Leslie Grantham obituary

Actor at the centre of some of EastEnders’ most explosive storylines as “Dirty Den” Watts, landlord of the Queen VicThe actor Leslie Grantham, who has died aged 71, was one of the most written-about British TV stars of the 1980s. As Den Watts, landlord of the Queen Vic pub, he was in the original cast of EastEnders and at the centre of some of the new BBC serial’s most explosive storylines, as it took on Coronation Street in the battle of the soaps. “Everyone though