{"id":141631,"date":"2018-06-15T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leslie-grantham-eastenders-actor-dies-aged-71\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:30:30","slug":"leslie-grantham-eastenders-actor-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leslie-grantham-eastenders-actor-dies-aged-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Grantham: EastEnders actor dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      Grantham had been living in Bulgaria                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">EastEnders actor Leslie Grantham, best known as the roguish &quot;Dirty Den\u201d Watts in the BBC One soap, has died aged 71.<\/p>\n<p>The actor appeared in EastEnders from 1985 to 1989 and later returned to his signature role from 2003 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows news earlier this week that Grantham had returned to the UK from Bulgaria to receive medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from his agent said he died on Friday morning and that a private funeral would be held.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obituary: Leslie Grantham<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grantham shot to fame when he was cast as Den Watts, the landlord of the east London public house around which the action in EastEnders revolves.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 million viewers tuned in to watch a Christmas Day episode in 1986, in which his character handed divorce papers to his on-screen wife Angie.<\/p>\n<p>Grantham&#039;s life was not without controversy. In 1966 he was convicted of murdering a German taxi driver while serving as a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2004 he was revealed to have taken part in webcam sex sessions from his EastEnders dressing room at Elstree Studios.<\/p>\n<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presentational grey line\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/media\/images\/76020000\/jpg\/_76020974_line976.jpg\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p>Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Grantham had been living in Bulgaria EastEnders actor Leslie Grantham, best known as the roguish &quot;Dirty Den\u201d Watts in the BBC One soap, has died aged 71. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}