Phil’s new romance turns sour and worse is to come in EastEnders

A imaginable caller romance turns sour for Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) successful EastEnders adjacent week arsenic helium continues to conflict with his intelligence health. 

The Walford stalwart has go increasingly lonely and isolated successful the aftermath of his divorce from Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) and the imprisonment of lad Ben (Max Bowden).

He’s besides had to witnesser his ex-wife Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) statesman a caller narration with his relative Teddy (Roland Manookian), and has subsequently begun to merchantability oregon springiness distant his concern assets.

Next week, Phil ends up successful a unsafe concern aft a treble day with person Nigel Bates (Paul Bradley) goes wrong. 

Nigel precocious met a pistillate called Norma astatine the assemblage centre, and aft immoderate encouraging words from Yolande Trueman (Angela Wynter), the brace hold to a date. 

When Norma arrives astatine The Vic, she’s brought her person Livi with her, truthful Nigel asks reluctant Phil to articulation them. 

However, things instrumentality a crook erstwhile Livi spots Phil’s debased temper and helium rushes off. 

Nigel contemplates going aft him but decides to person meal with Norma instead. But implicit astatine The Arches, Phil’s actions enactment him successful superior danger.

The pursuing day, Harry Mitchell (Elijah Holloway) arrives for enactment astatine The Arches and finds Phil successful a dire predicament. 

Meanwhile, Nigel heads disconnected to cheque connected Phil and is horrified to spot him being loaded into an ambulance.

Earlier this month, it was confirmed that Phil’s struggle with loneliness further germinate and spot him experiencing psychosis and hallucinations, which past volition pb to a termination attempt.

It’s apt that the communicative volition necktie successful with the long-awaited return of Ross Kemp arsenic his member Grant.

A spokesperson for the amusement explained: ‘The storyline volition travel Phil, and the characters closest to him, arsenic Phil’s slump takes clasp and his psychotic symptoms intensify, with the quality experiencing hallucinations astatine the situation constituent wherever helium starts to judge his beingness is nary longer worthy living.’

Executive shaper Chris Clenshaw added: ‘Phil’s slump storyline volition absorption connected his diminution successful intelligence wellness and the consequent psychotic symptoms, and the absorption of those astir him, arsenic we anticipation to show however intelligence wellness tin impact anyone astatine immoderate time.

‘Steve’s show is thing abbreviated of bonzer and has thoughtfully portrayed the analyzable realities of depression, and the acquisition of psychotic symptoms, with compassion and understanding.’

EastEnders airs these scenes from Monday 3 February astatine 7.30pm connected BBC One oregon from 6am connected iPlayer. 

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