What was the name of Ethel's dog in Eastenders
Willy (EastEnders) Ethel has to make the heart-breaking decision to put him down. Ethel is devastated to lose her dog, so the residents of Albert Square raise money to buy her a new dog. However, Ethel won't accept it, saying Willy is irreplaceable. On 30 May 1992, two weeks and two days after being written out of "EastEnders", the dog who played Willy died. Willy was cast less than a week before the filming of "EastEnders" began. From the beginning it was decided that the pensioner Ethel Skinner was to have a Yorkshire Terrier named Willy (after her dead husband). The company
Ethel Skinner knew very well her birthday was in February, she organised a party at Ethel's request to give her one last 'birthday' before she died. 19 February is also the day that EastEnders was first broadcast. Ethel's death was voted the fourth most emotional moment in television entertainment in a 2010 poll of 3,000 British people conducted by Freeview HD. Ethel Skinner Ethel Skinner is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by Gretchen Franklin. Ethel also features in a 1988 "EastEnders" special episode, entitled "CivvyStreet", set on Albert Square during World War II, in which she is