Holy throwback! (Picture: BBC)
Saskia Duncan had a short, but incredibly dramatic stint in EastEnders, 27 years ago, with her gruesome demise going down as one of the most memorable deaths in soap history.
Saskia first appeared on New Year’s Eve 1998, before being slain on Valentines Day, 1999.
Nearly three decades on from her fatal meeting with an ashtray, though, actress Deborah Sheridan-Taylor has completely reinvented herself.
She know works as a personal stylist, image consultant and interior designer and even owns her own company, DST Designs.
Long-time EastEnders fans were delighted to catch up with Deborah and heaped praise on the numerous fierce looks she displayed on her social media feed.
One of her most recent social media posts highlighted how her brand is all about ‘refresh, reconfigure, reimagine’, setting out her approach to her work.
Deborah previously reunited with Tamzin Outhwaite in her new line of work (Picture: Instagram/dstdesigns)
‘What if I told you that your wardrobe is already full of possibilities?,’ she begins.
‘In this Outfit Building session, I took my client’s existing pieces and completely transformed how she sees and wears them.
‘This client has been working with me for about four years now, everything she is wearing has been bought through me, either first hand or we also shop Preloved for wardrobe enrichment.
‘Switching up colour combinations, original thinking, accessories and silhouettes.
‘The result? She described it as ‘a whole new wardrobe!’ without buying a single new item. This is the power of strategic styling. If your wardrobe feels uninspired, let’s redefine it together.’
In her new line of work, Deborah reunited with former on-screen love rival, Tamzin Outhwaite who played Mel Owen, the woman Saskia competed with for the heart of gangster du jour, Steve Owen (Martin Kemp).
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She shared an image of the two hugging after a successful day of styling at Harvey Nichols for an upcoming photoshoot.
Deborah continued her acting career post-Enders, appearing in Headless, Murphy’s Law, Holby City, Doctors, Casualty and Birds of a Feather, with her most recent role coming in An Ordinary Monday in 2017.
Fans first glimpse of her new enterprise came when she appeared on Channel 4’s property show Grand Designs back in 2014, detailing how she transformed her London pad.
Saskia Duncan in EastEnders
The unhinged femme fatale blew into Walford as the ex-girlfriend of Steve, who’d since moved on with Mel, something Saskia found utterly unbearable.
Obsessive, unstable and down right violent, she began a stalking campaign against Steve and Mel. When she ultimately succeeded in luring Steve back to bed, she was dealt a mortal wound when he rejected her once again.
Drunkenly approaching Mel and Steve at his club, the then-e20, her revelation of their night together drove Mel away, before she unveiled her plot to annihilate his life, just as he had hers.
If Saskia couldn’t have Steve, nobody could (Picture: BBC)
Finally driven completely mad after a forced abortion and his constant manipulation, Saskia smashed a bottle around Steve’s head and tried to choke him to death with his own tie. Steve retaliated with an ashtray, clobbering his psychotic ex with it, later burying her body alongside his young club DJ, Matthew Rose (Joe Absolom).
Though they buried her corpse in Epping Forest, she was eventually found, with Steve framing Matthew for the murder.
In 2019, twenty years later, Steve’s son, Hunter Owen (Charlie Winter) murdered his step dad, Ray Kelly (Seán Mahon), with Mel burying his body in the same place Steve did Saskia’s.
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