EastEnders confirms Sonia Fowler's baby name after landmark public vote for live episode
It's a nod to the past.
Viewers got the chance to make not one but two important decisions for the future of EastEnders today.
Ahead of the live show, fans had the chance to pick who Denise Fox (Diane Parish) would end up with, and what Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) would name her baby.
In a nod to EastEnders' past, viewers were asked to pick if she should call her baby "Julia" or "Toni", after Julia Smith and Tony Holland, the original creators of the BBC soap.
After voting for just under 24 hours, fans have decided that Sonia should name her baby Julia.
Sonia gave birth in the live episode with beloved sister Bianca Jackson (Patsy Palmer) and pregnant cousin Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa) by her side, only steps away from the corpse of the child's father, killer Reiss Colwell (Jonny Freeman).
As Bianca delivered the baby, Bianca begged nurse Sonia for medical advice as the baby was blue but as Sonia eventually attended to her, the baby finally began to cry, to the trio's jubilation.
The paramedics soon arrived to attend to them, to a sarcastic response from Bianca.
The trio and the baby soon left the pub to the delight of the whole crowd outside.
In the ambulance, Sonia spoke with love to her baby as a voiceover revealed her name as baby Julia.
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