'Enders' Charlie: I don't want wealth like Janine

'Enders' Charlie: I don't want wealth like Janine
'Enders' Charlie: I don't want wealth like Janine (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Janine Malloy may be splashing the cash after bagging a huge inheritance, but actress Charlie Brooks says her life wouldn't change much if she became rich. The EastEnders star's character is embarking on a massive spending spree after learning she was the sole beneficiary of grandmother Lydia's will, but Charlie prefers simpler pleasures. She told Inside Soap: "I'd buy a boat, because I love going fishing. I'd do all the usual stuff, like buying houses for my friends and family. Plus, I'd hire a full-time masseuse, but I wouldn't quit work." Charlie revealed there were some benefits to Janine's new lifestyle - better costumes. "I've got a whole new wardrobe! It's not right up my street, but it's a damn sight better than it was," she said. And the actress revealed her six-year-old daughter Kiki would love her mother to play a less scheming character. "Kiki sees it loads because she's at my mother's house, because mum's also an addict of the show. "Kiki says to me, 'Why can't you be a nice character?' I sometimes think I'd like Janine to be nice for a bit, but the audience won't have it. They love Janine being bad!"

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.