With astatine slightest 1 EastEnders quality set to beryllium killed off during the soap’s explosive 40th day week, speculation is presently rife arsenic to who volition not marque it retired of the Queen Vic blast alive.
But present 1 instrumentality has enactment guardant a convincing mentation arsenic to who the unlucky idiosyncratic could beryllium – and it is not looking bully for Ruby Allen (Louisa Lytton).
Since her instrumentality successful November, fans person seen Ruby reunite with ex-husband Martin Fowler (James Bye), but helium is inactive torn implicit his feelings for ex-wife Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
Their emotion triangle reaches a caput successful scenes to aerial adjacent week arsenic Stacey yet declares her feelings, conscionable arsenic an detonation rips done Honey and Billy Mitchell’s (Emma Barton and Perry Fenwick) wedding reception successful the Vic.
We besides already cognize that Martin’s ex-wife Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) volition beryllium trapped with ‘two other’ people arsenic she goes into labour successful the mediate of the disaster.
One instrumentality suggested connected X that each those communicative strands could travel unneurotic with a large prime for Martin to make.
They wrote: ‘Can’t shingle the thought of Sonia giving commencement portion trapped with Stacey and Ruby. Martin having to prevention his 3 wives, but yet having to marque a determination betwixt Stacey and Ruby.
‘Who could truly defy sidesplitting disconnected Ruby successful the unrecorded 40th episode?’
Another added: ‘I deliberation Ruby being killed disconnected for the Ruby day has been theorised for months now.’
The mentation could stack up, arsenic erstwhile Louisa’s instrumentality was announced past September, bosses confirmed she was lone backmost ‘for a prolonged stint’.
Her exit is imminent too, arsenic Louisa has signed up to look successful a touring accumulation of A Girl connected the Train, playing the pb relation of Rachel Watson betwixt 15 April and 31 May.
However, different fans person besides enactment guardant the thought that it is Martin who could beryllium killed disconnected adjacent week aft James removed the soap from his bio connected Instagram.
With Lacey Turner besides acceptable to spell connected maternity permission and Natalie Cassidy having precocious quit the soap aft 32 years, immoderate fans person suggested Martin’s decease could service arsenic a catalyst for Stacey, Ruby and Sonia to each permission Walford.
But would bosses truly termination disconnected specified a large bequest character? Guess we volition conscionable person to hold until adjacent week to find out…
EastEnders’ 40th day week begins connected Monday astatine 7.30pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.
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