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DING DONG THE WITCH ISDEAD.

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(From The Daily Star)

Byline: MIKE WARD

FUNNIEST bit on last week's EastEnders (BBC1) was Cotton-Haired Joe's belated reaction to his poisonous wife Pauline snuffing it. "I'm glad the old witch is dead!" he cried, after downing no more than 47 scotches. Better still, he then did that hilarious thing you often get from soap characters when their own days on the show look numbered - suddenly "seeing the light" about the whole neighbourhood. Albert Square, it dawned on him at long last, was a "godforsaken hole" - a blindingly obvious point to us viewers, of course, but something none of the poor delusional buggers who live there ever seems to twig. Sadly, once characters have suddenly seen the light in this way, the producers rarely let them stick around for much longer. If they did, they'd ...

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