EastEnders star Balvinder Sopal adds a very unexpected name to the Christmas murder victim line-up
EastEnders fans have spent the past nine months trying to work out who the body on the Queen Vic floor on Christmas Day will be, but after a shortlist of seven men was confirmed, theories began flying around suggesting that this may be a red herring.
As it stands, Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara), Rocky Cotton (Brian Conley), Jack Branning (Scott Maslen), Nish Panesar (Navin Chowdhry), Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters), Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and Dean Wicks (Matt Di Angelo) are the men in the frame, but could this just be a distraction?
Each of the women involved in the murder are connected to these men in some way, with some being connected to more than one.
Suki Panesar (Balvinder Sopal) has had a very traumatic year, the events of which would be enough to push anyone to breaking point.
With Nish and Ravi being the main sources of her misery, could one of them be the man set to meet their maker on Christmas Day?
‘We find Suki in a real conundrum because Eve has gone missing, and Suki doesn’t know where or why or how. Over the course of the week she kind of starts to piece things together and it feels like things are leading all the way back to Ravi and Nish.
‘She knows that they could potentially have a very good hand in Eve’s disappearance, because they’re villains.
‘Ravi has a history because he killed Ranveer, and also Nish as well, he killed the man that he thought Suki was having an affair with so they’re both dangerous people.
‘There’s a real kind of danger around Eve going missing and the key players within that so Suki is just trying to find her feet with it all.’
However, these are not the only two characters Balvinder suspects may need to watch their backs.
‘Letitia Dean said something really interesting and true, she said every man is an obvious choice depending on who the woman in question is.
‘So for Suki, the obvious choice would be Ravi and Nish. I don’t know who else could have potentially crossed her, I mean she has had beef with Ian before…’
It isn’t just Suki who has a connection to Ian, with Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) having already tried to kill him in the past, and Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) having to put up with his antics as his mother.
Plus, during their toast about men getting what they deserve, Kathy mentioned the men that take her for granted – and no one has done that more than Ian over the years.
Could Balvinder be onto something by throwing Ian’s name into the ring?
