Jodie Gold
| Jodie Gold | |||||
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| EastEnders character | |||||
| Portrayed by | Kylie Babbington | ||||
| Duration | 2010–2011 | ||||
| First appearance | Episode 4014 7 June 2010 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 4317 14 November 2011 |
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| Introduced by |
Diederick Santer and Bryan Kirkwood |
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| Spin-off appearances |
"East Street" (2010) | ||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||
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| Occupation | Beautician Barmaid |
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| Mother | Vanessa Gold |
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| Stepfather | Harry Gold |
Jodie Gold is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Kylie Babbington. She first appeared on screen on 7 June 2010. On 24 October 2011, it was announced Babbington's contract would not be renewed and Jodie departed on 14 November 2011, along with Poppy Meadow (Rachel Bright).
Originally introduced as a love interest for Darren Miller (Charlie G. Hawkins), she is also the daughter of established character Vanessa Gold (Zöe Lucker). Jodie is Jewish and Darren has a circumcision operation to respect this. Her step-father, Harry (Linal Haft) was thought to be her father until Vanessa reveals this time him in an argument. Darren also proposes to Jodie but decides not to marry her after thinking he's not good enough for her.
Babbington received many letters within six months of her initial appearance, from fans saying that Jodie is their ideal woman. When Jodie's friend Poppy was introduced, her initial scenes with Jodie were described as "a bizarre and utterly irrelevant chat" by Jody Thompson from the Daily Mail. Daniella Graham from the Metro said that "viewers were left questioning why on earth anyone thought this pointless sub-plot was necessary." This was later confirmed to be "filler" as a number of scenes were cut out from Tommy Moon's funeral.
In Jodie's first appearance, she is found by Darren Miller (Charlie G. Hawkins) in the road saying she is lost. Darren offers to help her and she agrees to go on a date. She then finds her mother, Vanessa (Zöe Lucker) who hands her the keys to her new car, and Jodie reveals she got the job she had interviewed for at Roxy Mitchell's (Rita Simons) salon. The next day she goes for lunch with Darren and she thinks it is sweet when Darren reveals he has a son, George Trott. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start, especially when Darren accuses Jodie of stealing his World Cup tickets, but eventually they agree to have sex. However, when Jodie sees that Darren is not circumcised, she explains that she is Jewish and cannot have sex with a man who is not circumcised, though she does not go to a synagogue. This causes them to break up temporarily but they soon start dating again, saying they can wait to have sex. Darren has his circumcision in secret, telling Jodie he is on holiday. However, when Vanessa's affair with Darren's boss Max Branning (Jake Wood) is revealed and she is dumped by her husband Harry (Linal Haft), Jodie dumps Darren, thinking that he has been laughing at her, and disowns her mother. However, Jodie and Vanessa are reunited after a fire breaks out in The Queen Victoria public house.
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