Eastenders - Donna Ludlows Last Appearance (13th April 1989)

[@eastenders4k251]

Most underrated Character in EastEnders. Donna should've never been killed off she had so much more going for her

[@kaydenlewis2185]

Donna deserved better :(

[@kailewis6520]

Agree with you 100%!!!!!

[@MrRydells]

@@kaydenlewis2185 She really does

[@shesslucky]

Donna calling out for Dot, heartbreaking. Her plea left unheard, once again.

[@ismailafzal2805]

Anyone here after Kathy mentioning her 30 years later?

[@kashimehmood2760]

Ismail Afzal yeah 😂

[@anonymous-od1gv]

She looks like rainie

[@vicvega24]

I find it depressing Donna was rejected by Kathy during her existence.

[@ismailafzal2805]

@@vicvega24 And then forgotten by Kathy once she left existence

[@ifyousayso1466]

She was a rape product when Kathy was 14. Donna should have taken no for an answer

[@captaincorleone7088]

Brilliant writing, you could see where Donna was headed as the episode progresses. She was troubled and needed help but was rejected by almost everyone. Drugs provided an escape from her reality and eventually it was a fatal escape. She came to Walford looking for answers and what she received, sent her over the edge.

[@Harris665]

C’mon she was a right shit stirrer even before the drugs..

[@eastenders4k251]

Kind of like Danielle's story

[@MisterSolitude]

Prefer her in Mr bean

[@tomhiggins6542]

@@eastenders4k251 much better done than Danielle.

[@Cletus-Hellfire]

Shame they killed her off so quickly. I honestly never knew Ian and Ben had a sister until I saw iit on the wikia/fandom page. It is a shame she was killed off whilst Phil lives on as a zombie after his constant alcoholism and drug addiction. He is one of the only ones who survive things that have killed previous characters. He is not as good as he used to be. His car business has been failing for years, he has no pub and his relationship with Kat is nonsense.

[@l0ndon429]

Poor Donna. When she begged Kathy 'I wouldnt embarrass you, I wouldn't call you mum' you really felt that lol.

[@robertprees603]

She had two great adoptive parents who loved her.

[@tomhiggins6542]

Donna wasn't the nicest character but it was easy to see why she was like she was. She'd been rejected by the world and did the same in return.

[@dee2973]

This scene with Donna and Dot is powerful for it shows if you are concerned about a friend or loved one be there now before you're unable to

[@HopkinsChloe]

I wasn’t born till 1992.. so this completely shocks me!! I can’t believe and never knew Ian had a sister!! Nor did I know about Cathy having a daughter!! Madness!! I think this is the most “gruesome” and heartbreaking endings I’ve ever seen and come across in Eastenders!! WOW!!

[@lukej896]

You wouldn't think Ian ever had a sister nowadays seems like she's long forgotten

[@kyachdistent1301]

Actually, yes you bleeding would. Hello, everything EastEnders did in all the years of the 80s it was around was brilliantly memorable. EastEnders died rapidly in the last years of the 90s, holding out until about 2002 when all point, consistency, reality and drama left it for an indistinguishable loads of Hollyoaks nonsense. And Donna is as remembered as anybody in a show that left us long ago. That thing still going by the name (should be done for fraud) is no more authentic or she show than the last 3 decades of music is actually a music scene.

[@woohooboy]

Donna was a tragic footnote who managed to alienate everyone during her time in Walford. A lost young woman who got caught up in lies, drugs and manipulations. It all ended badly for her........

[@accountuser5588]

Ben had an older sister as well

[@leonardssenkindu5802]

Luke J your correct, I thought of that as well

[@softshallow7435]

Well today’s episode on Thursday the 25th July 2019 Donna was mentioned after 30 years. Kathy said to Rainie that her daughter died of a drugs overdose.

[@melissawright1979]

The actress who played Donna was very good x

[@jane1975]

Matilda Ziegler played Donna.

[@catchmeifyoucan1807]

Mr. Bean's gf

[@jd49631]

My heart goes out to Donna.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

poor donna. rejected all her life.

[@garethglitter5932]

Until she met Mr Bean

[@Harris665]

Gareth Glitter MR bean treated her with respect

[@eastenders4k251]

even now forgotten

[@lonelydude8392]

@@garethglitter5932 haahhahahahhaa

[@booth2710]

bottom line

[@djbobhoskins]

The ending still shocks me.

[@zanducktv2398]

djbobhoskins I remember a tv critic in one of the tabloids saying can you imagine Corrie being brave enough to show a corpse with vomit?

[@kyachdistent1301]

Yes, because soaps haven't had proper endings (including this show) for decades.

[@fretboardmaster70]

Put me off chicken soup for a while after watching that

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

​@fretboardmaster70 for me, it was tikka masala.

[@Jaccobabe2]

Loved Donna. Especially her scenes with Dot. She was the only one who actually cared about her :( Two amazing actresses.

[@ethanmarsden9758]

I completely agree, she was so misunderstood by everyone apart from Dot. Donna didn't deserve to be treated like that by the residents of the square or suffer such a horrific death.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Kathy feels like crap 30+ years later, it’s nice to see lol Dot was the best!

[@robertprees603]

@@ethanmarsden9758 she did cause a lot of trouble and she had her adoptive parents who loved her.

[@markinette4953]

Great actress lovely woman

[@GlennB9876]

Donna deserved so much better 😔

[@Charlessalbox]

I remember watching this... and I'm just realising that I had some pent up trauma because of how I saw Donna laying dead with all that vomit around her mouth. Damn that nostalgia I experienced paused time and felt horrifying!

[@starkeybf]

I see people saying kathy never mentions donna when she did mention her on the 9th of june 2022 when talking to ben.

[@greensparkles5799]

Kathy was horrible rejecting her own daugther. Its not donnas fault she was born. She just wanted her mum

[@mariahoness9410]

Donna didn't know at first she was a result of a rape. She just reminded Kathy of her trauma. Donna just couldn't understand that. Donna was very selfish and thought everyone owed her. She didn't care about Kathy's pain

[@rundattmedia2106]

@@mariahoness9410 what about Donna's pain and suffering? Kathy should have had an abortion if that is the case! she gave birth to her it's only natural for her to want her mother! what an idiotic statement.

[@ifyousayso1466]

She was rape product. Kathy told her no and she still showed up

[@angelaholmes8888]

Yeah it was horrible the way kathy treated her but I totally understand why she was like that

[@Cletus-Hellfire]

Ian and Ben were disappointments, but she does not seem to want to distance herself from them.

[@nicolacollett7943]

Plus seeing this episode when I was only 18 took it to heart 😢

[@HSD.]

It’s a shame she never gets mentioned now in the show it’s almost like she didn’t exist

[@shynathompson9191]

*update* she was mentioned today. That’s what brought me here

[@beccacostelloe04]

Nice to see you posting videos again :)

[@EastendersClips4U]

Rebecca Costelloe good to be back thanks a break was needed tbh :)

[@buggybug7084]

I know how donna feel cause where i live nowadays no one cares if you have problems either

[@natureclips5849]

She was reincarnated as Rainee

[@BLTKellys]

It was a mistake to kill her off, she could have been a great character to have around in the 90s.

[@gloriempaka9474]

She reminds me of rainie

[@mariahoness9410]

Donna was so desperate to be accepted as family by Kathy and Pete, She used to lie and scheme to get what she wanted. She underestimated everyone and it cost her dearly because she didn't realise she would be rejected.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

She didn’t realize she had someone ready to be her mum, Dot :(

[@robertprees603]

Her adoptive parents loved her so she did have family.

[@joestewart-paul7181]

The ending is still so disturbing to this day

[@booth2710]

very ... shocked me to the core .. first time I had ever seen anything like this on early evening tele

[@joestewart-paul7181]

@@booth2710 it was quite scary

[@leonard2005ify]

This is sad, Ian has forgotten about her sister ages ago, why didn’t he helped her and she could have stayed alive, so…, Ian has a step brother and a step sister, remember it was Simon was the step brother L, but it was David not Simon, I like the way they wrote it.

[@Throssellznest]

Poor donna

[@Eurafrican]

Damn, this storyline was probably the best of the 1980s next to the Den & Angie stuff. Donna was disturbed by the trauma of not fitting into where she was adopted, or where her roots were. Today, there'd be more sympathy for her regarding her obvious mental health issues and trauma. She was messed up by discovering she was the product of a rape.

[@gunplajm1108]

it's mr beans girlfriend

[@originaldw]

Mr beans girlfriend . I was only 4 when this went out so don't remember Donna. Thought Ian was an only child only dawned on me when repeats started I thought she looks familiar

[@booth2710]

@@Kyleeeeeeeee This was when I stopped watching EE ... found that story line too depressing and this was the point when EE became all about its doom and gloom

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Kathy still feels bad for this…she hasn’t mentioned Donna in YEARS :(

[@Scotti_o7]

She mentioned her in last night's episode

[@starkeybf]

She mentioned donna on 9th june 2022 when ben asked kathy how she dealt with her assault as he was assaulted

[@aimeewhelan9897]

@@starkeybfsad thing is she was assaulted again onscreen , the assault from her pregnancy was offscreen , Kathy was r**ped twice. Wilmott brown r**e wasn’t the father of Donna

[@christinebrett4825]

She does mention her but very rarely

[@naparry4772]

Poor Donna.

[@Hulk2k6]

This was on Drama today!

[@MissKatieJaneRigglar]

Poor Donna 😭 shame she got killed off in EastEnders over 3 decades ago 💔

[@kieranahmed5806]

Wow this was on my 5th birthday, no wonder why I never knew Ian and ben had a sister

[@louiseransome3336]

Simon look on daily motion get the full episode of Donna

[@baxlug7078]

MR BEAN'S BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND !!!

[@markinette4953]

I love Matilda

[@bnmys6724]

Irma Gobb

[@mattfisher694]

This isn't the same actress who plays rainie is it?

[@chloex8672]

No urm I think her name is Matilda Ziegler

[@siobhanperks9547]

They look alike though I had to double take to check it wasn’t rainie

[@nicolacollett7943]

2.26 invisible tie ❤

[@andeegreen]

Vaguely remember this character. She was Mr Bean’s girlfriend.

[@fionahamilton7231]

She looks like ranie

[@abseiduk]

This is when eastenders was the real deal. Interms of script that is her accent is far too posh.

[@jane1975]

She was brought up away from London by a middle class couple ( as apposed to the Working Class demographic that Eastenders was portraying ), hence her being more well spoken than the rest of the Square.

[@feefee198423]

I didn’t know Ian had a sister

[@jane1975]

Donna was his half sister, she was the result of his mother, Kathy being raped at 14 by a Music Teacher called Marcus Duffy. Kathy gave her up as she couldn’t cope with the circumstances of what happened and rejected her again when she came into her life.

[@kayburley8121]

She sounds just like Janine her accent.

[@Phoebe1104]

Yeah I thought that 😂

[@startracker5895]

Wouldn’t hurt Kathy to let Donna move in with her. Even if she was raped shes still responsible for her existence.

[@epicmafia2046]

" I was 14, I was raped I didnt ask for any of this" "Nor did i" 😢, Damn these were powerful scenes

[@startracker5895]

Kathy was so selfish. Any normal woman would have had maternal feelings for their long lost daughter. Raped or not. Kat loved Zoe with all her heart and she was conceived of rape by her own uncle! I just don’t think Kathy is particularly caring person.

[@morgo_6918]

Omg, how did you get this? 👍

[@LuannOsbourne]

The scene of donna overdosing is missing

[@EastendersClips4U]

MrsLukeArnold there is no scene of her overdosing

[@LuannOsbourne]

@@EastendersClips4U oh no im folled

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

The sctress made a fatal mistake saying she liked the Benny Hill Show in the BBC canteen :-/ This show just seemed to normalise ultra grim dysfunctionality.

[@jane1975]

I very much doubt that was true, loved Benny Hill and still do in fact we were laughing at some clips in our house the other night.

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

@@jane1975 I know, i was only joking but the BBC did hate/set out to destroy Thames TV as that miserable old Monty Python/fawlty Towers producer John Howard Davies infiltrated Thames and kicked off cancel culture by firing Benny along with 300 staff then skulked back to BBC after they'd lost income and broadcasting license. Yeah Bennys show was great, real shame the PC establishment rounded on it and made sure all mention of it in mainstream TV is snuffed out as all the other actors/Angels had their appeal too and there's been no reunion shows for them after being on most popular show in world, Sue Upton was a boss in her own right mentoring the new Angels, it was a real tight happy family based community running it.

[@ChristopherLightfoot-zu3kb]

Give Ali any scene and he naffs it up 😂😂

[@mijedo]

I just wanted to see Mr. Beans girlfriend acting in other tv shows wtf

[@yumdisc4981]

As sad as her story is, no way would she have such a posh voice after a such rough upbringing

[@lisa-sz8jj]

Looks like Rainy

[@DexTer-tr8wg]

thats the girlfriend of mr.bean !

[@e-oneanimations8847]

miss irma gobb... mrs bean girlfriend... ha ha

[@nt7863]

She never needs to worry about what to wear at the Oscars

[@ManFromHills18]

Mr.bean girlfriend

[@umbre04]

Erma

[@michaelgregory8322]

So let's get this right, Donna,s a slag but Ali isnt

[@MsAdbright]

She looks like Rainie

[@zoeykeeling3997]

Can anyone tell me where I can find these episodes; Thu 11 Jun, 1987 Tue 16 Jun, 1987 Thu 18 Jun, 1987 Tue 23 Jun, 1987 Thu 25 Jun, 1987 Tue 30 Jun, 1987 Thu 2 Jul, 1987 Tue 7 Jul, 1987 Thu 9 Jul, 1987 Tue 14 Jul, 1987 Thu 16 Jul, 1987 Tue 21 Jul, 1987 Thu 23 Jul, 1987 Tue 28 Jul, 1987 Thu 30 Jul, 1987 Tue 4 Aug, 1987 Thu 6 Aug, 1987 Tue 11th Aug, 1987 Thu 13 Aug, 1987 Tue 18 Aug, 1987 Thu 20 Aug, 1987 Tue 25 Aug, 1987 Thu 27 Aug, 1987 Tue 1 Sep, 1987 Thu 3 Sep, 1987 Tue 15 Sep, 1987 Thu 17 Sep, 1987 Tue 22 Sep, 1987 Thu 24 Sep, 1987 Tue 29 Sep, 1987 Thu 1 Oct, 1987 Tue 6 Oct, 1987 Thu 8 Oct, 1987 Tue 13 Oct, 1987 Thu 15 Oct, 1987 Tue 27 Oct, 1987 Thu 29 Oct, 1987 Tue 3 Nov, 1987 Thu 5 Nov, 1987 Tue 10 Nov, 1987 Thu 12 Nov, 1987 Tue 17 Nov, 1987 Thu 19 Nov, 1987 Tue 24 Nov, 1987 Thu 26 Nov, 1987 Tue 1 Dec, 1987 Thu 3 Dec, 1987 Tue 8 Dec, 1987 Thu 10 Dec, 1987 Tue 15 Dec, 1987 Thu 17 Dec, 1987 Tue 22 Dec, 1987 Thu 24 Dec, 1987 Fri 25 Dec, 1987 Tue 29 Dec, 1987 If I can watch any of these episodes to cross off my list I would be very happy if you know where I can watch these episodes.

[@EastendersClips4U]

Zoey Keeling send me an email at [e-mail] and I can help you out

[@bethanylloyd2849]

can you post 18th april 1989 about donnas death been looking for it for ages :)

[@EastendersClips4U]

EastEnders Clips this video is her scenes in her death episode

[@bethanylloyd2849]

Eastenders Clips4U no I mean the aftermath when everyone finds out

[@EastendersClips4U]

EastEnders Clips oh yeah sure I will upload the full episode tomorrow :)

[@bethanylloyd2849]

Eastenders Clips4U okay thank you 😊

[@bethanylloyd2849]

@@EastendersClips4U when r u uploading the episode?

[@Toracube]

Ali…

[@fionahamilton7231]

I dodnt know kathy had another daughter

[@elliottgreco6474]

Still hard to believe she plays Mr bean’s girlfriend

[@bethhewitt6400]

Did donna commit suicide or was it an accidental overdose?

[@QBee240]

WHO?!

[@Quirky_Ventriloquist]

Donna Ludlow was Kathy's daughter and Ian and Ben's half brother. Although Donna wasn't meant to be born, Kathy was raped at 14 and gave birth to Donna. Sadly for Donna, she has been disowned all her life and turned to prostitution and drugs, before dying on April 13th, 1989, of a heroin overdose, and her dead body was covered in vomit. This is a common misunderstanding.

[@fretboardmaster70]

Nevermind, Mr Bean will have you

[@ar13f1992]

the acting not really good yet

[@mikey_360]

Poor donna i dont know why the producers poured chicken soup all around her mouth

[@baxlug7078]

MR BEAN'S BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND !!!

[@baxlug7078]

MR BEAN'S BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND !!!

[@muk8804]

Omg YEAH !!