Joe Wicks
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| EastEnders character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Paul Nicholls | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1996–1997 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 1267 25 March 1996 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 1532 14 November 1997 |
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| Created by | Ian Aldwinkle | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Family | Beale |
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| Father | David Wicks |
| Mother | Lorraine Wicks |
| Sisters | Karen Wicks |
| Half-sisters | Bianca Jackson |
| Grandfathers | Pete Beale |
| Grandmothers |
Pat Evans Hazel Foster |
| Uncles |
Simon Wicks Ian Beale |
Joseph "Joe" Wicks is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Paul Nicholls. He appears on screen between 25 March 1996 and 14 November 1997. EastEnders was praised for the character's portrayal of schizophrenia.
Joe arrives in Albert Square from Bolton in 1996, looking for his father, David Wicks (Michael French), following the death of his sister Karen. At first, David rejects his son, and sends him home. However, after Joe runs away again and turns up at David's, he becomes more receptive. Eventually Joe and his mother Lorraine (Jacqueline Leonard) move to London and Joe moves in with David. Karen's death has seriously affected Joe and he blames himself because the day Karen died, they had had an argument over who would sit in the front seat of the car. Joe won and Karen was in the back when a lorry crashed into the car. Karen was badly injured and died whilst Joe was barely injured at all. This leads to Joe developing schizophrenia and exhibiting increasingly strange behaviour. Whilst suffering from schizophrenia, Joe attempts suicide and hides Nellie Ellis's (Elizabeth Kelly) dead cat Mandoo in a box in his bedroom and shocks his father when he covers his room with old newspaper articles relating to aliens.
While in Walford, Joe gets engaged to Sarah Hills (Daniela Denby-Ashe) but has a one-night stand with his second cousin, Mary Flaherty (Melanie Clark Pullen). This makes him realise that he is too young to get married, so he calls off the engagement. He and his mother, Lorraine, leave in 1997, returning to Bolton although Joe reportedly reconciles with Sarah many years later. In 2012, when David visits his mother, Pat (Pam St. Clement), he tells her that Joe has a girlfriend who has children and that he stayed with them for a while but it did not work out. However, when David is arguing with Carol Jackson (Lindsey Coulson), it is revealed that Joe and David have lost contact and he has no address for his son.
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