Reception
Taylor told Sharon Marshall in 2000, that following the storyline where Irene had an affair with a toy boy, she was harassed by younger men: "I get letters from young men outlining exactly what they want to do to me. They're pretty detailed. I even get sex offers in the street. One guy, a very pretty boy in his twenties, sent me a letter containing all the explicit things he would like to do to Irene. It was shocking. Another guy marched up to me in a London store and demanded to know if he was young enough to go to bed with me."
The Christmas Day 1999 scenes in EastEnders involving Terry, Troy and Irene were described as "compelling viewing" by Merle Brown, critic for the Daily Record. He added, "All three played their parts excellently, especially Gavin Richards as Terry, who actually made you feel heartfelt sorrow for his usually despicable character."
The character of Irene was praised by Gareth Mclean, television critic of The Guardian, who noted the development that had occurred in her narrative: "When Irene first appeared in Walford she was a harpie in a satinette dressing gown. But her transformation into sympathetic, thwarted heroine complete. Never entirely happy with Terry - and even less so since her plundering of Troy and when broke, the torrent of rage, frustration, self- loathing and self-doubt that Roberta Taylor unleashed was undeniably moving."
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