{"id":5176,"date":"2017-03-17T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael-french.net\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2017-03-17T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:00:49","slug":"whats-on-tv-soap-characters-wed-love-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/?p=5176","title":{"rendered":"Whats on TV &#8211; Soap characters we\u2019d love to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;What&#8217;s on TV&#8217; currently have a characters we&#8217;d love to return article which has a David\/Michael mention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David and Simon Wicks, EastEnders (Michael French and Nick Berry)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re so greedy, aren\u2019t we? We don\u2019t want just one Wicks in Walford, we want the full set!<\/p>\n<p>Michael French has always lit up the screen as lothario David, who was last in Walford in 2014 when he split up from on\/off lover Carol Jackson. Quite frankly, he could spend every episode sat on \u2018Arfur\u2019s bench\u2019 and he\u2019d still be more interesting than many of the characters currently in the show.<\/p>\n<p>David\u2019s fictional brother, Simon, left Walford in 1990, though popped back for a fleeting visit in 2012, when he laid flowers on mum Pat\u2019s grave. What we wouldn\u2019t give to have the pair of them sharing a flat together. In fact, it\u2019d make a great spin-off show \u2013 \u201cMiddle Aged Men Behaving Badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6jan12-00057.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6jan12-00057-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6jan12-00057-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/michael-french.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6jan12-00057-320x180.png 320w, https:\/\/michael-french.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6jan12-00057.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsontv.co.uk\/news\/soap-characters-wed-love-to-return-457154\/\"><strong>source\/full article<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;What&#8217;s on TV&#8217; currently have a characters we&#8217;d love to return article which has a David\/Michael mention. David and Simon Wicks, EastEnders (Michael French and Nick Berry) We\u2019re so greedy, aren\u2019t we? We don\u2019t want just one Wicks in Walford, we want the full set! Michael French has always lit up the screen as lothario &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/?p=5176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,45],"tags":[5,4,3],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-wicks","category-eastenders","tag-david-wicks","tag-eastenders","tag-michael-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-french.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}