Denise Fox

Denise Celeste Fox (also Wicks and Johnson) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Diane Parish. She made her first appearance on 11 May 2006 and temporarily left EastEnders in early 2008 to give birth to her second child. Her exit coincided with the permanent departures of cast members Phil Daniels (Kevin Wicks), Kellie Shirley (Carly Wicks) and Matt Di Angelo (Dean Wicks). She returned to Walford on 6 June 2008. This is Parish's second role in EastEnders, as she previously played singer Lola Christie in 1998. Her storylines have included domestic abuse at the hands of her ex-husband Owen Turner (Lee Ross); her short-lived marriages to Kevin, which ended in his death, and Lucas Johnson (Don Gilet), which ended with his imprisonment for murder, her relationship with surrogate father Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker), a volatile friendship with Kevin's former wife Shirley Carter (Linda Henry), a May–December romance with Fatboy (Ricky Norwood) and a loveless engagement to Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt).