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This week’s EastEnders has seen Tommy Moon (Sonny Kendall) removed from Kat Slater’s (Jessie Wallace) attraction aft assaulting her and his younger brothers.
Tommy’s unit was discovered by Jean Slater (Gillian Wright), who called societal services successful a bid to enactment a halt to it.
When societal services arrived astatine the household home, Kat defended Tommy, contempt his unit towards her.
Now, fans are wondering if this is acceptable to nexus backmost to a erstwhile storyline, which was 1 of EastEnders’ astir arguable ever.
Taking to Twitter/X, EastEnders instrumentality Alessia questioned whether this storyline whitethorn extremity up linking backmost to the infamous babe swap storyline.
‘I wonderment if this Tommy storyline is going to nexus backmost to the babe swap?’ She questioned. ‘With however Kat is wanting to overprotect Tommy truthful much, adjacent though she knows he’s retired of control.’
Other EastEnders fans were speedy to agree, with Angel suggesting ‘it would beryllium good’ if the 2 stories were linked.
What was the babe swap storyline?
In 2010, Kat fell large astir the aforesaid clip arsenic Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack), and they some gave commencement connected the aforesaid day.
However, calamity struck for Ronnie erstwhile her son, James, died of abrupt babe decease syndrome.
After proceeding babe Tommy cry, she made her mode into the Queen Vic and swapped the babies.
Several months later, Ronnie yet came cleanable astir what she’d done, and gave babe Tommy backmost to Kat and Alfie Moon (Shane Richie).
She was past sent to situation for her crime.
The storyline was hugely arguable and garnered a whopping 13,400 complaints to the BBC and Ofcom from horrified fans.
The backlash was truthful beardown that the storyline really ended up being chopped shorter than was primitively intended.
All of that said, Ofcom yet cleared the soap, explaining that portion the scenes connected their ain could beryllium perceived arsenic offensive, they were wrong the boundaries successful the wider discourse of a amusement known for tackling pugnacious issues.
‘I retrieve backmost erstwhile it happened and Kat got Tommy back, she was disquieted that the clip isolated would pb to problems successful their relationship,’ they added.
‘I hadn’t thought of that but it does marque sense,’ chap instrumentality Amanda added.
Are these fans onto something? Could EastEnders beryllium acceptable to notation their astir arguable storyline of each time?
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