EastEnders’ Kellie Bright shares her friend’s shocked reaction to Linda’s surprise

EastEnders actress Kellie Bright has revealed her friend’s reaction when Linda Carter emerged as the Christmas Day killer.

The soap had spent most of 2023 hinting that someone would be killed at the Queen Vic on December 25 and that the Six – half a dozen women from Walford – were the prime suspects. It turned out that Linda was the killer and Keanu Taylor the victim.

A few months after the revelation, Bright appeared on The One Show tonight (April 10) and recalled how her friends reacted to the big reveal.

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“I watched it at home on Christmas Day with my husband, my kids were finally in bed and my best friends were there,” she said. “My husband knew, but my best friends didn’t know, and they’re huge fans.”

“I was literally sitting on my couch next to my friend, and he was like, ‘Oh no! Oh no, no, no!’ like he could stop me by holding my hand. It was a really sweet moment actually, seeing their reaction.”

She added that she was “really surprised” that Linda became the killer, explaining: “I really didn’t see it coming. I thought I’d be the last person to do it. When it was explained to me how it was going to happen, I thought, ‘Okay, I can kind of see it. She’s not planning on killing him, she’s stopping him from killing her best friend.'”

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“It’s a moment of despair, of madness, of chaos,” she added. “I’ve been on the show for 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 desperate to cover it up and this week they tried to pin it on Dean Wicks… but Linda’s risky plan could end up ruining everything.

EastEnders The show airs Monday to Thursday at 7:30pm on BBC One. The show is also available on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes are shown as early as 6am before their TV broadcast. The One Show airs at 7pm on BBC One on weekdays.

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