Carmen

Carmen made her first appearance on 15 February 1994. She is portrayed by Amanda Holden.

Storylines
Carmen is employed by Richard Cole to work on Sanjay Kapoor's clothing stall on Bridge Street Market. Carmen begins to pester Richard to give her the licence for the pitch on a permanent basis. However, later that month Sanjay returns, having failed to trace the whereabouts of his estranged wife, Gita Kapoor.

Following this, Carmen begins selling heart-patterned boxer-shorts on the market and a pair are sent anonymously to Richard Cole. Richard assumes they were from a secret admirer, until he sees Carmen selling them the following day. She tells him that they aren't a popular line and that she'd only had one buyer, Sanjay Kapoor. Sanjay had bought them to prank Richard, but as Bianca Jackson and Natalie Price had spent the last few weeks winding him up in a similar way, he does not find the prank amusing.