List of East Enders Characters (2009) - Joel Reynolds

Joel C. Reynolds, played by Cavan Clerkin, is the first love of character Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack), having fathered her daughter, Danielle Jones (Lauren Crace), when they were both 14 years old. Danielle was killed off in the show in April 2009. Joel has been mentioned several times since Ronnie joined the show in 2007, most notably when she attends a school reunion hoping he will be there, and then goes to his house to talk, but one of his daughters answers the door, so she leaves. Ronnie also writes him a letter to tell him their daughter died 13 years previously, although this was a lie told by her father Archie Mitchell (Larry Lamb), and Joel writes back, but Archie destroys the letter before Ronnie can read it.

EastEnders executive producer Diederick Santer said on Clerkin's casting: " is a delightful and subtle actor with a big funny bone. He's grabbed this enigmatic and rather odd character and made it his own." Clerkin said of Joel: " is a nice guy who fantasises about a future with an amazingly beautiful woman, so that's something a lot of men may relate to!"