Critics often attack drama's such as The Bill and Holby City for being populated by ex-soap stars so we've decided to put that to the test. Over the next few weeks we'll being taking a look at the different casts of our continuing drama's to see how many of them really are ex-soap stars.

With news that Maggie O'Neil, of Shameless fame (who played our favourite character in the series, Shelia Jackson) is set to join EastEnders in the summer we cast our eye over other actresses and actors we'd like to see join the Capital soap.