Toff at the top
STAR’S HELD UP OVER PASSPORT
JUNGLE queen Georgia Toffolo begged for help when she was stranded on the Maldives because of a wonky passport.
The Made In Chelsea star, 25, had arrived at the luxury destination to spend Christmas with her friends.
But disaster struck when she was detained in an immigration centre as officials found two pages missing.
After crying for nine hours and begging for help on social media, below, she was finally allowed into the country, even though she was “traumatised”.
Toff said: “I can’t quite believe it. I was genuinely trying to come to terms with spending the next... however long... in an immigration detention centre.
“In spite of me crying for nine hours and scaring everyone at the airport, I made some lovely friends (the group of 7 airport guys that didn’t leave me while I was wailing) on reflection they couldn’t leave me, because I was being detained.
“SO SO traumatised but grateful thank you thank you. Toff’s Christmas is back on.” Fans made light of her plight. One said: “This is worrying but could also be a great new TV series for you.
“Banged up with Toff, on ITV.”
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EASTENDERS’ Dirty Den serving Angie divorce papers on Christmas Day 1986 was one of the most iconic TV moments of all time and 30million viewers tuned in to see the Queen Vic landlord’s wife get her comeuppance after she lied about being terminally ill.
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FOUR Emmerdale stars, including Elizabeth Pollard and Archie Brooks, were killed when a plane crashed into The Woolpack on New Year’s Eve. The 1993 stunt drew in 18million viewers and cost £1m to film.
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MARTINE McCutcheon’s exit from EastEnders was one of the most heartbreaking scenes aired by the soap. Her character Tiffany had just survived falling down the stairs as she got away from her controlling husband Grant, when she was killed after being hit by a car on New Year’s Eve. The 1999 scene was so popular with viewers they voted for it to be shown again two months later to mark the soap’s 15th anniversary.
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CHRISTMAS Day 1987 saw Coronation Street bid farewell to one of its most iconic characters, cleaner Hilda Ogden. She reflected on life with her late husband Stan, before singing a wartime anthem with her friends before leaving the cobbles for good. Although she wasn’t killed off, the tear-jerking episode had 27million people tune in.
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IN another gritty EastEnders storyline, Little Mo was abused by her violent husband ★
IT’S the most wonderful time of the year... unless you live in soapland.
While for many of us our main Christmas stress will be burning the turkey or buying somebody the wrong present, our favourite soap
Trevor. After arriving late for Christmas dinner in 2001, he had an outburst and grabbed her by her hair, pushed her face into her food and forced her to eat it off the carpet. Hours later, he beat her up again when he found the contraceptive pills she was secretly taking.
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THE 2006 Emmerdale Christmas special should have been a happy occasion for opera characters have had to contend with divorces, freak accidents and even a plane crash.
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Here NATASHA WYNARCZYK looks at the worst soap Christmases of all time...
Tom King with his nuptials to Rosemary, but like all good soap festivities it ended in tragedy when the businessman was murdered on his wedding day by an assailant who pushed him out of a window. It kicked off a whodunit and the killer was revealed to be Tom’s son Carl. Tom returned as a ghost in a 2013 charity special. ★ HOLLYOAKS’ explosive 2006 storyline saw Clare decide to kill her husband Max after finding out he had a £500,000 life insurance policy. She booked him and his brother Tom a countryside getaway under the guise of a festive break, then tried to kill them both. They survived, but it wasn’t a happy holiday.