Ben Mitchell - 6th March 2006 - Part 1

[@EliottQuinn111]

Aww Ben and Pauline. Funnily enough I never realised they had actually met.

[@joestewart-paul3260]

Poor Ben. Thinking all this time Kathy was dead. Gavin was a real villain.

[@paulyb7267]

The hate mail this young actor got was absolutely horrendous. Most of it was homophobic, too.

[@benmitchell540]

The stuff I have read about what was send is absolutely disgusting. He was quite a good child actor. I really don't know what he did wrong, he was playing a character.

[@paulyb7267]

@@benmitchell540 Ikr, they were even cheering everytime Stella abused him. These sick trolls even had the audacity to blame him for Kathy's so called 'death'.

[@benmitchell540]

@@paulyb7267 I mean that is just sick. Ben was a kid and they were highlighting a major issue with the Stella and Ben storyline.

[@paulyb7267]

@@benmitchell540 Ikr. Also, Kathy was killed off by Tony Jordan, with the permission of Kate Harwood, for a reason. They were impatiently desperate to return Ben, whom they considered old enough (10 years old) to meet his father, as part of the tribe and to give Phil's character a new direction, but they didn't want his mother. Knowing that Kathy (or the Kathy that we knew then) would never have given Ben up, let alone allowing her son anywhere near Phil (who she considered violent and toxic) if she were alive, they short sightedly killed her off. There were numerous ways to bring Ben back without killing Kathy off.

[@benmitchell540]

@@paulyb7267 They could have made her disable and she couldn't take care of Ben properly. But maybe in time she could've got better (a bit like Jane did after Bobby hit her with a hockey stick). But at least Kathy is back now.

[@amywhitmell1997]

hello ben ⭐️🐇

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