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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jessica Sansome

BBC The One Show viewers left fuming over EastEnders star's appearance ahead of emotional Lola scenes

EastEnders fans tuning into The One Show to watch one of its stars were left unimpressed and flocked to social media to complain. Danielle Harold appeared live in the BBC One show's studio on Wednesday night (November 2) to chat about her latest hard-hitting storyline.

Viewers of the BBC soap recently saw Lola Pearce, played by 30-year-old Danielle receive a heart-breaking glioblastoma multiforme diagnosis. They witnessed an emotional scene last week in which the normally outgoing beautician Lola was told by a doctor that she was suffering from the notoriously aggressive form of cancer and would need to undergo an operation imminently.

Danielle, who has played Lola, the granddaughter of Billy Mitchell, since 2011, was chatting about "massive responsibility" of portraying her character’s brain tumour diagnosis and subsequent cancer treatment has been.

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