Poll: How will Peggy Mitchell leave 'EastEnders'?

Last week, I asked whether you were happy with EastEnders' 'Who's The Daddy?' reveal and you voted in your droves to let me know what you thought of the BBC soap's latest controversial twist.

Staggeringly, near enough three quarters of those who voted (72.8%) thought that Darren (Charlie G Hawkins) being baby George's father - and Heather's (Cheryl Fergison) first conquest - is ridiculous, while 22.1% said it was a great twist.

The remaining 5.1% couldn't muster the interest to be bothered.

So where does the storyline go from here?

During Monday's episode, we saw Darren break down in Heather's arms at the prospect of being a father at such a young age. This is obviously where the focus of the story is thrown to and as the year draws to a close, it'll be far from plain-sailing for the youth.

Cheryl told me last week: "It won't be too long [before everyone finds out]. Let's just say that as well as Shirley, one other person discovers that Darren's the daddy and that causes quite a lot of problems…"

Who's expecting a festive reveal of the news to the rest of the Square? Paternity seems to be a recurring Christmas theme in Walford...

Onto this week's poll now, in which we turn to Peggy Mitchell's impending exit from the East-End soap next year.



As I'm sure you read on Wednesday, Barbara Windsor's calling time on her role as Peggy Mitchell after 15 years playing The Queen Vic's landlady.

Rumours are already rife as to how she'll leave, but naturally the big bosses are saying nothing!

I'm certainly hoping and praying that there's a Mitchell reunion before she leaves, though.

Earlier this month, Danniella Westbrook - who plays Barbara's screen daughter Sam - told me of her return and a potential comeback: "I didn't ever expect to come back, so it was a really nice surprise to be asked. I was really happy with just the three months to fulfil the storyline and get some closure on it. Then maybe who knows what'll happen next year."

So there's a glimmer of hope there...

Then there's Ross Kemp, who played Grant Mitchell - he'd surely make a return to make Barbara's exit as iconic as possible, wouldn't he? After all, he did take time out of his busy filming schedule earlier this year to present Babs with her 'Special Achievement' trophy at this year's British Soap Awards...

With this in mind - as well as the many other possibilities about her exit - how do you think Peggy will leave the soap?



However she goes, it surely has to be with Julia's Theme...

Let me know your thoughts and conspiracy theories using the usual form below!

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