She described Bianca as a "king-sized pain in the backside [...] A screeching and screaming virago with a big mouth and pea-sized brain" and a "prize slapper [who] tormented all those whose paths [she] crossed.
After spending time with Sonia and Robbie, Bianca leaves Walford for a holiday for Tiffany. [76], Palmer's portrayal of Bianca earned her a nomination for "Best Actress" at the 1997 Royal Television Society Awards[77] – being the first soap actress to ever be nominated – and in 2000 she was awarded "Best Actress" at The British Soap Awards, a prize voted for by viewers. Tiffany then meets Evie Steele (Sophia Capasso), who stands up for her in front of Jagger. [20] In 2000, Owen stated that the storyline he most enjoyed in EastEnders was the build up and marriage to Bianca, because "the public's enthusiasm for the event was a great motivation". She's got that family of misfit kids with different fathers [...] She's like Carol. [2], In Larry Jaffee's book, Albert Square & Me: The Actors of Eastenders, McCutcheon discussed the auditioning process at the BBC in December 1994, saying that the casting directors liked the way she read, but did not feel that her dress sense tallied with their vision of Tiffany. "[62] Bianca left the show on 27 April 2012 when she was sent back to prison for attempting to steal from the market before returning on 27 November of that year. Whitney is then found and comes back home. Tiffany is very upset when Billie dies. "[68] The actress also explained that as she lives in the USA, she would not be able to commit to a longer contract so the shorter one worked better for her.
The character was featured in various other storylines, including a feud with Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp); a tug-of-love for Ricky's affections with his first wife Sam Mitchell (Danniella Westbrook); a one-night stand with Lenny Wallace (Des Coleman), causing a sexually transmitted disease scare; and the death of her best friend Tiffany Mitchell (Martine McCutcheon). They disliked that Ricky was pushed around by Bianca and treated as a subordinate by her friends. [67] The decision to reintroduce the character was made by Jon Sen, the show's new executive producer, who revealed that this was "high on [his] wish list" when he joined the soap. There followed Tony's imprisonment and a court case in 2009. About 6am the next day, Mitchell found Kaylynn blue and cold to the touch. "[7], A volatile relationship between Tiffany and her boss, landlord Grant Mitchell, was scripted in the show. ; Bianca bows out of Albert Square in EastEnders tonight", "Bringing Ricky and Bianca back to EastEnders is the easy option", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bianca_Jackson&oldid=987104512, Articles with dead external links from October 2010, Articles with dead external links from June 2019, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 November 2020, at 23:11. Tony grooms a 12-year-old Whitney and they begin a sexual relationship. Subsequently, the plot never came to fruition. Bianca leaves for Manchester after confessing to Ricky that she no longer loves him. Tiffany and Evie then kiss in the toilets witnessed by Bernadette. Having been told by Tiffany only hours earlier that she is planning to leave the country, Grant snatches Courtney and flees. [42] Another trailer sees Bianca singing The Jackson 5 hit "I Want You Back" and performing a dance routine with her four children. She never wants to suffer again the way she did. Nathan died in a road accident when Bianca was heavily pregnant and she took on the responsibility of Nathan's daughter, Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty). She is rescued by David and when she tries to kiss him, he confesses that he is her father. McCutcheon subsequently wrote an autobiography entitled Who Does She Think She Is? Bianca moves in with her grandmother Pat Evans (Pam St Clement) in Walford and with Ricky's help, she gets her children back and a waitress job.
Despite avoidance from Bernadette, Tiffany understands how Bernadette feels. Jacob had previously appeared as a regular character in EastEnders between 1986 and 1989, as health visitor Carmel Jackson (unrelated to Bianca's family). [24], Bianca's decision to abort reportedly angered a proportion of viewers, including parents with disabled children, who rang the BBC to complain that they showed the abortion of a disabled baby. This then culminates in Grant being arrested for attempted murder on Christmas Day 1998. ... white siik with court train, thc man being Richard Galway. Tiffany was a prominent and popular character during her tenure. Bianca discovers that Liam is involved in a mugging and that he has some dubious new friends. We were all crying our eyes out – the crew as well as the cast. When Bianca returns, she surprises her family by announcing that her new boyfriend, Terry Spraggan (Terry Alderton), and his children, TJ Spraggan (George Sargeant) and Rosie Spraggan (Jerzey Swingler), are moving in. Liam returns to the gang and eventually they are arrested and released on police bail. "[71] On the night before the wedding, Bianca meets with Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) for a night out, but they are arrested and have to race to the wedding. He discovered that the participants were both active and implicit in the reproduction of ideology about family relationships and gender. However, Tiffany witnesses Connor and Carol embracing and has trouble controlling herself, finally snapping at Carol and calling her a bad person for doing things with "Whitney's boyfriend", prompting Carol to try and persuade her to keep her quiet. [12], In her first six years in the soap, Bianca's storylines included affairs, feuds, bereavements, abortion, and a problematic marriage to Ricky Butcher. The boys said their mother worked hard for them.
The world’s population was 4,963,633,228 and there were an estimated 137,616,130 babies born throughout the world in 1986, Ronald Reagan (Republican) was the president of the United States, and the number one song on Billboard 100 was "That's What Friends Are … Bianca struggles as a single parent and gets into debt. Tiffany hears Ricky singing The Prodigy's "Firestarter" and he teaches her the song, which she performs in the contests, which she goes on to win. [21], In 1997, the character was featured in a storyline about hydrocephalus ("water on the brain") and spina bifida, a developmental birth defect resulting in an incompletely formed spinal cord of the baby. [5] Among them were the Jackson family, created by Tony McHale:[6] mother Carol (Lindsey Coulson), her four children, Bianca (Patsy Palmer), Robbie (Dean Gaffney), Sonia (Natalie Cassidy), and Billie (Devon Anderson), as well as Carol's partner Alan Jackson (Howard Antony). He added, "Bianca could sulk for Britain – and we adored her for it." EastEnders worked closely with NSPCC when devising the storyline. Her boyfriend, Kappel Cloninger, is a photographer. We'd known each other for years.
She returns for Janine's wedding to Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd), along with Ricky, Morgan and her aunt Diane Butcher (Sophie Lawrence). It was released on 10 September 1999, just as the TV storyline reached its conclusion. Ricky considers ending their marriage, but Bianca convinces him to give her another chance and she becomes pregnant again. Bianca is confused by David's unexplained strange and occasionally hostile behaviour. : My Autobiography, which depicts Young less than favourably.[2]. Grant decides to counter their relationship by making a pass at Tiffany's mother, Louise; they sleep together. However, Bianca struggles to cope and breaks down when she is alone. [67] James Rampton, journalist for The Independent, has commented that she is "adored". Struggling to support Liam, Bianca gets caught up in a plan to steal £50,000 from her drug-dealing boss, Vince (Craig Charles). [12][13] The Mitchell baby saga was a ratings success for EastEnders. I'm looking forward to the return of her family.
The authors suggest that Tiffany's death was one of the most powerful and popular stories featured in EastEnders. Unbeknownst to Tiffany, however, Grant has already been released from prison on bail. When Bianca discovers the affair, she breaks up with Ricky and drives Natalie from Walford. Four years after Tiffany's death, Bianca names her daughter Tiffany Butcher (Maisie Smith) - after her best friend. [8] McCutcheon felt in 1996 that there was a lot of chemistry between Grant and Tiffany and was keen for the characters to have a legitimate relationship. Bianca and Ricky get engaged to Tiffany's delight. Annie Olivia Tiffany Mitchell, sister of Louis Comfort Tiffany, married Alfred Mitchell and made their summer home overlooking the Thames River in New London; their estate is now the site of Mitchell College. [48] It was decided that Bianca's stepdaughter Whitney would be the character that Bianca's boyfriend Tony groomed for sex. Not long after their reconciliation in August 1997, Grant and Tiffany renew their wedding vows and bond on a romantic trip to Paris. "[78] The role has also garnered Palmer nominations as "Most Popular Actress" at the 1996 National Television Awards,[79] "Best Actress" at the 1999 British Soap Awards,[79] "TV Soap Personality" at the 2009 Television and Radio Industries Club Awards,[80] "Best On-Screen Partnership" (with Sid Owen) in the 2001 British Soap Awards,[79] and "I'm a Survivor" at the 2009 All About Soap Bubble Awards. But it's a double-edged sword. "[12] When the character departed the serial in 1999, Molly Blake of the Birmingham Evening Post said "Good riddance!" Tiffany gets into a fight at school and tells her teacher that she saw Carol die under a bus. The character returned in December 2011 after Palmer signed a "working mums" contract, which granted her leave from the soap between April and November 2012. A few months later, she reveals to Grant her father caused her to miscarry, he comforts her and they have sex again. They also find a kitten, which their great uncle Derek Branning (Jamie Foreman) helps to look after, and he encourages them to keep it a secret from the rest of the family and names it Joey. This is the first year in 8 years she couldn't be with us! "[87] Conversely, Mark Wright from The Stage said that the decision to bring these much-loved character back "is very welcome". There is further tension when Bianca makes David uncomfortable by reconciling with and dating his stepbrother Ricky again. She has become a social media sensation through the blog, earning more than 190,000 followers just on Instagram. However it does not last and he is soon denouncing that the child is his. [23] She has also been praised by stage school teacher Sandra Singer, who said: "Maisie has the most incredible memory and when it comes to script work she is fantastic. [72] Oates wanted to reintroduce Bianca as part of a bigger story and wanted to create a story that "propels after she's gone". She claims that young girls idolised Tiffany. Their separation allows Grant to embark on a relationship with Lorraine, destroying Tiffany. A rift forms between Bianca and Ricky when the truth is revealed. McCutcheon claims that this spelt a new phase for Tiffany's character as she made a determined effort to win Grant back but under her own terms: "Now Tiffany is much more assertive.