EastEnders' Jo hopes Tanya & Sharon will be mates

EastEnders' Jo hopes Tanya & Sharon will be mates
EastEnders' Jo hopes Tanya & Sharon will be mates (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Jo Joyner has revealed Tanya Branning and Sharon Watts' initial clash could be the start of a beautiful friendship on EastEnders. Letitia Dean returns to Albert Square next Monday and her character Sharon and fellow feisty lady Tanya (Jo Joyner) do not get off to the best of starts when Tanya walks in to find Sharon in a state of undress with her husband Max. After Sharon flees her wedding, knight in shining armour Max offers to lend her a change of clothes - and gives her the run of Tanya's wardrobe. Jo revealed: "We definitely start things off a little bit ropey. They start off definitely a bit rocky like anyone would with Tanya if they've been found in her kitchen with their husband, especially someone as gorgeous as Tish. "But it's been really, really good fun. We've worked together quite a bit recently and I've loved it because she's lovely to work with. "We've had some very feisty moments and they are just finding their ground and circling each other for a bit and then they end up quite getting on." Letitia added: "Tanya comes home and she's like, 'What are you doing in my clothes? What's that about?!' "It's great because they're both quite feisty and I'm hoping that they'll end up being quite good friends. They are circling each other, that's been great fun to play."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.