Neither wants to tell Grant and when he is released, Sharon takes him back, leaving Phil dejected. Following this Phil then agrees to marry Nadia Borovac , a romanian woman he met in Southampton, so she can stay in the UK, which Sharon disapproves of but allows the wedding to go ahead. Phil gets engaged to Kathy Beale. Realising she still has feelings for Phil, Sharon tries to seduce him. Phil kisses her in a moment of passion that he immediately regrets, so Sharon convinces herself she is happy with Grant and considers having children with him.
Simultaneously, Michelle's boyfriend Geoff Barnes wants to interview Sharon for a book he is writing. Michelle conducts a recorded interview but then forgets to turn off the recorder at the end and discusses Sharon's affair with Phil.
Grant finds the tape and, on the night of Phil and Kathy's engagement party in October , he plays it to a packed pub. He then attacks Phil and bullies and humiliates Sharon into agreeing to a divorce. She goes to stay with Angie in America but returns in March to hostility from the Mitchells.
She is unperturbed and wins back the respect of Grant who realizes that he still loves her. Wanting revenge for her mistreatment, she leads Grant on while telling Michelle that she plans to humiliate him publicly. They have sex and Sharon lets Grant think a public marriage proposal will seal their reunion.
Grant attempts this on the Vic's quiz night; Sharon is all set to turn him down but suddenly cannot go through with it and stops him from proposing. She confesses that she still loves him, then returns to America alone. Sharon's boyfriend, Ross Fletcher, joins her claiming that he has left his wife but Sharon discovers he is lying and ends the relationship and rekindles her romance with Phil. Peggy, however, tries to break them up and fails but Sharon's bombshell that she is infertile following an abortion clearly upsets Phil.
Knowing Phil wouldn't be happy without children of his own, Sharon ends the relationship and returns to the States to be with her mother. After Angie dies, Sharon returns to Walford in April to bury her mother. Angie's death from liver cirrhosis affects Sharon badly and she refuses to reconcile with Phil again, dating an old school friend, Tom Banks instead. The relationship survives but Tom's unstable wife, Sadie, who is sectioned after holding Sharon hostage and threatens suicide unless Tom takes her back.
When Tom is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour, Sharon stands by him and they plan to travel after getting married. On the night of their engagement party, however, Tom discovers a fire at the house of fellow neighbours Little Mo Morgan and her abusive husband Trevor; after helping Little Mo escape the fire with Trevor's son, Tom attempts to rescue Trevor - but the pair are killed when the fire explodes.
A devastated Sharon reels over Tom's death and later organizes his funeral. In early , Den's daughter Vicki returns to Walford. She and Sharon soon discover that they have a brother - Dennis Rickman - who was the product of one of Den's affairs 30 years earlier. They discover that Dennis and his mother were still living locally in the home of his late grandparents, but Paula has just died and Dennis was serving a prison sentence for GBH.
Dennis has links to the same criminal organisation as Den and in July he discovers that Den is alive, two months later he tells Sharon of this revelation but she refuses to believe him. Dennis and Sharon fall in love, but their romance is halted by Den's return at the end of September. He had survived the shooting in , fleeing to Spain and starting a new life there. After years of feeling guilty about disowning Den before his "death", Sharon is thrilled to see him but furious about the unnecessary hurt he caused - although he informs her that he had to disappear and fake his own death in order to protect his family as well as himself.
Den resumes the position as head of the Watts clan and is disgusted to discover Sharon and Dennis's romantic relationship and blackmails Dennis into ending it. Dennis begrudgingly dates Zoe Slater, but just before Christmas , he secretly reunites with Sharon. The couple plan to move to America on Christmas Day but Zoe announces she is pregnant, a ruse Den concocts to split up Sharon and Dennis. Sharon refuses to let Dennis abandon his child and leaves Walford, returning briefly in February when summoned by Den's new wife, Chrissie, with the news that Den is ill.
Chrissie, Zoe, and Sam Mitchell confront Den about various deceitful deeds, including Zoe's fake pregnancy and his affairs. Disgusted, Sharon leaves, disowning Den. In a rage, Den attacks Chrissie and she hits him over the head repeatedly with a cast-iron doorstop, killing him. Dennis reunites with Sharon in America and in June they return to confront Den, but Chrissie claims he has left with another woman - which surprises them, especially as his departure had come so soon after realising his dream of buying back the pub.
Sharon and Dennis marry on 29 August ; during their reception, however, Sam is arrested for digging up Den's body to incriminate Chrissie; however, Sam is charged with Den's murder. Her brothers, Phil and Grant, return weeks later to convince Sharon of Chrissie's guilt.
Sharon and Grant resolve their past grievances, as do Dennis and Phil, and the four work together with Peggy to bring Chrissie to justice. Eventually, Phil and Grant manage to extract a tape of Chrissie confessing to Den's murder - thus proving her guilty to the police. While Sam would later be released from prison, Sharon personally confronts Chrissie just as she attempts to flee the country and punches her to avenge her father's death; Chrissie is then arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
However, the Mitchell's victory is cut short when Sam is forced to flee the country after discovering that she will likely be detained for perverting the course of justice in Den's murder.
On Christmas Day , Sharon is stunned to discover she is pregnant. She and Dennis celebrate the potential of having a child. However, their happiness is threatened when Dennis' resolved issues with Phil leads him to become embroiled into a conflict against his enemy and the square's crime kingpin: Johnny Allen. When Sharon starts to intervene in Johnny's personal affairs in an attempt to warn him to stay away from Dennis, he throttles her and proceeds to give Sharon an ultimatum; he will kill Dennis unless they leave Walford by midnight on New Year's Eve.
Sharon persuades Dennis to leave after confiding in Phil about Johnny's threat. Phil, seeking to get one over Johnny before the end of , later informs Dennis about the threat after telling him that Johnny killed his best-friend Andy Hunter. At first Dennis refuses to submit to Phil's temptation in confronting Johnny about Andy's murder, but relents after Phil describes the way how Johnny threatened Sharon earlier on.
Dennis ends up attacking Johnny to avenge both Andy and Sharon, leaving him battered as Phil had hoped. At the stroke of New Year's Day, Sharon and Dennis spot each other and they start to reunite until Dennis has a run-in with a person - and ends up getting stabbed; Dennis stumbles upon Sharon's arms and dies, though not before telling her "We did it!
Heartbroken and devastated over her brotherly husband's death, Sharon refuses to speak after requesting Phil to avenge Dennis' murder. Later on at Dennis' funeral, Sharon attacks Johnny when he turns up at the funeral - prompting Phil to take her home. Concerned for her unborn child, Phil persuades Sharon to return to Florida to live with Michelle in January ; Sharon later gives birth to a son, Dennis Rickman Jnr.
During her absence, Phil keeps his promise for Sharon and persuades Grant to help them get justice for Sharon. They confront Johnny and learn that he ordered his henchman Danny Moon to kill Dennis; the two are nearly killed after Johnny captures the brothers and orders Danny to execute them, but Phil and Grant are saved when Danny is accidentally shot dead by his brother Jake - who merely attempted to wound Danny and not kill him in order to stop him.
Shortly after Danny's death, Johnny is arrested for the murders of both Andy and Dennis after his daughter, Ruby Allen, forces him to turn himself in - threatening to disown her father otherwise; Johnny ends up getting sentenced to life imprisonment, and later dies of a heart attack in October Furious, John suggests that he saved Sharon from destitution and kidnaps Dennis but Phil rescues him.
Sharon and Jack's romance is complicated by Phil, who is determined to reignite a relationship with Sharon. A feud between Jack and Phil ensues, with both proposing to Sharon. She accepts Jack's proposal but, realising he still loves his former wife Ronnie Mitchell, Jack cancels the wedding.
Phil then persuades Sharon to move in with him but she struggles to cope with Jack's rejection and resumes dependency on painkillers, an addiction that developed to manage her grief following Dennis' murder.
When Sharon passes out unconscious while looking after Phil's granddaughter Lexi Pearce, he throws her out. The upheaval affects Dennis; he starts misbehaving and clashes at school with teaching assistant Whitney Dean. Dennis lies when he falls and grazes his arm, telling Sharon that Whitney has assaulted him.
Blind to Dennis's misbehaviour, Sharon reports Whitney to the school board, requesting her dismissal but is forced to contemplate the truth when Whitney is exonerated. In December , Sharon reunites with Phil and moves back in with him.
Sharon's trust in Phil is tested when he confesses his part in Dennis' fatal altercation with Johnny in , but she nevertheless remains with him and together they buy a new bar: The Albert.
Phil grows resentful of Sharon's preoccupation with The Albert. To re-assert his authority and demonstrate Sharon's vulnerability, Phil hires two men to vandalise the bar, but his plan goes awry when Sharon dismisses the bouncers Phil employs to intercept the vandalising.
Sharon confronts the vandals alone and they critically injure her; she is hospitalised with a ruptured spleen. Guilt-ridden, Phil confides in his ex-lover Shirley Carter, mother-in-law of Sharon's new friend, Queen Vic landlady, Linda Carter, who helps conceal his botched plan. When Shirley confesses she still loves Phil, he spurns her advances and instead proposes marriage to Sharon after she regains consciousness, which she accepts.
Upon release from the hospital, Sharon fears being attacked again. She steals Ronnie's gun for protection but is horrified when Dennis almost finds it. Related: EastEnders teases Stacey's return week in 52 new spoiler pictures. Chelsea immediately warned Gray that she wanted him to have nothing to do with their baby's life because she wanted to raise it as a single mum.
On Thursday, Chelsea will stop by the gym for a heart-to-heart with single mum Sharon Watts about the practicalities of raising a child on her own. Her talk with Sharon leads Chelsea to consider whether she's truly ready to completely support her child without any help from anyone. Sharon found herself in a similar situation a few years ago when she had a fling with Keanu Taylor behind then-husband Phil Mitchell's back.
She would eventually become pregnant, leading to a shocking and violent showdown between Keanu and Phil that would change her life forever. Keanu fled Walford in the aftermath of his clash with the Mitchells, while Phil dumped Sharon because he couldn't raise another man's child.
The year-old, one of the soap's original characters, was last seen on the square in , when her husband Dennis Rickman died. A key character in the BBC One show, she is best known for her relationships with the Mitchell brothers. The former Queen Victoria landlady was married to Grant Mitchell, but later had an affair with Phil, which prompted her first departure from the series in In she returned for three years, during which time she took over the pub from her adoptive parents, Angie and Den Watts.
The character's last return was in , but she bowed out after Dennis was stabbed to death. The storyline surrounding Sharon's return has not not been announced, but Dean said she was "looking forward to being part of the EastEnders team again".
She added: "It has always been very close to my heart. Can Keegs help Gray through his wobble, or will his self-destructive behaviour take a turn and put more people in danger from his terrifying temper?
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