EastEnders trouble. Co-creator Tony Holland was from a large East End family, and such families have typified "EastEnders". The first central family was the combination of the Fowler family, consisting of Pauline Fowler, her husband Arthur, and teenage children Mark and Michelle. Pauline's family, the Beales, consisted of Pauline's twin brother Pete Beale, his wife Kathy and their teenage son Ian. Pauline and Pete's domineering mother Lou Beale lived with Pauline and her family. Holland drew on the names of his own family for the characters. The Watts and Mitchell families have been central to many notable "EastEnders" storylines, the show
EastEnders in popular culture The BBC withdrew its threat to sue after BT paid it an undisclosed five-figure amount. Leslie Grantham also appeared in an advertisement for Radox Everfresh in the late 1990s. The first line of the commercial was "Not so Dirty Den now, eh?", and the final line was "Life after soap... no problem". A promotional picture of Pauline Fowler and Joe Macer was used on the official "Torchwood" website, in a fictional magazine article about aliens. Ben Rawson Jones compares the arguments between Gwen and Rhys in "Torchwood" to "the kitchen sink melodrama usually seen in EastEnders". The Office for National