An Area of Contention : Where Fans need to draw the line

In all my years of being a soap fan , or a fan of anyone for that matter, I really feel its disheartening when fans think its their god given right to  post pictures of  celebrities , and think " Oh I think it's okay to discuss their personal Issues" 

In one sentence  I can sum it up " Hell No its not!"

Its one thing for  Soap stars to be under the microscope , be in the public eye but given the state of affairs that have gone on recently in soap communities I think this is an area of contention and where fans should really draw the line.

Corrie Star Kym Marsh knows only too well about what social media and the internet can do to cause undue stress to people. When someone stole her pics along with her daughters and a woman catfished some poor bloke who believed he was going on a date with Kym Marsh herself.

Watch the video below to hear Kym tell her story herself

And its not just Kym who's fallen victim to people being shady ,  General Hospital Actors and Actressses have been bullied online, had death threats thrown at them and some even gossiped about Kelly Monaco's love life .

Matt Cohen who plays  Griffin Monroe was told he should be fired from his job , and some other castmembers have been subjected to online bullies who don't know how to separate reality from fantasy.

At some point shouldn't fans take a step back and think " Maybe I shouldn't be posting their personal photos in fan groups"

Or Maybe I shouldn't be abusive to them and treat them like shit, they are after all regular people who act their asses off for a living.

After hearing Kym's story I believe that fans should post responsibly because they could have a law suit on their hands. That's what happened to Kym's identity thief.

Even more recently Jack P Shepherd's picture of him with his new squeeze was posted in a soap group , and the foolish woman who posted it asked what people thought of him splitting up with the mother of his child.

I totally get people wanting to discuss  the show , and posting magazine covers which is absolutely fine. But when you start discussing their break ups with other people and they're happy with their new love drop it about their old relationship. There is a reason they aren't with the other person anymore and its not for us to discuss it period.

I find that highly inappropriate and wrong on so many levels, it shows disrespect to him  and to his new lady love. Come to that when you're in a soap group you discuss the red carpet events, the shows  and the awards they've won not their break ups.

Nor should fans post pictures of the stars children unless its at events they've participated in with their parents. I saw a woman post school photos of an actresses kids in a soap group and that is just not right.


What they do in their private lives, who they see is definitely none of our business.  You have to stop and think should I really post this , cause they could see it and get pissed off.

Tabloids are disgusting and fans are easily led and sucked in to join the bandwagon, to gossip, maligne,  and disrespect those that are just doing their job.

To those fans I say show some damn respect,  if you were in their shoes would you want people to discuss you private personal business? I think not.

In Loving Memory of Lucy Beale

In the soap world , you get alot of high drama, you get a lot of action and romance , but the one thing that I and so many other fans detest and do not look forward to is the death of a legacy characters beloved off spring.

On EastEnders on Good Friday  April 19th 2014 an event like this took place. Ian Beale lost his only daughter Lucy tragically when she was murdered by her 11 year old brother.

Lucy had been off the rails for quite some time snorting coke, to block out every single  thoughtless comment her father Ian said to her.

The poor lass was beside herself, she didn't want to be  seen as " The Golden Child" the one who he depended on for everything. But that's just the way it happened.

Lets wind the clock back to  2012 Ian Beale had a break down , and he wound up living in the streets for two months, Lucy was forced to look after the businesses on her own, look after her little brother and still attend school herself.

The lass was strong enough to try and do it on her own, but when it was clear she was struggling, and her friends and neighbors discovered Ian had walked away from his kids they were concerned and worried for the kids as well as him.

Alfie Moon ( Played by Shane Richie)  and Max and Tanya Branning ( Jake Wood and  Jo Joyner) went off on a search for their missing friend and they found him .

Ian was deshelved , and scared , and they decided to take him home. But as they say the course of true love never does run smooth.

Lucy couldn't face seeing her dad like that , nor did she want anything to do with him, eventually they did repair their relationship, but then it came out she was doing cocaine, and he became angry with her and they had a shouting match the very night she died.

Which lead to 11 year old Bobby to get out of bed take his sisters jewelry box and smash her in the head with it , instantly killing her.

Their step mum Jane came across the scene and was upset when she saw her beloved step daughter dead, yes I say that but its a bit tongue in cheek really. Jane and Lucy had their troubles but they patched them up.

Jane took Lucy's dead body to  Walford Common instead of going to the police , and we wound up seeing the whole investigation with the suspects being lined up one by one.

No one knew it was Bobby until the 30th Anniversary episode, but even still Max Branning and even Ben Mitchell were in the frame for this and they did nothing to deserve it.

Eventually Phil and Sharon Mitchell found out and they were pissed that the truth was being covered but but they helped Ian and Jane cover up the truth none the less until one dad Bobby decided it was best he told the truth.

He wound up going to prison for her death , but he won't likely be seen in Walford again.

Here is a video we have done to showcase the events that lead up to her death In April 2014.

Slating a former Soap Star ..... Its Tacky in my books

The life of a soap star is not all glitz and glamour , in fact what happens when a soap star becomes the subject of unwanted gossip lies and innuedo's and front page news . I believe that beyond red carpet events we should not be privy to their personal inner turmoils and personal demons in their lives.

 Well that's what happened to Danniella Westbrook as of late and let me tell you I'm not happy about it. I am in no way connected to her, but I have been an EastEnders fan for many years.

Its fair to say that whatever celebrities do behind closed doors or whatever the authorities want with them is not  any of the public's damn business. We should not feed into the crap the media is spewing daily its not fair , or right and it makes me sick to think people are so bloody nasty.

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I won't make any apologies for being so effing blunt , but I think its  about time that the media left former EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook alone she deserves to have some privacy. 

In my opinion fans and the media need to grow up and stop focusing on other people's

 ( especially famous people's ) fall from grace. Its not for us to say or act like hungry buzzards going after their prey. Cause that's what you're doing making comments about her in the first place. Social media can be fun but when fans bash someone they don't know its just hateful.

Its down right disgusting how people think its a riot and make disparaging remarks about someone they don't even know and only know about through the magic of television.

She is someon's mother, daughter ,  and sister and she is also someone who has been through enough emotional upheavel and yet they still carry it on like she deserves to be slated for all the problems she's had over the years . Yes people do have personal struggles and its their journey to be on and not ours to pick apart and make our jabs at , its clearly bullyish behaviour

Yes its true she's fallen on hard times  , has been through the wringer more than once,  but its not for us to pass judgment or make fun of her and her current situation by discussing it online.

Instead of taking pot shots at her , talking about her disrespectfully and about the previous reconstruction surgery she had to have due to her cocaine use, why don't people just take a step back and think to themselves " Is it even appropriate to crack jokes about her period?

I think frigging not , as an EastEnders fans , fan of Danniella's and a fellow compassionate human being I think everyone should back off.

People need to stop being Judge , jury  and executioner and concentrate on their  own personal drama's that are going on in their lives. 


Do yourselves , Danniella and everyone else a favor concentrate on your own personal drama and quit poking your noses into other people's business.

Just because the media reports it doesn't mean we have to read it and spread the gossip and ridicule her even further.

Be respectful, be compassionate, be understanding and most of all be  someone whose strong enough to say I won't be a party to the nasty, negativity of aholes who think they're justified in tearing someone else down.

Get some class people , and remember , one day god forbid you might be in the same situation, and if you do which would be unfortunate would you want people to do the same thing to you that you're doing to Miss Westbrook I think not.

Lily Fowler - Slater in Training

You see this little peanut here . she's not what you think she is , in fact all little girls look sweet and innocent, Oh not Miss Lily , she is a Slater Woman from the tips of her toes to the top of her pretty little head.

From the day of her birth we knew she would be a force to be reckoned with because she is the daughter of Stacey Slater, who is a formidable opponent for anyone who dare to cross her.

Lily's first storyline as a wee baby was getting stuck in the fire at the Queen Vic and Stacey handed her to her father Ryan Malloy. Once All of this was over , Stacey was outted as the murderess of Archie Mitchell and our sweet little girl spent the first four years of her life on the run when  Max Branning helped her mother flee town and escape jail time.

Upon returning Lily has been unruly and mouthy , but what do you expect she comes from a long line of women , who refuse to be told what to do and how to behave.

The unfortunate part of the story is that little Lily and her siblings are in the middle of a tug of war between her adopted dad Martin and her mother Stacey.

And that's not the half of it my friends , when little Arthur got sick Lily's behavior started to get out of hand. Out of jealousy Lily hit her baby brother and this sparked  Arthur's Nana Carmel to think that Stacey was abusing the kids after having seen  Stacey man handle Lily. Carmel called social services and all hell broke loose.

After a day or so Lily admitted to being the culprit who hurt her brother , but Stacey was left angry over the whole thing at Carmel for even suggesting it.

Which brings us up to speed Kat thinking she was being smart and lying about being out drinking the night before didn't bank on  Lily " The Truth Teller" Fowler to announce to everyone that Kat had opened a tin of beans , ate them cold and spilled them and fell asleep in her clothes.

To which Kat said " You gotta watch her making things up" LOL . Jessie Wallace who plays Kat couldn't help but laugh when Aine Garvey as Lily triumphantly at outting her Auntie Kat.


Stacey, Whitney and  Tiffany all laughed because they knew that Lily had caught Kat in a lie  and was happy to expose her for it.

Yep that's our sweet pea, I look forward to seeing Lily hone her Slater patter, get into some scrapes, have some massive rows in the square, and showing she's a true Slater to the core.