EastEnders - Grant & Sharon's wedding + Fowlers learn of Mark's HIV (26th December 1991)

Full episode as requested by @Kelsey Healy
Originally aired on Boxing Day 1991.
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[@fakiola9184]

I could watch Ethel and listen to her one liners all day! Something about her innocence and naivety just makes you happy 💕

[@gilliancorbett1859]

queen

[@iluvlafferty]

Sharon truly was the love of Grant's life. You can see how happy he was at this point. Really annoying that the writers ruined what they had just for the sake of OTT family drama

[@chickfight1602]

It's a soap opera!!!!!

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

yes tiffany never quite cut it.

[@shanefolan]

No, the writers didn't ruin it; Grant was always troubled,self-destructive and a narcissist. His character was always going to mess up and it wasn't ott drama-it's what usually happens with men like Grant. I have known men like grant and it's true that they often are so volatile and hot heated that they can't maintain relationships because they are the classic man child. My way or no way mentality. My own brother is exactly like grant and although charming, attractive and can attract women the cruel irony is he cannot seem to hold on to them and is single approaching middle age. Men like that and grant are very difficult to be around full time and are quite toxic. The alpha male and toxic masculinity thing becomes too exhausting after a while for most women.

[@shanefolan]

@@PeterShieldsukcatstripey No women could or would ever cut it for grant though, not even sharon. Sharon will go down as his true love only because she was his first love but remove the rose tinted glasses. He bullied, humiliated and tormented her for years just like he did to tiffany. Neither marriage was romeo and juliet.

[@Porch.monkey.slayer]

@@shanefolanyawn…… nobody will read that essay

[@joestewart-paul7181]

"He hasn't got any mates" 😂😂 I've got nothing left

[@lisaheisey6168]

Grant and Sharon's wedding day is one of my favorite EastEnders episodes.

[@flight101]

Yes Im back after a year to re watch ❤

[@alexanderjones9572]

Phil has the best lines! When Sam thinks she isn't invited to Grant and Sharon's wedding "E' didn't even invite Sharon til' this mornin!"

[@justthatguy9077]

Eastenders looks 10 times better here than nowm

[@bensmithkent22]

Actually looks and feels gritty and real and not an hd fake film set.

[@superkooper6594]

Fun Fact: While this was playing, the USSR died

[@fairlyvague82]

I absolutely LIVE for people like you 🤓🤣

[@chijavier1869]

That era of EE was the last of unmissable EE.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

I find myself constantly staring at Grant and Phil's hair in these videos, and thinking how with just the bald patches covered up, they'd have full heads of hair!!!! ;*(

[@craig581]

Check him out in Emmerdale. He was a bit of a heart throb in his day.

[@euannocap1328]

Definitely wouldn't call either a full head of hair

[@riotgrrl9218]

Omg me too

[@jhibberd6290]

I watched this while visiting my Great Auntie Flo. RIP Flo. I still miss our tea and creme buns

[@startracker5895]

Tetris was everywhere those days! Lol

[@flight101]

In an hour it will all be over, ha Grant ! Like it’s a dental appointment.. 😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

Didn't realise Sharon was talking about Hattie at first ! It sounded like "See if Fatty knows anything about it!" 😂😂😂

[@vanillasnow4084]

Alexander Jones exactly the same! and i thought Ian was skinny then so it’s not him

[@MrHetherton]

Tetris on the classic gameboy.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

back when phil was still care free

[@SnowTails]

how on earth do I remember this I was only 2 haha what a brilliant channel I love watching old episodes of eastenders and coronation street, it's cool to be able to see where some storylines started and ones I missed as a kid or ones as I was not born yet haha

[@sarahcoleman369]

Could you add Christmas Eve 1991 as well please? Thanks for uploading this! This was in the days when EE was well written, well acted and like real life 😃

[@charlottebruce979]

If I ever marry I'll marry in a dress like that. Sharon looked stunning.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

10:53 Nice how Phil could control the killing machine that was Grant, at least. ;*D

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

1:20 - 1:36 Todd Carty doing a top-notch David Scarboro impersonation without even saying anything. The way he's emulating that moody hanging around in the background; you'd swear they were the same person.

[@kyachdistent1301]

"If you were any slower, Grant, you'd work for British Rail". These were the kind of killer quips EastEnders were full of back in the day. For all its accusations of being relentlessly dreary, it was never without humour. That died when the show died just around 2000, though it was slowing down in quality considerably by the late 90s. Too many people leaving for a start., though I do feel Stench misses the point a bit. After all, the show was never about just one Fowler-ALL the people that started the show, and then the new faces that popped for the rest of the 80s and early 90s were important, but the forever changing hands on the script, casting and producing front had a nasty habit of ruining them and batting away the characters, almost always with duty. Utterly stupid, puerile, embarrassing, patronising and truly unrealistic that characters need to DIE just cos they're not in the show any more-and usually the awful decision of them wanting to axe cast members and not decisions by them to leave, but no matter. Anyone has a right to leave. And no way would people die in droves in such a small area of London that they do in this. If the case, we'd all be able to move about a London a lot quicker without having to bump in to every arsehole in a 5ft stretch!

[@justthatguy9077]

Agreed with everything u said.

[@zaramariadixon5035]

I agree completely!!

[@TheObbster]

Why do you watch the show for the most realistic outcomes? Because if you did, it’d be one heck of a boring show

[@alannahfidler3418]

Nothing can beat the first ten years of ee that’s a fact

[@bensmithkent22]

100% it got utterly ridiculous grant shagging around with tiffs mum, the di marcos were good for a short while and added a rivalry with grant but it was certainly becoming daft. Id say after dan sullivan and steve owen left it was utter tripe the saskia thing was good and you had some interesting love triangles with mel lisa who shot phil phil vs dan etc but genrally it was sliding towards madness. You had a few interesting characters after, dennis for example who feuded with phil but he was part of a ridiculous storyline in the end. When grant came back for get johnny week he literally dialled in a performace it wasnt the same. For me it died completely in 2002.

[@chrisw.7934]

I'm sure this is the first episode ever I saw of Eastenders. 1991 was my first Boxing Day in the UK after moving from Australia. The 90's and early 00s were the best EE years

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

13:20 Young, sober, physically fit Phil looked like a tank compared to Grant!!!! ;*O

[@AA-tq7dm]

Sober? Phil wasnt sober until 1997 lmao

[@bensmithkent22]

Was never bigger than grant. Grant was at his fittest and most menacing here. Id take this version over the bulkier late 90s one. And especially the slow fat one of 2005.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

@@bensmithkent22 I thought Grant looked like a kid at times back then, but still scary and intense.

[@7389]

This was a month after Freddie Mercury died from AIDS. 😥

[@kierangilly1]

My brother has landed him self i right tasty peice as they say 😂😂😂😂Phil cant resist

[@jde9488]

I love Ethel 'alllllll she hasn't stood up another one at the altar has she'😂

[@lloyddenvermckay1410]

Sharon's first marriage to first husband: Grant Mitchell. Also Grant's first marriage to first wife: Sharon Watts. But by 1995 they're divorced. Sharon goes on to marry Dennis Rickman in 2005, then Phil Mitchell in 2014 (whom she also had an affair with during her marriage to Grant) & finally a brief sham marriage to Ian Beale in 2020. While Grant goes on to marry Tiffany Raymond in 1996 & Carla Mitchell in 2003 - off-screen who was Grant's Brazilian third spouse. So Sharon has been married to 4 different men in total while Grant has had 3 wives in total.

[@johntrevy1]

WTF?? Dot looks exactly the same today.

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

She still wears that manky brown coat too.

[@craig581]

@@uniquerebeljaney3639 Classic Dot.

[@bp6329]

I hope she's gone for good.

[@samanthab1923]

johntrevy1 Love ❤️ Ethel & the Pug 🐶

[@jhibberd6290]

She always looked old that's why

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

When you walk through a storm. I always think of SS Ulysees when i hear that song.

[@damiantwister7]

Kathy has never looked old enough to be Ian's mom

[@RobTheEnby]

Probably because there's 13 years between the actors.

[@missolesoul]

Kathy had Ian at 18. She looks amazing even now!

[@flight101]

Ha I just left a comment about her ! Have a read xx

[@nickclark4507]

It’s a shame grant never met den watts

[@danguchi91]

EastEnders Storylines, can you do 27th October 1994 the episode after Sharongate

[@Renwick19]

They tried to make Grant and Sharon the Den and Angie of the 90s by giving them The Queen Vic. Sharon left Grant in 1995 just like Angie left Den in 1988

[@melissawright1979]

Sharon was the only woman not to take Grant's shit

[@Renwick19]

If you notice Eddie Royle never decorated when he had the pub and brut her did Grant and Sharon as the pub still had the same wallpaper as when Den and Angie had the pub

[@shikara24]

They were so much better as a couple than Phil and Sharon

[@ChristopherS9627]

24:26 - Grant singing

[@tomisinosabia967]

Sharon was 22 in this and Grant was 29 in this

[@rabbitcarrot651]

The days when Sharon could actually act. Nowadays all she does is whisper and speak in breathy pants. Urgh.

[@scarlettm86]

And she pulls that weird side smile when she's trying to be sexy.

[@neongirluk]

Yet I still would :)

[@Mandystesia]

She was terrible in the beginning too, all drawn out sad monologues never a great actress

[@DizzyKizzy64]

She actually sounds like a heavy smoker now I recon

[@jhibberd6290]

Cant stand Sharon's facial expressions and that silly thing she does with her mouth

[@tj_90z]

Hi was just wondering if you have the episode from 20th August 1991 where Nick Cotton has a house viewing around number 25? Full episode or just that particular scene as am intrigued to see David Neilson (Roy Cropper Coronation Street) Guest appearance as Mr Webster. Will be appreciated thanks.

[@katiedavis1335]

I love Grant and Sharon I love Phil aswell

[@flight101]

Poor mark… so sad as these days being HIVpos is nothing compared to then when it was a death sentence

[@maureendawe7136]

All the people after the wedding that nobody knows lol

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

I forgot the Vic was green at one point lol

[@tomfletcher8242]

i remember the first eastend boxing episode when i was 9 months old in woolton village with my mum, my dad and my brother (2 years old) that was my first christmas after i was born

[@vaimende]

You remember when you was 9 months old?

[@shanefolan]

@@vaimende no they full of shit, it isn't possible as the brain is not structured to form memories at that age.

[@vaimende]

@@shanefolan lol 😆 I once had a mate in school who claimed they remembered their christening at two weeks old lol 😆

[@shanefolan]

@@vaimende I studied it at university. What it actually is is that people see photos and hear stories of the events after they happened when they are young enough to form memories and then believe they actually remember it when its not possible. It's like asking a kid at 9 months for their opinion on something if you get me, the process isn't quite there yet where they can manage that yet which just makes me cringe when people say they recall stuff at a young age. Eastenders even did it when courtney told grant in 2005/06 she remembered tiffany when tiffany died when courtney was 1. Such ridiculous writing. My next door neighbour tried to tell me he remembered an event when he was 1 years old, my neighbour is now in his 70s but I explained to him it was much more probable he had heard about the event so many times after from family and that it had become a sort of false memory. It dawned on him then that he actually didnt really remember it and that was more plausible. His "memory" of it was actually more that he had held on to the recounts so much so that because he knew he was present in the recounted story he mistakenly believed they were his own memories. The mind is a very strange place at times. It sort of is like placebo whereby in studies participants are given drugs or booze and they get high of affected when its revealed after they were drinking alcahol free drinks or chalk for the drugs.

[@vaimende]

@@shanefolan lol 😆 I have to say my earliest known memory is when I was 2 years old. Its more little things like falling down the stairs and crying and constantly wanting my bottle lol. So little things I can remember like that but I have dyspraxia and we tend to have good long term and random memories yet our short term memory is awful. From what I remember about Courtney is that sue said sje vaguely remembered her mum.tiffany and it was literally one or two things and she was nearly 2 when Tiffany died as Tiffany died new years day 1999 and Courtney was only a.month off her 2nd birthday. I find it funny there are people who literally have no memories of their childhood but many of those people I belive are just trying to block their past out. I agree about what you say tho.

[@TheJimbojetset1]

used to play snooker with todd in between takes down in the bbc bar and the loverly lyne the manageress of the club whos son was tim sherwood who played for blackburn with allan shearer

[@phallus03]

Fucking muppet 😂

[@craig581]

@@phallus03 Fucking Kermit

[@rollicker3139]

"Always look on the bright side of life". Yeah. It took a long time for Grant to do that after Sharon cheated on him with his brother.

[@hidebarnes8188]

Where was Peggy when her son was getting married?

[@violethughes1783]

Hide girl she was half way to lanzarote 😂😂😂

[@fairlyvague82]

So I watched 20 mins to find out the title is a lie?!? 🤬

[@rajenrobert3757]

Please upload eastenders episodes of October 29 1994 onwards..with regards

[@chrisdawson6156]

Jeez I remember this all too well and just think half of the people who star in eastenders now were not even born when this episode aired

[@vdd]

Tetris

[@flight101]

THANK YOU….. OMG ha , i was halfway through watching this and had to walk my dog. Up the road the Tetris music is in my head and I have no idea why.. then I came back and skimmed through the comments, saw yours and you’ve solved my problem as to why it was stuck in my head ha.. brilliant.. I mustve been multi tasking while watching.

[@flight101]

PS how does Gillian Taylforth STILL look 25 even now! Id love to know her secret, or her surgeon bcs that woman looks so naturally young it hurts !

[@smallie210]

I wouldn't say she looks 25 now but she does look very good for her age.

[@bethankrzowski4553]

Young Ian biel looks like an early pre Ramsey... GOT Theon greyjoy... Maybe Alfie Allen will look like today's Ian one day... 🤔

[@alexanderjones9572]

What was the book Martin found? Pauline didn't seem to approve! Not a naughty book, was it?

[@deborahcraven6435]

Alexander Jones The joy of sex !!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Deborah Craven Can understand why she didn't like her six year old son (which he was then, unbelievably!) finding that!

[@Aladdin-nc7cv]

16:04 16:06 22:08 the beginning of trouble...

[@tijindersingh5635]

What year was this.

[@neongirluk]

December 26 1991

[@clairebunt5887]

Dizzy and ❤🎼🎼

[@shabanakhan1874]

Ian was slim!!!

[@bensmithkent22]

So was phil

[@missolesoul]

But...why did Grant sing to her? Is that done a lot? It was kind of cringy.

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

I can't take Grant's hard man routine seriously while he's wearing that hideous pea green jumper. It looks like something Aunt Sal knitted for him.

[@bensmithkent22]

Better than those dopey pastel long sleeve shirts he wore around the late 90s. He was supposed to be 35 but dressed as if he was 65 in clarkson jeans and clumpy shoes. Beppe gianni and steve owen were far sharper dressers even back in the day. What used to crack me up was when he wheeled out a suit for a “posh meal” with sharon or tiff if he was trying to patch things up . Was his idea of dressing up 😮 it always looked like a suit for court. Proper matalan special 😂😂

[@saif1980saif]

How did he catch it

[@Mandystesia]

Drugs, infected needle his ex or something

[@craig581]

@@Mandystesia I believe it was Mark's first wife.

[@youknowthenyouknow.1530]

Sharon's voice and acting changed from then to now Now is awful

[@alexanderjones9572]

Michelle (about the doll) " I've been up since 5 and it's been rabbitin' Chinese in me' ear!" Arthur "I think it's Japanese." Michelle " Well it's not English, is it?" Is that the problem, Michelle? Bit racist, innit?!

[@Richard_Straker]

No, it’s pretty innocuous language, before the PC bed wetters took over.

[@kyachdistent1301]

Yeah, don't it make you sick how everyone sees racism in every little thing that gets said. Like this rewrites history for the fucking better!

[@scarlettm86]

And then Dot goes on to say they're speaking Korean lol

[@missbeauitful4696]

As my grandad is Chinese I wouldn't say it was racist at all.

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[@cherylcacchione8731]

i say dennis are made in heaven hell with grant and phil

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[@Mandystesia]

Jeez it's on Drama everyday, I dread the Mark Hiv story it was depressing and dragged on too much, yes it shows real life but they did it for ratings and dragged it on.. Marks miserable face and Ruth with her accent fs

[@09weenic]

Your correct about Ruth and her accent … And I’m Scottish 😃

[@bensmithkent22]

Mark was one of the most depressing characters. Sulking and boring no wonder ruth got it on with connor and his cheeky oirish charm.

[@samanthab1923]

This is what I'm used to. Not the crap that it's become. Young girls being sexually abused, all the old wanna be Krays the Mitchell's & Bannings have become.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

I reckon mark was a rent boy down at southend but didn't wanna tell his folks that. That's why he would have got tested as he'd read about it in the papers.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

The piano in 1991 and not even any Kylie.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Mark looks a lot like the original mark there.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

If you were any slower grant you'd work for British rail.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Sharon should never have married Grant. It was his controlling nature coming out.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Arthur knew...or suspected.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Phil is gorgeous - Sharon got the wrong one.