Millers' media ploy goes pear-shaped

The Millers, in a desperate attempt to find Albert Square desertee Demi, agree to get the media involved.

12:14 03 August 2005

The Millers, in a desperate attempt to find Albert Square desertee Demi, agree to get the media involved.

Demi has left home with her daughter Aleesha and boyfriend Leo - the Millers found out last night that Leo is probably taking heroin, and that Demi might be using too.

When a reporter from the Walford Gazette comes to interview the desperate family, Keith can't control himself and the family's bid to use the press to get closer to Demi falls apart.

"Mickey is furious with Keith's lack of control and Rosie fears the bad press will never bring Demi back," said an insider on the Walford soap.

But the media disaster has at least one positive - after the Gazette publishes an unfavourable story about Leo, Rosie, whose daughter and granddaughter are missing, realises there's no more point in hiding away.

"Rosie decides to face the residents of Albert Square and is pleasantly surprised by the amount of support and sympathy she receives," said the EastEnders mole.