Martine's tiff over sad ender.
EASTENDERS barmaid Martine McCutcheon blows a kiss to onlookers as she gets into the festive spirit.Martine - Tiffany in the BBC soap - was putting on a brave face as she went out on the town hours after it was announced her character was to be killed off.
The 22-year-old actress revealed she had begged programme bosses not to kill off her character so she would have the option of a return to the show.
But instead, she will die after being knocked down by a car in an episode expected to attract 20million viewers on Hogmanay.
Martine - who became one of the soap's most popular characters - will now pursue a music career after signing a pounds 1.2million deal with Virgin Records.
She said: "I wanted to be written out but not in such a final way. I was very upset.
"Even if I become the most successful singer in the world, I would still have loved it if I could have walked back into the Queen Vic."
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| Publication: | Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) |
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| Date: | Dec 28, 1998 |
| Words: | 168 |
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