Illogical Verisimilitude - Coming back from the dead

Grant Mitchell – EastEnders

Grant (Ross Kemp) and his brother Phil, during the 90s, were the centre of everything in Walford but they also had an unusual relationship. In 1999 Phil found out that Grant had slept with his wife Kathy causing his brother to jump into the Thames after shooting at him with a handgun. However that wasn’t the end as he was seen to have survived when his brother Phil saw him board a plane with his daughter. Grant has since returned a few times, most notably to help free his brother from prison.

                                                      Kim Tate – Emmerdale

Kim (Claire King) had numerous enemies in Emmerdale due to her affairs with almost every man in the village. But the height of her maliciousness began to show throw during 1997 when she faked her own death and then made her husband Frank, who had served time in prison for her murder, to have a heart attack and she watched as he died. In 1999 she left the village and has not been seen again despite rumours of her making a future appearance.

 "Dirty” Den Watts – EastEnders

Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) is one of the most infamous characters on British TV after getting involved with gangsters, getting his teenage daughter’s friend pregnant and even divorced his wife Angie on Christmas Day. He was shot by the side of a canal and had supposedly died but had gone into hiding in Spain. He then returned to England in 2003 to the shock of everyone, especially daughter Sharon, but was dispatched a few years later by his wife Chrissie and buried under the well-known EastEnders pub, The Queen Vic.

                                                       Andy Holt – Hollyoaks

Andy (Warren Brown) serial rapist, was one of the most malevolent soap characters since Coronation Street’s Richard Hillman and EastEnders’ Trevor Morgan. He frequently spiked drinks and took advantage of many woman, and even encouraged his friend Sam to do the same. Viewers were directed to believe that Andy had died after being pushed off a quarry however he did not and he made his return months later to get revenge on the people who tried to kill him. Andy was soon killed after becoming impaled on an arrow during a confrontation in a warehouse.