EastEnders had viewers on tenterhook in last week's episodes which saw Sharon Watts blindside Phil Mitchell by stealing the pub from under his nose.
She and Ian Beale bought the pub from Mick and Linda Carter as Linda refused to sell it to Phil despite him being menacingly set on buying it.
But as the soap goes off air for the foreseeable few weeks, fans were just left with a smug looking Sharon revealing to Phil that she was the pub landlady once again, leaving him reeling.
It is not the first time Sharon or Ian have been handed the keys, so let's take a look back at who has run the pub over the years and how they managed to get their hands on it.
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