'''"Chrissie"''' '''Watts''' was a
Fictional Character in the popular
BBC Soap Opera ''
EastEnders '', played by
Tracy-Ann Oberman . From
December 2004 to
November 2005 , Chrissie was the landlady of
The Queen Victoria Public House .
The character is perhaps best known for killing the character of
Den Watts , her husband, in an episode that was watched by 14.34 million
British TV viewers. She is also well-known for her tough character and extreme manipulation to make sure things go smoothly in her favour. She would face facts and give up a fight, rather than turn to the bottle like
Den's first wife,
Angie .
At the end of
April 2004 (the night
Laura Beale fell down her stairs to her death), tough-charactered Chrissie turned up in Walford in search of
Den Watts — her husband! When their marriage turned sour, he'd sold their bar in
Spain and ran off with the money, and she was here to get what was hers. Somehow, Den managed to persuade her to give their marriage another try, and to stay in Walford with him. She was shocked to be introduced to his children (she never knew he had kids),
Sharon ,
Dennis , and
Vicki and that while he was in
Spain with her, he was in exile after faking his own death. She soon hit it off with Den's kids and started to work as a
Hairdresser in
Kate Mitchell's nail salon, SophistiKate's, but tragedy was round the corner when she discovered that Den was having an affair with Kate. She confronted her work partner as she hacked off most of her hair.
Soon after, she patched things up with Kate and they worked together again, and also managed to forgive Den, although promised that she'd kill him if he ever cheated on her again. This threat would ironically come true just several months later...
After Den bought
The Queen Vic (he actually worked with corrupt lawyer Marcus Christie to con
Sam Hunter out of it by saying that her brother
Phil needed her to sell his businesses and raise money for him, although Marcus ran off with the said cash), his former pub, his son,
Dennis and (adoptive) daughter,
Sharon announced over
Christmas dinner that they'd started an affair again and that nothing would come between them this time.
A disgusted Den threw his third attempt to split them up, this time by telling
Zoe Slater (Dennis's girlfriend) to fake a pregnancy. She did so, and Dennis reluctantly chose to stand by Zoe, while Sharon fled to
America . Vicki also left with her, after overhearing Den admit that he didn't truly love her.
In
January 2005 , Den and Zoe had to think quick to carry on their big lie about her fake pregnancy as the time went by, and Den mentally manipulated her into sleeping with him in order to produce a baby which she would pass off as Dennis's.
However, Dennis caught the pair in bed, and after being told the whole truth by Zoe, he told Chrissie (who kept quiet and didn't let on that she knew) and decided to search for Sharon.
Zoe, meanwhile, discovered that she was pregnant with Den's baby. Chrissie (secretly knowing that the unborn child was not Dennis's) persuaded Zoe that
Aborting the baby would be the right decision. Then, during a row with Zoe, she let on that she knew everything, but she, Zoe, and
Sam Hunter (known to the public at the time as 'the three witches of Walford') teamed together to get revenge on Den (Chrissie for his lies and
Adultery ; Zoe for forcing her to fake a pregnancy and then sleep with him; and Sam for losing her pub to Den in a corrupt scheme that he was involved in).
The original plan was to confront Den, and for Chrissie to get him to sign over the pub to her and leave.
On
18th February 2005 , the three women stood together in
The Vic and confronted an indifferent Den. He took it in his stride and openly talked about all of his sins (including making Zoe pregnant to keep Dennis and Sharon apart etc.), blissfully unaware that he was making Chrissie's master plan work. This plan was in the form of Sharon, who was secretly hiding in the dark shadows at the other side of the pub, listening to her father. She appeared, and told Den that her father died a long time ago, and that she was an
Orphan , before fleeing
Albert Square once again.
After this things went pair-shaped: Chrissie knew that Den's ultimate weakness was Sharon, and secretly resented her since she considered three people to be in her marriage (Den, Sharon, and herself), and knew that Sharon was the one person Den truly loved. She hoped that, by getting rid of Sharon, Den would love her, but Den ran towards her in fury after she poken fun at hime about Sharon having just left, and he repeatedly smashed her head against the fruit machine. Zoe picked up the nearest object (a metal, dog-shaped doorstop ironically belonging to Den's long-time nemesis,
Pauline Fowler ) and whacked it on Den's head. He fell to the ground, and as she and Sam went upstairs, the supposed-dead Den grabbed Chrissie's leg, speaking his famous last words: "You'll never get me out of The Vic", which proved true when she picked up the doorstop and delivered the fatal blow to his head (secretly watched by Sam, who was in the doorway) and buried him in a hole in the pub's cellar with Zoe and Sam. The hole was filled with cement the next morning.
She allowed Zoe to believe that she had killed Den when she hit him.
Chrissie said that Den had run off with another woman.
Sam took the doorstop and hid it under the sink in her flat, and began to blackmail Chrissie by saying that, unless she didn't hand over the pub, she would tell Zoe the truth. Despite months of threats, Chrissie eventually stood up to Sam, which led to her telling Zoe everything. She punched Chrissie before confronting her, and fled to Spain after admitting to her mum,
Kat , that Chrissie had killed Den and that's why she was so keen to leave.
The heat was on for Chrissie as Dennis and Sharon had returned to Walford in search of their father, Kat often made snide remarks and Sam grew frustrated as she was now out of work, struggling to pay the rent and hadn't got
The Queen Vic back, so, as Dennis and Sharon got married, she smashed up Den's grave, in the hope that Chrissie would finally be sent down for his death. This backfired and Sam found herself being arrested on suspicion of murder as Den's bloodstains were found under her sink (from the doorstop that she had stolen after Den's killing) and her constant changing of her story (she still didn't tell the whole truth, and tried to eliminate herself from the scene of crime so that she wouldn't be sent down). Chrissie made Kat get her cousin,
Stacey , to make a false alibi by saying that Zoe and Chrissie spent the night that Den died with her watching a video, otherwise Chrissie would drag Zoe down into the mess.
Sam's mother,
Peggy Mitchell , returned to Walford to free Sam, and shoved Chrissie in Den's grave at his funeral!
Peggy also met an old nemesis,
Johnny Allen , and revealed the so-called 'do-gooders' past secrets, such as chopping a prostitute's fingers off, and battering and stamping on the face of a man who had made a spelling error, although this was overheard by Johnny's daughter,
Ruby , who severed all ties with her father, leading to an infuriated Johnny to pay a man to attack Peggy, although she was saved just in time by her sons,
Phil and
Grant , who had returned to the Square.
Chrissie and her boyfriend,
Jake Moon (to whom she'd already confessed the murder), planned to sell the pub to Johnny Allen (and a mystery second buyer) and flee the country, although the Mitchell brothers taunting and strained Chrissie, and even managed to convince Sharon of her guilt after arranging a visit with Sam in prison. They also tried to break Stacey's alibi, but to no avail.
When everything looked doomed, Jake and Chrissie had an argument in Johnny's club, Scarlet, in which she made intimate references to murdering Den. This was caught on
CCTV by Johnny who informed jake who told chrissie who went to johnny and begged him not to show anyone the tape and she also asked is she could get the money for the vic right at that minute.Johnny toke adveantage of her and said the only way she could get the money and go free was if she slept with him.Johnny leaned in and kissed her and she started crying she couldn't do it to jake.Johnny told her since she hasn't slept with him she dosen't get the money.Then Johnny told the mitchels about the tape.
Meanwhile, Chrissie discovered that Ian was buying the pub, and she and Jake made a quick sale of £25,000 on
8th November 2005 to Ian before quickly fleeing the Square straight after. Unfortunately for Jake and Chrissie, at Stansted airport, they turned around to see Sharon standing opposite them with the police. She thumped Chrissie, who was then arrested for murder. While in the interview room, Chrissie said that she would only co-operate with them in exchange for a meeting with Sharon. This was earned, and she tried to make Sharon realise why she did killed her father, but to no avail. She also revealed that she forged Den's signature on the document in which Den handed over the pub to Chrissie, thus The Queen Vic legally belonging to Sharon as Den's next of kin.
On
5th December 2005 Jake Moon went to visit Chrissie in jail and asked her to marry him. However when she found out that he had lost the £25,000 that was to be her bail money, she stormed out of the visiting room after calling Jake an idiot .
After a week in prison, she sacked her solicitor, Mr. Cockeren, and decided to plead guilty to murder. Her last appearance was walking into her cell with a contented smile.
- Siblings: 2 brothers and 1 sister
