EastEnders star Shona McGarty shares hilarious mistake in Whitney scene

EastEnders star Shona McGarty has shared a clip of a hilarious mistake that took place during a scene aired this evening (May 13).

During the episode, McGarty’s character, Whitney Dean, returned to Sonia’s house in her wedding dress.

Bianca Jackson and her adopted daughter Britney immediately told Whitney to try it on for them – to which she agreed.

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Bianca and Britney were full of compliments for Whitney. But after discovering that the items Bianca and Britney had found for her upcoming wedding to Zack had been stolen, Whitney stormed off.

In the clip posted to McGarty’s Instagram account, the actor revealed that when she first filmed the scene, storming out of the kitchen, she took a cart of vegetables with her.

“So if you watched tonight’s episode of EastEnders, directed by Jamie Annet, THIS is what really happened! Look at the vegetable trolley. My laugh!” she writes in The Captain, while also tagging her co-star Patsy Palmer.

The clip shows the cart, which is in the corner of the kitchen near the door, getting stuck in the back of Whitney’s dress as she walks past. McGarty and Palmer then burst out laughing.

Co-stars including Heather Peace and Ellie Dadd commented on the post with laughing emojis, while fans also found the mistake hilarious, with many commenting that they would miss McGarty when she leaves the soap.

The star confirmed her decision to step away from EastEnders last year, telling Inside Soap: “I want to pursue things that are close to my heart, like singing – things that I’ve been doing since I was a kid and dream of .EastEnders has been amazing; I just want to do something else.”

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Her final scenes haven’t aired yet, but she’s already landed a new job. She will play Jenny in 2:22: A Ghost Story when it airs in Dublin, joining Once Upon a Time’s Colin O’Donoghue, Love Island’s Laura Whitmore and Strictly’s Jay McGuiness for a limited run.

The residency will take place at Dublin 3Olympia Theatre, from June 20 to August 11. Tickets are available for purchase from Ticketmaster.

EastEnders airs Monday to Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on BBC One. The show is also broadcast on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes are broadcast early at 6am before their television broadcast.

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