Eastenders from the opening episode in 1985 of the long running soap.Sadly Leslie Grantham passed away in 2018 from lung cancer but he made a more than lasting impression on the show, reports The Sun.Den had a turbulent marriage with his alcoholic first wife Angie (Anita Dobson) and over 30million viewers tuned in to watch him hand her divorce papers on Christmas Day 1986.He became involved in storylines that mostly contributed to the character's "bad boy" persona from impregnating 16-year-old Michelle Fowler to forcing enemy Nick Cotton out of Walford for causing trouble around the square.Grantham had two stints on the programme, the first from 1985 to 1989 and the second in from 2003 to 2005.Leslie was married to their wife Jane from.
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