When X Factor hit our screens last year Simon Cowell made the decision to try and keep away from sob stories and instead focus some of the attention back onto the potential ‘pop sensations.’ However as the class of 2010 were boring to the extreme (apart from Glorious Wagner obvs) this left the story writers and editors with so much time to fill that some of them actually died*.  Instead we ended up hearing about Rebecca Ferguson being a mother and how she missed her kids and blah blah blah. This has become a worrying feature of reality TV. Watching American Idol last night and any female contestant that had forced new life...

Have you seen it? Have you heard? She swapped the dead baby for an alive one! Shocking isn’t it? The answer to the final question is no. This is happening in Eastenders for gods sake, not My Family or Americas Next Top Model. The day a lady has a normal happy baby in Eastenders is the day the show is cancelled. To get a bit more of an idea of how grim Walford is lets have a look see at two other characters and what they have done over this seasonal period: Stacey was raped, killed said rapist, let her husband die with the world thinking he was the killer. Stacey then tried to kill herself but gave up, hopped on a plane and ran away...