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"EastEnders star Luisa Bradshaw-White has hinted that she wants a long future with the soap. The actress has been on screen as Shirley Carter&amp;#039;s sister Tina since November last year.  Bradshaw-White has now revealed that EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins wants Tina to have staying power on Albert Square. She told The Sun&amp;#039;s TV Magazine: &amp;quot;Dominic has talked about Dot Branning when he&amp;#039;s mentioned me being in the show for a long time. That&amp;#039;s a long time, but I do really love the job. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never really been someone who&amp;#039;s hungry to work here and there. I&amp;#039;m too old to have any major ambitions. Plus, the EastEnders studios aren&amp;#039;t far from where I live and I&amp;#039;m a lazy actor!&amp;quot; Tina&amp;#039;s current storyline has seen her planning to start a family with girlfriend Tosh. In real life, Bradshaw-White has been with her partner Annette for 15 years.  Discussing EastEnders&amp;#039; portrayal of gay and lesbian characters, she continued: &amp;quot;EastEnders is showing real life. That&amp;#039;s why I said I&amp;#039;d do the show, because Dominic Treadwell-Collins was creating a character in Tina that has a lot to her and she&amp;#039;s gay. &amp;quot;Not just, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s the Asian one, that&amp;#039;s the lesbian one&amp;#039; etc. That&amp;#039;s what I think the other shows are still doing. We&amp;#039;ve got to move forward. There has to be a story. You can&amp;#039;t just be gay. And there is a lot more to Tina.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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