A new EastEnders character from Telford last night confirmed that the location of Shropshire remains one of Britain’s best kept secrets when she described her home town as being somewhere “between Wales and Birmingham”.Pretty blonde new girl Danielle Jones arrived in Walford looking for a job in last night’s instalment of the BBC soap.
But the 19-year-old character hardly put the county on the map when she tried to explain where she was from to nonplussed stallholder Stacey. “Don’t worry, you are not missing much - it’s okay, but life doesn’t begin and end in Shropshire”, Danielle told her new friend.
The character, who is played by actress Lauren Crace, made her debut in Albert Square with dreams of building a new life for herself in London.
Insiders say her kindness will rub off on others in the Square and she will land herself a job on the stall.
Actress Lauren Crace joins the cast of EastEnders straight from the world renowned drama school, RADA. She has previously appeared in a string of stage performances.
According to a report posted on the BBC website, Lauren said she was excited by potential plot developments for her character.
She said: “I’m thrilled to be joining the cast of EastEnders, it’s a great first role and I can’t wait to see what is in store for Danielle.”
Viewers from the county are sure to be watching to see whether further references to her background are made.
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lets be honest who would admit comeing from telford or wales for that matter
Its seems the Beeb has a very poor view of Shropshire.
Eastenders last night
and the
Green green grass of home.
I fully expect that country bumpkins will now appear in Eastenders as her friends and family.
Very poor BBC
at least give her a Shropshire accent
I lived here before ‘Telford’ and it was a beautiful county with some lovely villages where you would be proud to say came from. But Telford now has such a bad name and reputation. Now I am fortunate enough to live in Ironbridge so when asked, that’s where I come from, I never mention Telford ‘the concrete jungle it has become’
What is this “Eastenders” programme? I’ve never heard of it!
Why would anyone from the Countryside want to go and live in Albert Square, please.
Okay Telford isnt great but the crime rate is a quarter of London on any scale.
However, Shropshire is a beautiful county and I am pleased to live within it.
this peasbody charactor nevr fails to amuse me i bet its just the world service for him , after dinner at eight.
oh how the posh live on there large council;l estate
It brought a smile to my face, that’s pretty much how I’ve been describing my birthplace of Oswestry for 30 years or more. I’m sure the BBC will portray Danielle as a bumpkin, but why not? That’s what she is, after all. Why would anyone bring up their children in a place devoid of cinemas, theatres, museums, restaurants etc? To make them bumpkins, of course!
it is a job to know which is more boring telford or east enders. well said harold
H. St. John Peasbody, apparently Eastenders is like The Archers, but with Cockneys and some sort of moving image thingies.
Matt, you forgot to mention it’s also used as a recruitment scheme for manic depressives
Its not real you know, its all make believe
one rough common place to another then, no progress there, telford appauls me
Is there actually life outside London?
Ha Ha, well said Jonty!
I suppose if the BBC was after the complete opposite of what a teenage Telford female is, then they’ve done a mighty fine job of it!
Jonty, since you obviously consider yourself to come from a much better place than Telford, you might at least have taken the trouble to spell ‘appalls’ properly! I suspect you know little of the place, other than the Town Centre.
Oh, and JD - you may wish to kid yourself if it makes you feel better, but Ironbridge is in Telford. Just ask yourself, how far is it from Madeley? Or even Woodside?
Andrew Finch, the Peasbody character is not real, just a very clever wind up merchant, he is either retired or unemployed, he clearly has lots of time on his hands to comment on just about every story that appears on this website.
I too, find his comments amusing but would never rise to them, as this clearly keeps him entertained.
oh please hands off peasebody, it is reading his mini blogs that make reading his musings so amusing. we must not take life so seriously. indeed i have created an imaginary tory leader diddy david cameron, on peasebody,s political blogs. at least i hope he is imaginary. carry on harold we are right behind you and so is diddy d/c
Hey Devon, if you remember, when I started, Harold was a loony left liberal…. a lot like yourself!
lay off the lass, well done that women
you are a star
You mean Mr Peasbody is a made up name,what a shock!
Eye wood sujest he iz a profesnul purson as unlyke sum of the uther ofrins surplyed bi hour contrybooturs he as a garsp off grammer and spelin.Wel dun Pesebodi!
Do we really need people pretending to have extreme views on here.
Its not big, funny or amusing
Peasbody is funny, Devon has a half wit opinion on lots of things, Y Mab lives in a seperate world, and Andrew Finch seems to be an angry person !!,Just my humble opinion !
I propose a Battle Royale-style fight to the death between Harold, Devon, Y Mab, Andrew Finch, Spindrift and Huw Peach. Now who would survive that?!
But then who would be left to fill these wonderful comment boxes?
Everyone loves my comments if it was not for my zaney sense of humour it would be very depressing on these boardsalhough some of my comments are very serious.
It would be very interesting… My money is on Peasbody or Spindrift.. Devon would try and fight from miles away and have no real punch, Y mab, would want to ban fighting, Andrew Finch would come out all guns blazing, but have no substance to back up the anger,
Get it on I say. viewing fingers will top the charts !!
All this talk of conflict…. how can we ever hope to build a better society without a little love, respect and humility. However, I’d win.
Type my name into google and you will see it is fated that I will win.
half witted, lacking punch we will see, keep it up h st john peasebody, there is no one to touch you. i thought harold wilson was old labour, it is new labour that is doing such a good job for us all. even telford and east enders can do without diddy d/c
I’m with the Barmy Dragon!
hey peasebody please do not label me a liberal, that party went to pot when they got rid of charlie bucholic kennedy, it has been a party in decline ever since. i believe they have recruited someone out of last of the summer wine, called clegg or cleggy as leader. i prefer the label gentle socialist, spreading the butter and jam around all in our society not just the rich few
lay off her, your just jelous, i reckon she’s pretty fit actually
ding dong, she’s hot to trot
east enders another bbc dreary soap. incidentally talking of our licence money and the olympics, have a guess how mane reporters, commentaters and backroom staff the bbc have in beijing? 273, 373 higher 473 no 573! why on earth do they want that many neds out there and radio 5 live acts as though the olympics are on 24 hours a day. i am pleased with all the medal winners but roll on sunday evening when i finishes unless the bbc are doing 3 weeks of highlights