PUB'S IN THE BLOOD

EastEnder Rose's ancestor was tough landlady like Vic's Peggy

- SARA WALLIS

SHE once chucked a drink over someone in The Queen Vic while playing Frankie in EastEnders.

So it is fitting that actress Rose Ayling-Ellis discovered a real-life formidable pub landlady in her family tree.

Like Peggy Mitchell, her three-times great-grandmother Agnes ran a boozer with an iron fist, throwing out drunks and even slapping one punter's face.

Rose, 29, who traced her family connections on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, says: "It's like EastEnders. I chucked a drink in someone's face, so I feel like it's in my blood."