Jo Joyner's 'EastEnders' departure is for the sake of her children. The actress revealed she hasn't seen her twins - three-year-old son Freddie and daughter Edie - enough since their birth and worried she would miss out by being away so much. Jo - who has played mother Tanya Cross since 2006 - had to go through IVF treatment before she and actor husband Neil Madden could have children and now she wants to enjoy her family life as much as she can. She told The Sun newspaper's TV Magazine: ''I'm not frightened of hard work but I had three months of six-day...
- 6/1/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Jo Joyner is taking a break from 'EastEnders'. The 34-year-old actress - who plays cancer survivor Tanya Branning in the BBC One soap - has decided she wants some time away from the show when her contract expires next year. Jo has three-year-old twins, daughter Edie and son Freddie, with her actor husband Neil Madden and she wants to spend some quality time without worrying about her hectic filming schedule. According to the Daily Star newspaper, Jo told a friend: ''It's been pretty full-on and the rest of the year is going to be even more dramatic because the Brannings have got...
- 5/1/2012
- Virgin Media - TV
Jo Joyner admits her cancer storyline in 'EastEnders' is taking its toll on her emotions. The 33-year-old actress plays cervical cancer victim Tanya Branning in the BBC One soap and although she didn't think the tough scenes were affecting her at home, her husband Neil Madden is worried about how "miserable" the hard-hitting plot is making her off set. She told the Daily Star newspaper: "Rather than it making me depressed after filming those difficult scenes I tend to go home relieved that it's not my life. "I go home and laugh even more hysterically than I would normally because...
- 2/22/2012
- Virgin Media - TV
EastEnders star Jo Joyner has spoken of her relief at having children after years of IVF treatment. The actress, who plays Tanya - the estranged wife of Max Branning - on the Albert Square soap, showed off her newborn twins on ITV1's This Morning. Joyner, who was told that she had little chance of conceiving with husband Neil Madden, gave birth to (more)...
- 3/9/2010
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
'EastEnders' actress Jo Joyner sleeps in shifts since the birth of her twins. The star - who plays Tanya Branning in the soap - recently gave birth to Freddie and Edie and now has to sleep in a separate bed to her husband Neil Madden. She said: ''We tried single parenting in the early days - he'd have one downstairs and I'd have the other one upstairs. But he always seemed to get the easy one and I'd get the one with colic. ''With this shift work you have to say to each other, 'I'll see you in a year'. I ..
- 1/26/2010
- Virgin Media - TV
'EastEnders' star Jo Joyner has given birth to twins. The actress - who plays Tanya Branning in the BBC soap - had a little boy and girl last month although no further information has been given. Her agent refused to reveal any more details, saying it was ''too private right now''. It is though Jo and her actor husband Neil Madden have signed an exclusive deal with a glossy magazine to show off her new son and daughter. During her pregnancy Jo - who conceived through IVF treatment - told how she was quite sick in her first trimester. She said: ''I was very sick ..
- 1/15/2010
- Virgin Media - TV
EastEnders star Jo Joyner has admitted that she wouldn't want to take part in an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap. The actress's Walford character Tanya Branning will be seen swapping lives and husbands with Jane Beale (Laurie Brett) on the BBC One soap this week. In an interview with We Love Telly, Joyner confessed that she wouldn't be so quick to spend time away from her real-life husband Neil Madden. On the prospect of a reality TV swap, she commented: "I wouldn't (more)...
- 9/21/2009
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
EastEnders star Jo Joyner has spoken about her decision to undergo IVF treatment. The 32-year-old actress, who plays Tanya Branning on the BBC One soap, is currently expecting twins with her husband Neil Madden, 31. She announced her happy news in July. In a new interview, Joyner has revealed that she struggled to conceive for four years before trying IVF. She went on to fall pregnant after just one cycle of the treatment. "You go for fertility tests and we found out it was unlikely we'd have children naturally so we went for it," she told Ok magazine. "We're quite young and there was (more)...
- 9/15/2009
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
EastEnders actress Jo Joyner has announced that she is expecting twins with her husband Neil Madden. The 31-year-old, who plays salon owner Tanya Branning, is to be written out of the show towards the end of the year and storyliners are currently paving the way for her screen departure. Last night, Joyner said she that and her husband Madden are "absolutely delighted" (more)...
- 7/13/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
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