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Revision as of 16:36, 24 October 2005 by Theatrehound (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Phil Mitchell is a long-running character in the popular BBC Soap Opera EastEnders, played by Steve McFadden.
Phil first arrived in Albert Square in 1990, along with his brother, Grant, and sister, Sam.
He has at various times owned many businesses in the Square, including the Queen Vic, The Arches, Bridge Street Café and the Snooker Hall, and been married several times.
Phil has been described as a bully who uses his fists when he doesn't get what he wants. He has been involved in several of the show's biggest storylines, including Sharongate, in which he had an affair with his brother's wife, Sharon, and was subsequently beaten up by Grant, and, perhaps most notably, the "Who Shot Phil?" saga, when the character was gunned down. There was no shortage of suspects in this classic "whodunnit?" The culprit eventually turned out to be Phil's ex-girlfriend, Lisa. Also notable was the episode in which Phil and Grant's car plunged into the river Thames in 1999 after they fell out after they became involved with some heavy gangsters who wanted them dead. Grant fled to Brazil after he and Phil escaping their sinking car.
Phil and Den Watts planned a robbery, but Den left Phil (in revenge for treating his daughter, Sharon, so bad over the years), and he was arrested for armed robbery. He escaped and attacked Den, before fleeing. In 2005, he returned to Albert Square desperate for cash. In desperation, he attacked his old enemy, Ian Beale. He ran from the police, who by now were crawling around the Square, and he burst into the houses of Pat Butcher, Ian Beale and the Fowlers in a bid to hide/ escape. In a stand off outside the pub, he attacked a few policemen but was caught and held in prison.
On Monday |24th October], Phil returned to the Square on a permanent basis, the case of armed robbery had fallen through, after brother Grant (who also returned on the same night) used money to influence some of the witnessess involved. Peggy Mitchell had also employed the help of what was - according to Johnny Allen - one of the most crooked lawyers in London.
Women
Phil has been with many Walford women and had been married three times. He had an affair with Grant's wife, Sharon, which was uncovered two years after it had happened; he was briefly married to Romanian immigrant, Nadia Borovac, so that she could stay in the country. They divorced when Phil wanted to marry Kathy; he married Kathy Beale and had a son, Ben, with her. The marriage turned stormy when Phil became an alcoholic and turned violent towards his wife. He had an affair with another alcoholic, and Kathy walked out. She slept with his brother, Grant (partly as revenge for when Phil slept with Grant's wife years earlier), and had a fling with vicar, Reverend Alex Healy. She fled to South Africa with their son to live with her brother; he had a rocky romance with Lisa Shaw, and towards the end, he treated her like dirt and verbally abused her. When they split up, she started a relationship with his enemy, Mark Fowler, who deeply cared for her. Lisa found out she was pregnant with Phil's child, but in a bid to erase their past, she and Mark decided to pretend it was his. Lisa was still emotionally scarred by Phil, and she shot him, although he survived. He confronted her with the truth (he had seen her running after she fired the bullet), and he decided to set up his arch-nemesis Dan Sullivan for the façade, wanting to deal with Lisa in a more personal way. Lisa never truly loved Mark, and they both knew this, and the pair married shortly after baby Louise's birth; Phil had a one-night stand with Melanie Healy, Lisa's best friend, but she planned to marry Steve Owen, another nemesis of Phil's; when his ex-lover Sharon Watts returned, they gave their relationship another try and ran The Queen Victoria together. Phil wanted children, but they split up when Sharon revealed that she couldn't have children, and that Louise Fowler was really his daughter; after just five months of marriage with Mark, foolish Lisa began an affair with phil. She moved in with him, and eventually Phil and the rest of the Mitchells slowly pushed Lisa away from her daughter until she was a virtual stranger. She realised that getting back with Phil was a huge mistake, and she escaped to Portugal, with phil in hot persuit. He arrived back a month later with Louise, but not Lisa. Some residents suspected Phil of killing her; he fell for manacurist Kate Tyler, but she was really an undercover cop called Kate Morton, whose job was to find out the truth about the disappearance of Lisa Fowler in Portugal, and why hers and Phil's daughter now lived with him. After gaining a confession from Phil (that he mentally manipulated Lisa into handing over their daughter), Kate in turn admitted who she really was, and that she would give up her job for him. Phil eventually forgave her, and they married, and as Kate through the bouquet of flowers, none other than Lisa caught it! She was no longer the shivering wreck she once was, and she made it clear that she wanted access to baby Lou. She planned to shoot Phil again, and finish the job, but she came to her senses just in time. When Phil was arrested for armed robbery, Kate left Phil and handed over Louise to Lisa, who fled Walford.
Family
- Children: Ben Mitchell, Louise Fowler
- Mother: Peggy Mitchell
- Father: Eric Mitchell (deceased)
- Brother: Grant Mitchell
- Sister: Sam Mitchell
- Second cousin: Billy Mitchell
- Second cousin once removed/godson: Jamie Mitchell