Letitia Dean

Eastenders,

Despite being Sharon Mitchell née Watts, off and on, for 32 years, Letitia, 49, vividly remembers her first day on set: ‘Sharon had brought a trinket for Angie Watts. All I had to do was take it out of the box and say to Ian Beale, “Do you think mum will like it?” but it must have taken me 100 takes to get it right.’