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EastEnders star banned from knowing role and given codename before joining soap
EXCLUSIVE: EastEnders star Alice Haig has lifted the lid on the lengths the BBC soap went to to keep her arrival as Vicky Fowler shrouded in secrecy, including being given a code name
Stepping on to Albert Square as the new Vicky -the love child of teen mum, Michelle Fowler and Dirty Den Watts - she knew she was instantly becoming part of a huge soap legacy. It was announced that Alice had joined the show back in February and she first appeared on screen in April, when she arrived in Walford for the funeral of her uncle Martin (played by James Bye). She is now the fourth actress to play Vicky - the daughter of Michelle (Susan Tully) and Den (Leslie Grantham) - who was at the centre of a controversial storyline about teenage pregnancy, with viewers initially kept in the dark about who her dad was.
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