Kevin Wicks

Infobox EastEnders character 2


character_name=Kevin Wicks
actor_name=Phil Daniels
years=2006–2008
first=17 February 2006
last=1 January 2008
dob=12 December 1959
dod=31 December 2007
status=Deceased
occupation=Car salesman
father = John Wicks
mother = Betty Wicks
wife = Shirley Carter
Denise Fox (2007)
sons = Jimbo Wicks
uncles = Brian Wicks
cousins = Simon Wicks
1st cousin once=Steven Beale

Kevin Wicks was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders". He was played by Phil Daniels, and made his first appearance on 17 February 2006. It was announced on 18 August, 2007 that Phil Daniels had decided not to renew his contract and the character was killed-off in an episode set on New Year's Eve 2007 and broadcast on New Year's Day 2008. [cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a72398/kevin-wicks-quits-eastenders.html|title='Kevin Wicks' quits 'EastEnders'|publisher=Digital Spy|date=2007-08-18|accessdate=2007-08-18]

Arrival

Kevin arrived in Albert Square after his son Deano had told Pat Evans that he was dead. He claimed that Deano had run away from home, but Deano claimed that Kevin had thrown him out. Kevin was about to leave England and live in Italy, but he realised he couldn't leave when he was reunited with Deano and his daughter Carly. He has since taken over the running of the car-lot in Albert Square.

During a conversation with Pat, Kevin revealed that he'd had another son, James, or Jimbo Wicks. Lively Jimbo had died of cystic fibrosis, and quiet Dean had promised to do all the things Jimbo never got to. Dean became Deano overnight, after Jimbo's death, as Jimbo was his best friend as well as his brother.

In May 2006, Kevin was falsely accused of having an affair with new Walford arrival, Chelsea Fox. It was Chelsea's protective mother, Denise, who got her wires crossed and berated an innocent Kevin at any chance she got. Since realising her mistake Denise softened slightly and she and Kevin embarked on a rather unconventional romance. However, Denise's fierce, uncontrollable temper proved difficult for Kevin to control. He often unwittingly offended her and the two were regularly involved in heated arguments, which often left Kevin exasperated and perplexed. Cracking Denise's hard exterior proved a challenge to Kevin until he began to see a more vulnerable, sensitive side to her, which convinced him that she was worth persevering with. Denise ended her relationship with Kevin, however, when he hit Owen Turner, her ex-husband, who had been making taunts about Carly.

In July 2006, Elaine Jarvis, the manageress of Fargo's restaurant, set her sights on him. They went out for a couple of dates, and Kevin persuaded her to give Chelsea her job back, after she had sacked her. Denise and Chelsea were grateful, and Kevin and Denise started flirting again. During a night out at Fargo's, Elaine sacked Chelsea again, and both Denise and Kevin went to see if she was all right. Chelsea left them in the staff cloakroom together, and Elaine walked in to find them passionately kissing.

He supported Denise through the traumas of Owen beating her and kidnapping Libby, and the couple then moved in together with their families.

Shirley Carter

In late 2006, Kevin took his children, along with Denise and her family, and Patrick and Yolande Trueman on holiday to Dorset. Kevin's ex-wife Shirley was tipped off that they were there by Kevin's old friend Dylan. Shirley broke into Kevin's minivan, discovering where Kevin was now living. She deliberately bumped into her children and pretended to be a stranger, as they had not seen her since they were children. She later came to the holiday house and Kevin was surprised to see her. He told her to leave him, Deano and Carly alone.

On 1 January 2007, Shirley came to Walford to see Carly and Deano. She walked into Kevin, and he dragged her into the men's public toilets, where he made her beg to see the children. Carly saw them fighting outside and worked out that Shirley was her mother. After Deano had a car accident, Shirley came to visit him in hospital. Shirley decided to leave her family again, but when Deano told Kevin that he thought Shirley had left seventeen years previously because of him, Kevin made Shirley stay to put things right with Deano. She then got a job and a flat locally, saying she was staying around. She bribed Kevin with a secret that he was keeping from Deano and Carly. Shirley later told the secret to Pat Evans, and when Carly was suspicious, she and Deano forced Kevin to tell them the truth — that he was not their real father.

On 1 February, Kevin left Walford in a car after a huge row with his step daughter Carly, the day after he told her and Deano the secret. Carly lost her temper while he tried to carry on as normal and told him to get out of their lives. He sobbed in his car before driving off. His whereabouts were unknown. However on 16 February it was revealed that Kevin had emptied the car-lot's banking account in Hastings, proving that he was at least still alive.

On 9 March, Kevin was seen in Dungeness. He was planning to go to France, but when he met a man named Jed, who stole his ferry tickets and then died in a road traffic accident, Kevin decided to return to Walford. He came back in a taxi, which drove over some rubbish bags containing his clothes, which Carly had thrown out because she thought Kevin would never come back. Kevin saw Shirley and Carly leaving the pub together and went over to the car lot. Carly then found him and, although initially pleased to see him, she told him to leave them alone. Kevin then saw Shirley, who noticed he had Jed's blood on his face. She took him back to her home so he could clean up, and they started arguing, but eventually ended up kissing passionately. The next morning Kevin regretted his night of passion with Shirley and they agreed to keep it to themselves. Kevin's first move was to go to Pat at the bookies. She was stunned to see him and criticised him for leaving her with his mess, but she agreed to help him re-build the family. He then borrowed Shirley's phone and texted Deano, telling him to go to the allotments. When Kevin revealed it was him Deano was delighted and convinced him to find Carly together. Deano hid with his phone ready to take a video of Carly's reaction to seeing Kevin, but was stunned when she rejected him and mentioned their encounter before. This led to an argument between Carly and Deano, which Kevin broke up, and he and Deano left. Later on Kevin entered The Vic to many stunned faces and sat down with Deano and Pat. Carly joined them later on and they eventually came to a truce and all agreed to be a family again, but Kevin didn't realise Chelsea saw him sitting down. Later he proceeded to Pat's to try and re-build his relationship with Denise. He was greeted with delight by Libby but he was stunned to hear Denise knew he was back already. He then talked to Denise and despite his best efforts she let her anger take control and shut the door on him. The next day at a pub quiz, Pat and Yolande joined forces to get Kevin and Denise on the same team. Denise initially walked out but Kevin convinced her to return. Afterwards Shirley ranted to the whole pub about recent events and then told Denise to do everyone a favour and marry Kevin. The next day Kevin proposed to Denise properly at the post office but she turned him down. However, later on when she went back to Pat's to collect the rest of her possessions, Denise found the ring Kevin had offered to her and tried it on. She tried to take it off when Kevin returned home, but she couldn't get it off and hid it from him. Kevin told Denise he just wanted her to move back in and she agreed, but he eventually found the ring stuck on her finger. After some childish bickering, the pair agreed to give marriage a go.

Second marriage

On 16 April Denise revealed that she had picked 27 April as her and Kevin's wedding date, the anniversary of his deceased son Jimbo's death. Denise had no idea about the day and started to have second thoughts about marriage and began doubting whether she and Kevin were meant to be married. However, after talking to her, Kevin realised how much he loved Denise and pleaded with her to marry him on that day. After Pat let slip what day had been chosen for the wedding, Deano went to the car lot to confront Kevin just after Denise had agreed to go through with the wedding after all. He told his father that if the wedding was held on that day he would not attend. After failed attempts to talk Deano around, Denise asked Shirley to have a word with him. She agreed but instead told Deano that Denise was trying to control their family and encouraged him to move in with her permanently.

Kevin later warned Shirley when she came round to the house not to stir things and said the recent encounter between them meant nothing, before she left offended. On 23 April Denise confessed her concerns that Deano's refusal to turn up would ruin their wedding day so she and Kevin agreed to postpone the wedding. Kevin then told Deano about the wedding postponement and played him an old family video of Jimbo has a youngster, but this just angered Deano more and he stormed off. After Shirley comforted him, Deano announced that he wanted to live with her, leaving Kevin devastated. The next day, Kevin confided in Denise that he feels Deano has been stolen from him by Shirley.

Kevin's stag night consisted of a quiet night of drinking at the house with Patrick, until Deano came home and announced he would attend the wedding after all, delighting Kevin. At Denise's hen night Shirley got her drunk, which resulted in a fight between Pat and Shirley, getting them both arrested. In the back of the police van while being driven to the police station, Shirley told Pat that she slept with Kevin in March. She then revealed her plans to tell Denise everything, which caused Pat to call Kevin to warn him about Shirley's plans. However, Kevin did not receive the message until the next morning, the wedding day. After Shirley and Pat were released, Shirley went straight to Denise, but just as she was about to knock on the door, Kevin intercepted and pulled Shirley away, telling her not to say a word. Shirley then asked Kevin to have a drink with her to mark the anniversary of Jimbo's death, which he agreed to. Kevin confided in Pat at The Vic that he felt he should come clean to Denise, but she encouraged him to fight Shirley and not let her win.Later, after Kevin failed to turn up for their drink, Shirley made for the registry office with the intention of revealing all to Denise. Denise deduced that something was wrong and Kevin pulled her aside and confessed that he had slept with Shirley. Denise was stunned by his revelation and accused him of proposing to her out of the guilt after his night of passion with Shirley, but he explained he was depressed when it happened and pleaded with her not to cancel the wedding. Kevin then compared Shirley's attempts to ruin his life to that of Denise's ex-husband Owen's, but this caused her to throw him out of the room and remove her engagement ring.

When Shirley arrived she started looking for Denise and when she found her she started hinting towards what happened between her and Kevin, having no idea that Kevin had told her everything. Shirley eventually announced with triumph that she slept with Kevin, but was stunned to see Denise had no surprise on her face. When Kevin and Pat entered she told the two she intended to depart but Shirley convinced her to go through with the wedding because she made it clear how much pleasure she gets ruining Kevin's life. Kevin, Denise and Pat then back to where the ceremony was taking place and after Denise stayed outside with Kevin for a minute and kicked him, the two married. Later at the reception Shirley turned up looking drunk and defeated, where she boasted that Denise married Kevin out of spite against her and predicted their marriage wouldn't last a whole year.

Deano and Chelsea's arrest

On 31 August 2007, Kevin got hold of a tape which he thought to be a film recorded by Chelsea for workmate Preeti Choraria. The film was actually CCTV footage from the Minute Mart which went missing when Patrick Trueman was attacked. Kevin watched it and saw Craig Dixon hit Patrick over the head with a wrench.

On 3 September 2007 Kevin destroyed the tape of Patrick being attacked. When Chelsea and Deano were arrested, they confessed to the police that their statements were false and were imprisoned. At the time, Carly revealed that she copied the CCTV tape onto a blank tape. She admitted to Kevin that she didn't want to help Deano this time because he caused this for himself, and she left. Chelsea and Deano were subsequently found guilty of attempting to pervert the cource of justice and were both sentenced to six months in prison. Chelsea returned from prison on 31 December 2007 but Deano had to serve his full sentence.

Death

In December 2007 Kevin did a deal with Phil Mitchell to sell cars for him. Kevin did not know that the cars were stolen, but Darren Miller later found out and told Kevin. However, Kevin continued to sell the cars. Phil later found out from Jack Branning that the cars were dangerous and illegal "cut-and-shuts" and told Kevin to get rid of them as soon as possible.

While Kevin was out, Denise sold a car to Yolande Trueman, unaware that it was a cut-and-shut. On New Year's Eve, Kevin tried to steal Yolande's car so he could have it crushed. He used a spare key to get into the car, but Yolande caught him and asked him to give her the keys. The bonnet of the car was slightly open, so Kevin secretly disconnected a part of the car so it would not run.

Later, Kevin saw Carly fix the car and get in with Yolande, and fearing for his daughter's life, attempted (and failed) to stop Yolande driving off. Kevin was relieved when they safely returned. That night, Kevin smashed the car's window to break in, but was seen by Phil, who told him to get rid of the car, and to make matters worse Ian Beale arrived. Kevin told Ian the car had been vandalised and he had called the police.

Ian went to the pub and told Yolande the window was smashed, so Kevin quickly offered to take the car for repairs, when actually he was planning to have it crushed. Yolande gave him the keys. As Kevin was getting into the car, he was seen by Shirley, who knew the car was illegal. She threatened to call the police, but Kevin smashed her phone and dragged her into the car, quickly driving off. On the way to their destination, the car ran out of petrol, and after attempting to push it, it ended up crashing.

They came up with a plan to remove the number plates, get petrol from another car, drive the car around to make it seem like joyriders had stolen it, and then burn it with the remaining petrol. In the car, Kevin was driving dangerously. He soon decided it was time to go, but Shirley said to have one more go at a brake turn. This soon proved dangerous as Kevin drove off at high speed and the car bonnet opened, blocking their view. The car rolled over and landed on its wheels, onto a pile of wreckage, seemingly okay.

However, Kevin had been impaled on a piece of scaffolding, which had pushed itself up through the front of the car during the crash. He groaned and seemed to be okay although as time went on, he became weaker and weaker. Shirley attempted to keep him alive but failed, and he died before the New Year. [cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a80990/kevin-dies.html|title='Kevin dies|publisher=Digital Spy|date=2008-01-01|accessdate=2008-01-01] Kevin was taken to the hospital morgue, where Denise kissed him at the stroke of midnight as they had agreed, and she wished him a Happy New Year.

On the date of the funeral Deano returned to the Square - this time handcuffed to a guard. Meanwhile, Shirley got extremely drunk on vodka and when she was confronted by Pat she admitted that she still loved Kevin.

Back at the car lot, Darren and Phil argued over the circumstances of Kevin's death.

To add the problems of the day, the hearse broke down - this added a strain to the day, as the event was nearly cancelled as they rang to say that the funeral would be stopped if he wasn't there within the hour. However, when Darren comes up with an idea, he, Steven, Mickey, Patrick, Masood and Deano carried their friend to the crematorium, as they marched through the market they were joined by mourners honouring the deceased businessman.

When Denise returned in June after a world trip with Carly, She had revealed that she had scattered Kevin's ashes in the South China Sea.

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