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Luke Browning (previously Willmott-Brown) made his first appearance on 31 March 1987 and is portrayed by Henry Power. In 2017, when the character returned, Adam Astill took over the role.

Storylines[]

1987-1992[]

Luke Willmott-Brown first appeared in March 1987, visiting his father, James Willmott Brown, with his sister, Sophie Willmott-Brown. They returned to live with their mother in July. During their stay, they become friendly with Emine Osman, Rayif Osman and Murat Osman.

Luke appears once again in January 1992, following James' release from prison.

2017[]

In May 2017, Max Branning receives a visiting order from Luke's uncle, Hugo Browning, and goes to visit Luke. It is revealed that Luke and Max are former cellmates who met when Max was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of Lucy Beale.

In September 2017, Luke is released from prison and Max picks him up. They travel to the home of their boss and Luke's father, James. Luke becomes close to Ben Mitchell and, after sleeping together in Mitchell's Autos, they become boyfriends.

In November 2017, Ben finds a business card in Luke's wallet with the words "Project Dagmar" inked in. Ben knows that Dagmar is the bar in which Luke's dad, James, raped Ben's mother Kathy Beale in. After questioning him, Luke throws him up against a car and throttles him.

A few days later, Jay Brown lets slip to Lauren Branning that Luke throttled Ben. Lauren, who works at Weyland & Co (the company which Wilmott-Brown owns) asks her boss Josh Hemmings (who turns out to be Luke's half-brother) what Project Dagmar is. He says he doesn't know. Upon asking Luke, he is also throttled by him, and would have killed him if Fi hadn't intervened.

In December 2017, Luke gifts Ben a car. Ben asks him to take it back, and Luke pays a visit. After Ben insulted Luke, Luke pushed him over, prompting Ben to declare he is not scared of him and he begins to whack a wrench about. When he puts it down, however, Luke beats him unconscious. Ben is revealed to be alive and is vowing to kill Luke in his hospital bed.

Luke stands by James, Fi and Max as they serve the Carter family an eviction notice for the Queen Victoria pub.

During the fallout, Luke asks Ingrid Solberg if she knows Max and she takes him to the Branning residence. Luke dumps the contents of Max's desk at Weyland & Co on his doorstep. Max grabs him by the collar but Jack stops him and throws Luke out.

When Luke walks into the café, Kathy tells him to get out after he assaulted Ben. Kathy tells him that she won't serve him, then Luke tells her that they own the place.

During the fallout of the Willmott-Brown reveal, Luke asks if he can talk to Lauren in private. He asks her if she can serve the eviction notice to Kathy and says he will fire her if she does not. She appears to accept but she returns and throws the papers in his face. Luke gives Josh a contract termination letter to give to Lauren. Later, Luke is bundled into a van by two masked men as Phil Mitchell looks on. Aidan Maguire later confirms that he has killed Luke.

DI Stephan Franklin confirms to Vincent Hubbard that Luke's body turned up in a canal. Ray Kelly also tells Phil that Luke's body turned up in a canal, Ray blackmails Phil into signing half of his night club over to Mel Owen after Ray had found out about Phil's role in Luke's death.

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