Dirty Den Watts

Dennis 'Dirty Den' Watts is a character on the BBC evening soap opera Eastenders.

Den was married to Angie (played by Anita Dobson) and together they managed the Albert Square pub, the Queen Victoria. Den was notorious for his extramarital affairs and shady dealings, which earned him his nickname. The affairs included ones with Michelle Fowler (then sixteen, who bore him a daughter, Vicki), Jan Hammond and Paula Rickman, who bore him a son, Dennis.

Den was shot in 1989 by a hitman and presumed dead. However in 2003 it was revealed that the death was faked, and he has since returned to Albert Square.

It was recently revealed he owed the local video shop £9,000 because in 1988 he rented out Porky's II and never returned it, even though he was supposedly dead.

The nightclub "Angie's Den" (formerly E20, after Walford's fictional postcode) was named after the Watts by their daughter Sharon.

Dennis Watts is played by Leslie Grantham.