Olive Woodhouse made her first appearance on 17 April 2007, and her last appearance on 20 July 2010. She was portrayed by Sylvia Syms.
Backstory[]
Olive is a friend of Peggy Mitchell's whom she has known since childhood. She is a dress fitter and the owner of Magic Moments.
Storylines[]
On 17 April 2007, Peggy calls in Olive and they get cracking on Stella's dress.
On 25 June 2007, she fits Stella Crawford's wedding dress and criticises her taste, making her angry.
On 5 March 2009, she fits Peggy's wedding dress and she takes an instant dislike to Peggy's niece and future stepdaughter Roxy. The wedding dress she creates for Peggy is slightly provocative and Peggy's fiancé Archie sees the plans and purposely walks in, seeing Peggy in the dress, making her want to change it in fear of bad luck. She then notices Janine Butcher following Archie and grows suspicious, thinking they are having an affair. She asks Archie, who then tells her that now they are paying for another dress, he wants to make some changes making the new dress less revealing.
She returns again on 27 July 2010, when Peggy, Roxy, her sister Ronnie and their mother Glenda arrive at her bridal shop to find a dress for Ronnie's wedding to Jack Branning. Olive feels insulted when Roxy insults the dresses. When Ronnie finds a dress she likes, Olive returns with them to The Queen Victoria to make adjustments. However, whilst Olive is making the adjustments, Ronnie tears the dress off and runs out of the pub when the conversation turns to her father.