Gillian Wright has spent years making EastEnders viewers laugh and cry with her portrayal of Jean Slater. The mother of Sean and Stacey Slater has been a fixture in the BBC One soap on and off since 2004.
Things were looking good for Jean as she met new man Harvey Monroe. But things haven't been too good for the Walford resident, who has bipolar disorder, of late as she refuses to believe she is unwell and needs help despite her daughter's best intervention.
Viewers have seen her proposition Rocky Cotton in the Queen Vic toilets, as well as stealing from a local jewellers amongst other things. But with her fiance distracted with his own problems surrounding his son and the far-right group he was involved in, Jean has continued to spiral.
