Phil fight for his son but then stands by him when he agrees to the adoption.
Michelle arranges for Sharon and Phil to spend time alone together and Phil decides to take Sharon on holiday. When Michelle is involved in a car crash after her affair with Preston Cooper Martin Anzor is exposed, Sharon returns after receiving a phonecall from Ian.
Even Letitia Dean has probably lost count of the times she's left and returned as Sharon. She's spent the last 18 years running away to the United States, only to come back to buy a pub or bury her mum, or to have sex with a Mitchell brother, or the other Mitchell brother, or her own adopted sibling, or to confront her inexplicably twice-dead father.
Often Sharon's haircut will imperceptibly change upon her arrival, but everything else — the quivering lip, the worrying breathlessness, the consistent inability to refer to Phil Mitchell as anything other than 'Fiw' — remains the same.
This is how it's likely to be this time around, regardless of if anyone actually wants her back or not. To be honest, it'd be hard to see how anyone could.
Excluding Ian Beale's imminent return as the one true reincarnation of Catweazel , returning characters aren't very much fun for anyone. For the writers it's less interesting than developing a new character, for the actors it's an admission that their post-soap career didn't really work out and for the audience it's inconceivable — if you've moved to the sunny US, why come back to Walford where everyone hates each other and the pub keeps burning down every 18 months?
Look what happened when Kat and Alfie Moon returned in Not only did they throw the entire show into disarray with their botched baby abduction storyline, but they helped to usher in an entire army of identical Moon clones. Surprised to see him rock up at the Vic, Sonia decides to take things one step at a time. Sign in. Back to Main menu What to watch Film news. Get all the latest soaps news and views direct to your inbox Thanks!
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