Janet "Jan" Hammond is a fictional character from the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Jane How.
She appeared in 1986 as the long-term mistress of "Dirty" Den Watts. Jan was a posh upper-class sort of woman and worked at an art gallery. Den had been having an affair with her while he was still married to Angie Watts. She was always hated by Angie and Den's adopted daughter Sharon Watts but she tried her best to get along with her. She...
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Janet "Jan" Hammond is a fictional character from the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Jane How.
She appeared in 1986 as the long-term mistress of "Dirty" Den Watts. Jan was a posh upper-class sort of woman and worked at an art gallery. Den had been having an affair with her while he was still married to Angie Watts. She was always hated by Angie and Den's adopted daughter Sharon Watts but she tried her best to get along with her. She moved into the Queen Vic at one point with Den's insistence but wasn't much of a landlady so moved out soon after.
Den tried to leave Angie for Jan so he told Angie he was leaving her. Angie grew desperate and in order to stop him from leaving her she lied to him by saying she had six months to live. Den believed her but discovered many months later that she had been lying while they were on holiday in Venice. In one of EastEnders most famous storylines he divorced her on Christmas Day 1986.
Eventually Jan grew tired of Den not having a...
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