EASTENDERS 75 - but more importantly 40yr anniversary. ABSOLUTELY NO SPOILERS !!!

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New thread for the week as old one is almost full

HELLO BRUV

A fab duff duff

Tho why do Grant and Jay think all is fine with Phil. It's obvious he isn't well bless him

Amazing acting By Steve M !!

Many say someone will die this week - I'm saying either Ruby or Reiss

Ruby as Martin needs to be with Stacey and Ruby means 40 !!!

Reiss as fed up with him. It's either jail or death 😂

Stacey and Martin need to get back together. They obviously love each other

Do we really care who hit Cindy over the head - I'm saying Peter

Bianca finally managed to escape. I wish we had a flashback how she managed to get the bag - use the tools in it - escape and get back to the square - all in time to hit reiss with a teapot

If people locked their back doors life would be better for all in the square 😂

Billy and Honey married - do we really care 😂

Linda is sober. Yah !!!

Tommy seems to be ok now living with Zack

Tomorrow is the hour special and a thur the live episode we get every 5yrs or so

How many cock ups will with we have - Must be hard to do live episodes

Been lovely watching the old duff on bbc 4 this week and all the old cast popping in for cameos

The sexy scenes and innuendo with the new Mitchell’s reminded me of the old ‘ carry on’ films from the 70s, which isn’t a good thing!
I think they thought it would be funny or show them in a different light , but it was just cringy.

I really dislike the character of Billy . Does he have any redeeming qualities? Feeling protective and so sorry for the character of Nigel ( My mum has severe dementia)

Oh God yeh, those scenes between them were cringe but I do like her now. They seem to have started to advance Nigel’s dementia all of a sudden. Or is that the nature of the illness. I’m sorry I don’t know x

If you have a go at them and blame them for something yes it would stress them out and make them worse. They wouldn’t be able to comprehend what is being said. I rarely call people thick but Billie is dim.

@kerstina Ah right ok. Thanks. Poor Nigel. He looked so sad and bewildered.

Someone needs to calm Nigel’s wife or claire

100% agree

100% agree

That receptionist knew Phil was not there and had already checked out.... without looking up his name on the screen ?? !

And is she allowed to tell that information to random people ?

Oh my sweet summer child, are you expecting realism from Eastenders? 🤣

Complete overreaction from Billy with Nigel. Why the need to keep so many secrets from Lexi?

Did I hear on the radio that Steve McFadden won a BAFTA? If so he deserved it. The actor playing Nigel is incredible too.

Billy is coming across as a pathetic little man with a Napoleon complex.

Hate when the BAFTA ' results come out before the show !

Oh gosh sorry, I was only half listening and didn't realise the show hadn't aired. It's too late for me to edit but hopefully nobody is upset as it isn't an EE spoiler...

I’m on Billy’s side a little bit. Telling her that Phil tries to shoot himself and has been sectioned is way too much info. Maybe when he came out, then tell her he had been unwell.

also he doesn’t know about Nigel, so it’s reasonable that he would be suspicious of him.

Obviously the way he handled it was terrible and Once Lexi saw the letters he should have come clean.

in other news, I love Nicola and Teddy.

Was anybody arguing that they should tell her her tried to shoot himself? He hasn't been sectioned and I got the impression they wanted to tell her that he was in hospital rather than in Portugal, which is age appropriate (even for Lexi who comes off younger than her years)

They reminded me of the sex people in Alan Partridge.

His hard man act was never convincing,
and getting worse now he is way past sixty.

I would have even fancied Nigel's chances in a straight fight.

Is that Keith Allen?

Yes

This is really well shown. Tho has phil bene gone a month

Blimey that was so well done!
Up and down like a yo-yo and so thought provoking!

The ending made me cry a little. Such a lovely scene.

Shame he didn't ask Keith to stay at his, what with his house being so shit.. they were kindred spirits. Guess Phil didn't need the additional responsibility (and maybe Keith just wanted a quick cameo role 🙂)

@ChonkyRabbit ...no I didn't mean you ...
Just the fact that results are out before the results show has aired ... though I was sure the TV awards thing was May ?

Maybe he has been nominated?