57 Facts About Pat Butcher

Pat Butcher was played by Pam St Clement from 12 June 1986, just over a year after the show first aired, until her departure on 1 January 2012.

Pat Butcher was one of the longest serving characters on the show, being on it for twenty-five years and six months.

Pat Butcher returned along with other women from Ian Beale's past in a concussion-related dream sequence for a Children in Need special on 14 November 2014.

Pat Butcher made a return as a hallucination for Peggy Mitchell's death on 17 May 2016.

Pat Butcher began working for shady club owner Tony Cattani, who got her involved in prostitution.

Related searches

When Pat Butcher discovered that Mo, now Jimmy's wife, had slept with Tony, she informed her brother; Mo denied it, and Jimmy subsequently disowned Pat Butcher.

Pat Butcher then worked as a well-known woman of the underworld for many years.

Pat Butcher had flings with Den Watts and Kenny Beale —both restless men, unwilling to settle down with her.

Pat Butcher comes to Walford in June 1986, to tell Pete that he is not Simon's father.

When Pat Butcher starts work as a barmaid in The Queen Victoria pub later that year, she finds that Lou thinks Simon is Kenny's son, following an affair and she's adamant that Pat Butcher should keep this secret and not upset her close-knit family - though Pete's twin sister Pauline Fowler overhears and tells Pete everything.

When Pat Butcher is assaulted in February 1987 — left unconscious and close to death in the middle of the Square — Pete is prime suspect in the police investigation.

Pat Butcher is later cleared when the real culprit, the Walford Attacker, is caught.

Pat Butcher tells Simon and the Beale brothers that she does not know who is the father, adding further confusion.

Pat Butcher reveals that Brian, the man that Simon believed to be his stepfather, is actually his biological father.

Pat Butcher has a hard time in her role as the stepmother to Frank's children, particularly with his troublesome youngest daughter Janine.

However, disaster strikes on Christmas Eve that year, when Pat Butcher — doing a short run for a regular customer — hits a teenage girl who later dies from her injuries.

When Pat Butcher appears in court several months later, she is imprisoned for six months.

Pat Butcher's carnal abstinence is a blessing for Roy, as he later admits he is impotent and can offer nothing more than platonic love.

Pat Butcher finally convinces Roy that it was him she wants, although she finds it hard to let go of Frank completely.

Roy is initially willing to forgive Pat Butcher and explains that certain things have got to change, but his son Barry, alerts him to a suitcase containing massage oils along with fishnet stockings and a red Basque that Pat Butcher was planning to take with her for Frank.

In February 2001, Pat Butcher decides to join Simon in New Zealand - though Roy follows her to the airport and tells her that he wants to be with her, despite Barry's objections.

However, in March 2003, Roy discovers that Pat Butcher knew about Ricky having an affair with Barry's wife Natalie not long ago.

Roy believes that Pat Butcher has again chosen to support Frank's offspring over his own, and the stress causes Roy's second and fatal heart attack.

Pat Butcher, who is Janine's alibi, lies to the police and so Janine is implicated as revenge for Barry's death.

Pat Butcher is given a job at the bookies by the square's crime kingpin Andy Hunter in 2004.

Related searches

However, Pat Butcher eventually learns from Johnny's henchman Jake that in the end Johnny did kill Andy and has ordered Jake's brother Danny to murder Sharon's step-brother-turned-husband Dennis Rickman.

Towards the end of 2005, Pat Butcher is summoned as a witness for the prosecution at Janine's trial in December 2005.

Pat Butcher is later surprised to see that Frank has returned and the pair greet each other.

At first Pat Butcher refuses, up to the point where she tells Frank that Janine killed Barry, but eventually relents.

Pat Butcher is touched to discover that Joan often spoke of how much she loved her.

Pat Butcher is devastated and despite initial feuding, she and Peggy support each other through Frank's funeral.

Pat Butcher opts to remain in Walford when her granddaughter Bianca Jackson turns to her for help soon after, moving in with her four children.

Pat Butcher spends time in hospital, where Steven attempts to smother her before she can tell Ian.

Janine persuades Pat Butcher to have the pacemaker fitted and she makes a full recovery.

When Pat Butcher discovers that Janine stabbed herself in order to frame Stacey after making the discovery that she killed Peggy's late former husband Archie, she denounces Janine once more and goes to New Zealand to visit Simon.

When Pat Butcher discovers that Ricky and Janine's maternal grandmother, Lydia Simmonds, is staying with Janine, she believes that Janine is only interested in Lydia's inheritance and Janine jokingly admits this to Pat Butcher, although a close bond soon forms between Janine and Lydia.

Pat Butcher is still adamant that Janine murdered Lydia, which causes an emotional argument.

Pat Butcher initially agrees, but after Janine agrees to share the money with Ricky in the end, Pat convinces him to change his mind.

When Pat Butcher discovers that Simon is about to lose his home in New Zealand, she fails to get a loan to help him because of her age.

Pat Butcher is fearful of Derek, and he taunts her, asking Pat Butcher if she is still a prostitute.

When Ricky returns from Dubai, he reveals that he has lost all his money, so Pat Butcher explains that they will lose the house by the end of the week if a payment is not made.

Janine gives her £50,000 without hesitation, but insists on Pat Butcher using the house as collateral - although this does not thaw the animosity between the pair.

Pat Butcher is admitted to hospital having suffered a pulmonary embolus and the doctors run some tests but she discharges herself secretly, telling Ricky she has been allowed to go.

Shortly after, Janine goes to see Pat Butcher, telling her she is moving the repayment deadline to the following day after an argument with Bianca.

Pat Butcher refuses all further palliative treatment and returns to Walford to be with her loved ones, sharing one last drink with her family and friends in The Queen Vic.

Related searches

David then tells Pat Butcher that he forgives her for all the times she let him down when he was a child.

Since then, Pat Butcher has been mentioned on some occasions and it becomes clear that the square still misses her very deeply.

Character of Pat Butcher was conceived by the creators of EastEnders, Tony Holland and Julia Smith, in 1984.

Pat Butcher was first seen on-screen in June 1986, over a year after the show debuted.

Pat Butcher, played by actress Pam St Clement, was initially introduced on a three-episode trial basis.

Pat Butcher was given an extensive backstory, heavily intertwined with various focal characters within the serial, including all of the Beale and Fowler family who mostly disliked her, particularly her ex-husband Pete Beale, her son Simon Wicks, and Pete's mother Lou Beale.

Pat Butcher immediately "threw a spanner in the works" by telling Pete that he was not Simon's biological father, as she had previously claimed.

Pat Butcher was killed off in the special New Year's Day episode.

Pat Butcher added: "It was a great challenge, that script, " she commented.

Pat Butcher told This Morning: "They were really difficult scenes to play, because we didn't want Pam to leave, " Coulson explained.

Character of Pat Butcher has been spoofed in the cartoon sketch series 2DTV.

The character Pat Butcher portrayed by Jim Howick in the BBC sitcom Ghosts is named for the EastEnders character.