EastEnders - Sonia and Pauline's custody catfight (11th January 2001)

[@bonnienash8585]

That one liner though lol 🤣 " you wanna bring up my baby you couldn't bring up phlegm' lol 🤣

[@christopherhannaford6348]

I was thinking the same. I couldn't stop laughing. You forget how good the writing was back then

[@gailpottertilsleyplatthill6138]

"You wanna bring up Chloe, you couldn't bring up phlegm." Classic line from Sonia there.

[@MJQueenForever]

Couldn't bring up Phlegm 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Sonia was hilarious back in the day. And Jim ohhhh I miss Jim 😢 and Wendy as Pauline RIP

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

Jim and Pauline were treasures.

[@nobodyshome4633]

Sonia was a badass in this. Glad she stood her ground. What a brilliant cast x

[@juliem64]

haha at that line "phlem where did that come from " "I dunno I just brought it up " lol loved that scene with sonia and jim

[@MJQueenForever]

I have watched this over and over and the phlegm bit and bit with Jim 😂😂😂😂 I wanna know that at least the last bit with Jim wasn't scripted cos it was pure genius 😂😂😂😂

[@fionahamilton7231]

The conversation jim and Sonia had . phlegm how did you come up with that? Don't know just Brought it up 🤣🤣

[@alexanderjones9572]

Bex looking through a family scrapbook with HER kids in years to come. "2001- that was the year Mum tried to have me adopted rather than let my father raise me. A few years later Mum cheated on Dad with a woman. Then Mum contributed to my Gran's death...oh yes, you never met Great Grandma Pauline, that was partly down to Mum..."

[@celtictarotreadings333]

You don’t know much. Sonia had nothing to do with Pauline’s death it was joe macer

[@ymarw1684]

Do you honestly think between them Martin and Pauline could bring up a child? She’s a cantankerous old biddy and Martin is a teenage delinquent living in a square that has a crime rate that puts some third world nations to shame.

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

I’m with Sonia here, she was brave enough to give up her daughter, and Pauline goes on about family but Mark ran off when he was 16 got into drugs, Michelle had an affair with her best mates dad and had a baby to him at the age of 17 and Martin as Sonia put it didn’t know which end of a baby is which 😂😂😂😂

[@albertgray1814]

And Pauline seems to think because she's family that she's automatically entitled to raise Chloe (bka Bex). Ha, not a chance!!!

[@ymarw1684]

@@albertgray1814exactly, the whole “kids should be with their blood at all costs” mentally is stupid mentality, kids should be raised by stable parents who want them. Pauline was just desperate to feel young again (like a mother) and Martin couldn’t give two craps for Rebecca.

[@alexanderjones9572]

So Sonia didn't want to raise Chloe/Bex herself, but she didn't want Martin and Pauline (her father and grandmother) to have her! I'm actually with Pauline here!

[@girlygirlyblonde]

Pauline was just a bored old lady wanting a toy to play with and Martin didn't want Chloe at all.

[@zephyrr914]

Alexander Jones Sonia believes the agenda that giving away a baby to a stranger who really wants them and are rich and wonderful. It’s all bull. A baby should be with the maternal mother unless they are in absolute danger. if they’d help a young girl instead of convincing them to give a baby away.. much better.

[@mattylamb9194]

@Christopher Palmer - but the grandmother did want her. Grandmother's should have rights in this situation

[@alicehewitt3996]

I'm with Pauline Sonia doesn't give a damn about her daughter Chloe

[@pjmoneybags2780]

It seemed the right thing for her grandmother & dad to raise her and Sonia could have still been in her life. Sonia was being selfish. She could have least let them try. I guess she didn't want to be in her daughters life at all .

[@016329]

Kind of with Pauline a bit tbh! She could’ve brought it up, Martin might not be great at it but Pauline knew how to look after a baby and isn’t it better for a child to be with relatives if possible?

[@ymarw1684]

That’s not always the case, she should of have been in the most stable environment that could have given her the best start in life, not some backwater London square with a cantankerous old woman and her delinquent son who doesn’t even want her in the first place.

[@kimdavison8083]

l wouldn’t exactly say Pauline was old probably the same age as iam right now so I don’t think much of that comment

[@gailpottertilsleyplatthill6138]

SONIA SHOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN CHLOE AWAY!!

[@Leeann-rz3ei]

Yes she should.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

I'm half way into this video, and can tell Martin was going to lose it for Pauline. He was just dead weight in there, kinda like a ball and chain. It would've been better for Pauline if she was there by herself.

[@Keibro]

Loved Jim Branning lol

[@HayItsLolz]

Awwww Jim😩💗

[@jackiem3740]

the social worker is beautiful

[@marcustibbs2803]

I miss Wendy Richards as pauline fowler not jim banning

[@nathanchristie8881]

Sonia vs Pauline

[@bigmass4792]

Damn Sonia was feisty

[@geoffsullivan4063]

I think sonia (Natalie Cassidy) was so cute then xx

[@marcustibbs2803]

I miss Pauline fowler

[@Rat_Queen86]

Yeah…. Pauline is a bit of a train wreck

[@gailpottertilsleyplatthill6138]

SONIA SHOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN CHLOE AWAY!!

[@ymarw1684]

She did what was best for the child, two kids in school cannot raise a child.