Den Watts

"Dirty" Den Watts was a character in the British soap opera EastEnders played by actor Leslie Grantham.

Final demise

February 18 2005 saw the 20th anniversary of EastEnders and the second, presumably final death of Dirty Den. The 'Three Witches'; Chrissie Watts, Sam Hunter and Zoe Slater tricked Den into revealing the truth about destroying Dennis and Sharon's relationship to Sharon herself as she hid in the shadows. His rejection by his fleeing daughter, the only person he had ever truly loved, drove Den to repeatedly smash Chrissie's face into a fruit machine. Zoe defended Chrissie by hitting him over the head with an iron dog doorstop belonging aptly enough to his oldest surviving enemy Pauline Fowler. In a shock twist Den cheated death yet again as he grabbed Chrissie's ankle and lunged for her throat but she dispatched him with a second brutal blow from the doorstop. She allowed Zoe to think she had murdered Den but Sam had witnessed Chrissie finishing him off from the shadows.

Related Topics:
February 18 - 2005 - EastEnders - Pauline Fowler

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Den's final words, "You'll never get me out the Vic!", proved appropriate as the Three Witches encased his corpse in concrete under the cellar of his beloved pub, in what was to be his final tomb, but he still casts a shadow over the Square. As Sam pointed out to Chrissie, "He'll get his revenge. He always does. And when did being dead ever stop Den Watts before?" On the 29th August, the drunk and deranged Sam Hunter dug up Den's body on Dennis and Sharon's wedding day.

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