EastEnders icon Michelle will take time away from playing the Square’s sinful Cindy Beale temporarily over the summer, as the ...

Since EastEnders began in 1985, the groundbreaking soap has given us hundreds of memorable characters – and some rather ...

EastEnders icon Michelle Ryan, who played Zoe Slater, has reprised her role after 20 years, with her character set to make an epic comeback to the BBC soap Video Loading Video Unavailable ...

Ahead of EastEnders ' hotly-anticipated 40th anniversary episode, the soap's femme fatales posed for a smouldering new shoot with Radio Times magazine .

With 20 years of deep-rooted resentment towards her mum, fractured family relationships, and siblings she has never met, Zoe will be in for one hell of a ride when she returns ...

As part of the EastEnders 40th anniversary Woman’s Hour celebrates this iconic soap’s track record of featuring strong female characters and exploring some of the most pressing, contentious ...

EastEnders is 40 years old ... Pete, the fruit-and-veg seller who called female customers “treacle”; Ali, the Turkish-Cypriot taxi driver with a gambling habit.

Michelle Collins said older female voices ‘should be heard’ on television BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron “TV isn’t great for women of a certain age, but soaps are,” she told Radio Times .