EastEnders’ Sharon Watts to be rocked by shock death of her dad Gavin Sullivan in emotional scenes

EASTSENDERS’ Sharon Watts is set for more turmoil after the shock death of her dad Gavin Sullivan.

Pictures show the Vic landlady actress Letitia Dean, 53, and Cathy Beale star Gillian Taylforth, 65, filming the ‘Celebration of Life’ Wake for the former Albert Square star.

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Both characters along with everyone else in the shot were dressed in black, as they made their way to the wake.

As is the order of the day in recent times, everyone pictured are wearing masks.

Sharon’s dad was played by Paul Nicholas, who made 31 appearances on the soap between August 2015 and July 2016.

Kathy was in attendance as she was married to Gavin for 15 years between 2001 and 2016.

Gavin had an eventful time in his short period on Albert Square, which included murdering his sister and Sharon’s aunt Margaret Midhurst by pushing her off a balcony.

Sharon then joined him on the balcony and he asked Sharon to tell the police that Margaret fell.

A police officer then arrives on the balcony and Gavin grabbed Sharon, threatening to jump, killing them both.

Sharon said he could never kill himself, so he let her go and she told him it is over between them, before Gavin was arrested.

Sharon has had a tough year, which began when her son Dennis was killed in the Thames boat disaster for the soap’s 35th anniversary last year.

Since then her marriage with Phil came to a bitter end and bought the Vic with Ian Beale, but she turned sour towards him after finding out he locked her son in a cupboard on the lower deck of the boat.

She then plotted with Phil to kill Ian, which began with the soap bad boy lamping him over the head and knocking him out and when that didn’t work, Sharon began to drug him, and that failed too.

Ian has since made an escape from Walford and Sharon is left to rue her unsuccessful attempts to end him.