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Victoria Louise "Vicki" Fowler is the daughter of Michelle Fowler and Den Watts. She is the half-sister of Mark Fowler JrDennis Rickman and Sharon Watts. She made her first appearance on 27 May 1986.

Backstory[]

16-year-old Michelle Fowler gets pregnant in 1985 after a one-night stand with her best friend Sharon Watts' father, Den Watts. Her family decide that Michelle should have an abortion but she refuses - deciding to keep the baby but not revealing who the father is.

Storylines[]

1986-1989: Birth, secret father, Lofty and meningitis[]

Vicki, named in honour of her great-grandparents Lou and Albert Beale, is born in May 1986 and Den is allowed to hold her but he and Michelle agree that he should keep his distance so that nobody guesses that he is her father. Michelle raises Vicki with her fiancé, Lofty Holloway, who she marries after jilting him at the altar. Den provides for Vicki secretly, giving Michelle money towards her.

After Sue Osman realises that she has had a phantom pregnancy, she is devastated and suggests to Michelle that she lets her and Ali Osman adopt Vicki, which infuriates Michelle.

Vicki's grandmother, Pauline Fowler, realises that Den is Vicki's father when she sees him give money to Michelle and slaps him.

Lofty begins to pressure Michelle to let him adopt Vicki and have another child but their marriage soon breaks down after Michelle has an abortion and Michelle refuses to name Vicki's father upon Lofty's departure in 1988.

When Den is shot and presumed dead in 1989, Michelle tells Sharon that Vicki is her half-sister and Sharon is devastated whilst Arthur Fowler is furious. Vicki survives meningitis but Doctor Legg fails to diagnose it. This health scare reunites Michelle and Sharon.

1990-1995: On the run, kidnap and leaving Walford[]

Michelle decides to go on the run with Clyde Tavernier after he is accused of murdering Eddie Royle, taking Vicki and Clyde's son, Kofi Tavernier, with them. Michelle and Clyde are caught by the police when they try to flee the country. Vicki and Kofi are taken to a children's home but are later collected by their grandmothers.

In 1993, Vicki is kidnapped when a woman, Audrey Whittingham, takes her from outside her school. A national police investigation is launched and Vicki is returned home safely.

When Michelle is shot by Dougie Briggs in 1994, Vicki discovers that she is Sharon's half-sister when she stays with Sharon and her husband, Grant Mitchell. Sharon explains things to Vicki. Michelle is furious with Sharon about Vicki knowing and the truth about Vicki's paternity spreads. Michelle's auntie, Kathy Beale, is upset about not being told by Michelle herself, finding out from Mandy Salter.

In October 1995, Michelle and 9-year-old Vicki leave Walford for Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States.

2003-2004: Back in Walford, gaining a brother and Den's return[]

A teenage Vicki returns to Walford in January 2003 when she runs away from home. She has been arguing regularly with Michelle and it is decided that she can stay in Walford. After clashing with Pauline, Vicki moves in with Sharon. Manipulative and mischievous, Vicki does as she pleases. Just weeks later, she discovers that she and Sharon have a half-brother, Dennis Rickman, and persuades him to move to Walford.

When she becomes pregnant by Spencer Moon, Sharon, who believes she is infertile, offers Vicki £10,000 to give her the baby to bring up as her own. Spencer wants to be a father but Vicki terminates the pregnancy.

Dennis soon tells Vicki that Den, who had supposedly died in 1989, is alive and living in Spain. She brings him back to the Square to reunite with his family.

Vicki is horrified to discover that Sharon and Dennis have started a romantic relationship. Although they aren't biologically related, Vicki cannot accept it and rebels by dating Ash Ferreira, which ends when he realises that she is using him to get at her siblings. Eventually, Vicki and Den's objections take their toll on Sharon and Dennis and they end the relationship.

In 2004, an 18-year-old Vicki starts a relationship with her 46-year-old college lecturer, Tommy Grant. Her family, particularly stepmother Chrissie Watts, are outraged. Tommy feigns love for Vicki and they talk about leaving Walford to go travelling. Knowing that Tommy is untrustworthy, Chrissie attempts to seduce him. After a brief kiss, Chrissie strips him naked in the toilets of The Queen Victoria on the promise that she will soon join him. She steals his clothes and forces Vicki to see him for the lying cheat he is. Vicki is devastated and initially furious with Chrissie but eventually realises that she had her best interests at heart.

During a family meal on Christmas Day 2004, Sharon and Dennis announce that they have resumed their romantic relationship, only for Dennis's girlfriend Zoe Slater to announce that she is pregnant. Sharon decides to go to America alone and persuades Dennis to stay with Zoe and their baby - no realising this was a lie conjured up by Den. Den talks to Sharon alone, trying to persuade her to stay. Vicki overhears him say that he does not love Vicki as much as he loves Sharon. Deciding that she cannot live with such a father, Vicki decides to return to her mother in America.

It is later revealed that she has moved to Australia and reunited with Spencer. In January 2014, Sharon tells Spencer's brother, Alfie Moon, that they need someone to help them open a bar in Sydney, so Alfie goes there for a few weeks to work with them.

When Lofty returns to Walford in 2019, he gives Martin Fowler a cheque of £20,000 to give to Vicki.

See also[]

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