With this week’s revelation that Ronnie’s finally going to find out she’s Danielle’s mum, we thought we’d take a look at some of the mums from hell who’ve featured in our soaps… and there are a lot of contenders!

Let’s start with EastEnders and one of the very worst mums – well, step-mum anyway – has to be evil Stella who tormented poor little Ben by relentlessly bullying him, hurting him and cruelly manipulating him until, on their wedding day, Ben’s dad Phil finally found out what she’d been doing and she ended up squished like a bug on the roof of a car after jumping off the roof of a building. And good riddance to her I say!

And let’s not forget Louise Raymond, who, having abandoned her kids Tiffany and Simon in their teens, Louise turned up in the Square in 1998 and it seemed she wanted to make amends… right up until she slept with her daughter’s husband Grant! Read more & comment »