EastEnders actor Kellie Bright has revealed her friend’s reaction to Linda Carter being the Christmas Day killer.
The soap had spent almost all of 2023 teasing that someone would be killed in the Queen Vic on December 25, and that The Six — half a dozen Walford women — were the main suspects. As it turns out, Linda was the killer and Keanu Taylor was the victim.
A few months on from the revelation, Bright appeared on The One Show tonight (April 10) and recalled how her friends reacted to the big revelation.
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“I did watch it at home on Christmas Day with my husband, my kids were in bed, finally, and my best friends were there,” she said. “My husband knew but my best friends didn’t, and they’re huge fans.
“And I was literally sat on my sofa next to my friend, and he was going, ‘Oh no! Oh no, no, no!’, like he could stop me by holding my hand. It was a really lovely moment actually, to watch their reaction.”
She added that she was “really surprised” Linda ended up being the killer, explaining: “I really did not see it coming at all. I thought I’d be the last person that would do it. When it was explained to me how it would happen, I thought, ‘Okay, I can sort of see. She doesn’t intend to kill him, she’s stopping him from killing her best friend.’
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“It’s a moment of desperation, madness, chaos,” she added. “I’ve been on the show 10 years now and I thought it was a great episode. I was very proud to be a part of it.”
Since the murder, The Six have been desperately trying to cover it up and this week has seen them try and pin it on Dean Wicks… but Linda’s risky plan may end up ruining everything.
EastEnders airs on Mondays – Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast. The One Show airs at 7pm on BBC One on weekdays.
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