A Night on Eastenders That Changed Everything

We use Eastenders hot topics to chat about our real worlds and have a good gossip!

Each week Abi and Ava use Eastenders storylines to talk about whats going on in their own and the wider world. 

This week they’re asking; Have you had a night that’s changed everything?

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Transcript

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Hi, I'm Ava. And I'm Abby. And you're listening to Ender's Afters.

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Where we use East Enders hot topics to talk about our real worlds.

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And have a good gossip. Welcome to the afters.

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Welcome to the afters. So, Ava, what is your storyline?

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Have you ever had a night that's changed everything? No, but East Enders bloody well has. Oh my god, it's kicking off again. No!

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This week!

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I'm loving it again.

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Loving it. And I I can see what that why the build-up has been coming.

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It's unraveling, it's unraveling.

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I almost feel it's completely unraveled already. Like we know everything.

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I know it's halfway through the year.

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Yeah, so I hope that there is some twists and turns along the way.

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There's always some twists and turns.

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But also, Eastern Enders does like to give away the plot early. It's East Enders.

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Yeah, because otherwise.

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What does it watch? Almost almost a bit too intelligent if they don't.

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But there's some storylines that you've noticed.

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Yeah, I knew Priya was a mistress.

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I was talking all sorts of.

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And when her and Linda left, him and Linda left from the thing, you were like, this is it, Linda.

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I can't believe Linda and Max because Max is the one that broke up her and Mick.

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I know. That's why she'll always have a thing for him. I think she I don't think it's that she even wants Max that March. She wants to be wanted by Max. Yeah. Like everyone. Them them men do create that in you, them types of men. It's not just that you want them, you want to be, you want their validation.

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Like Miss Priya.

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Mistress Priya. Mistress Priya. I love that scene. I know. I love that scene. I loved when she spoke about Ravi, and she was like, and you know, went through the whole like, oh, he just, oh, I'm not good enough for you. And he gave her that spill, I can't be the man you want to be, which is Tech's book. Yeah, you're better off without me. You're better off without me, which is just a cop out because it's not even when men do that, that's not uh you're better off without me. That's I think so low of myself, I'm not gonna try and be a good enough man to do so. I'm just gonna take the easy route and cop out.

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I know they've got kids for real, and you're coping out.

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That I think that that reaction is a bit of an epidemic with men at the moment, like that they can't deal because we have as a society in more recent years, especially, have not taught men how to deal with emotions. So as soon as something heavy arises, it's not you, it's me. Yeah, it's not you, it's me.

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It's not you. I'm not good enough.

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And they might actually think that, but like you don't get to decide who's good enough for me after everything I've done for you. And when she was like, I wanna skin him, I wanna like I wanna eat his heart, she said. Yeah, I wanna pull his heart out and eat it. I thought, I hear your sister. And then she said, Max, get on your knees. Get on your own foot. Yeah, get on your knees. Why, what are you gonna do there, Priya, when he's on his knees? That was naughty. I know. Ree said, what if their next episode was her with her limbs at Kimbo and him on his knees?

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Imagine legs in the air.

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Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Priya.

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Oh my god.

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Funny. It's kicking off. It's kicking off. But yeah, we started the beginning of the weekend with the wedding, didn't we?

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I love the wedding, it was such a feel-kid vibe, wasn't it?

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They done it really well, they done it how weddings are. Like the vibe was how weddings are.

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Everyone was there and everyone's got each got their own thing going on, which is so kind of.

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Yeah, so wedding it. And how Chelsea just wanted to have a good time. I know, and she just she'll never live with herself.

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She hates everyone's like, love my kids, but I hate my kids.

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Literally. Do you know what I felt bad for? You know, when they went to the hospital and they kind of went in on Josh for not looking after him, I thought, I know so. They didn't even be like, oh no, it's not you, Josh, but yeah, maybe go go.

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Like, they were like, they were like, it's your fault. They were like, Yeah, she screamed at her son and then blamed Josh.

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Yeah, she was like, Yeah, it's you, bye. You can take on the burden for my child being in hospital.

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I know, and bloody drunk Kathy causing Ian to back into Jordan.

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Oh my god, yeah, it's not a lot of things. I love that, isn't it?

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I love that. I'm loving each little nook of the I wonder how Kathy's gonna.

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Do you know what? You're so right. I hadn't even considered the fact that like Kathy's gonna realise that it's her, maybe if they watch the CC TV.

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It wasn't her, it was Ian.

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No, but it was her that caused it. Ian wouldn't have done that if Cathy wasn't pulling.

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She was trying to get on the bike, that was so funny. Literally, she's such a good drunk. I know, she's so good. Her and Linda and Phil.

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Usually, when someone plays that drunk, like when they're a bit tipsy, fine, but she played paralytic, and normally when they play paralytic, it's so hamming.

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You don't do that when you're drunk, you actually just sway.

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No, yeah, yeah, it doesn't. And the slurring was like the perfect amount of slurring. Oh, she's so good. So what just happened? So and Denise. Oh, my heart aches.

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I know, and she said I feel disgusting. Oh, I can't bear it.

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This is what EastEnders does so well is they really like find out how these scenarios affect people, like what burdens they might take on the obvious unless you've been through it. Yeah, and they portray it. I know. EastEnders smashing it again! Smash it, Rooney! I know. I'm glad she told Jack at the end though.

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So glad. So Denise's got a big storyline coming up.

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Is she gonna die? That's a big question.

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Because that duff duf with the man getting the ambulance, she's like that's my favorite.

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I know I nearly started crying at that point.

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You did.

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It was intense.

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I was in tears all week. I can't remember what else it was about. Was she on my period though, but I was bawling my eyes out.

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Was she? As if Max proposing at the wedding as well.

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In his speech, I was cracking up.

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He had it down to a T, that speech.

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That speech was hilarious. Him proposing to Cindy, and now he's stuck because she says I do, and I was gonna have to get married to her. And he's shagging Priya.

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I know.

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It's kicking off!

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Have you ever been to a wedding where they someone steals the funder or that?

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No, I haven't been to many weddings to be fair.

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Maybe not. No, but it's so bad when people do that. I even think sometimes this, you know, if the speech, you can mug it off with the speech a little bit if you do what I mean. You go instead of making it about you.

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People love to steal the show.

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Oh, they love it.

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They love it. Everyone wants a little moment, don't they?

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At one of my friends' wedding once, my other friend stripped pretty much naked, and she like ran around, but it wasn't still in the show at all. It was like at the end of the night, so it was hilarious. But I suppose to an outside eye, someone might have thought that, but she was giving Victoria Beckham. She was a bridesmaid, yeah! Oh my god, it's really giving Victoria Beckham. Have you ever seen someone get arrested at the end of the wedding? Like Ian Bill.

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I know. Ian in the cell, the mayor of Woolford in the cell.

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I felt so bad for him, and I never feel bad for Ian Bill.

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I don't know, because he's he's he's got he's got nice colours at the moment, isn't he? So colours.

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No, but it's not even that. Although he is softening a bit now, he's chatting to Elaine. It's more like, it's just like when he his face, when he realised he killed George, I haven't felt that bad for him since he was crying on the couch to feel saying, I've got nothing left.

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I've got nothing left. I haven't been that sad since he was homeless.

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I know. I have I've forgotten the homeless bit.

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Oh, I was iconic.

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Yeah. I think I've only seen memes. I think it's in the bit where I haven't caught up with yet.

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Yeah, I can't remember the storyline by he was homeless behind a tree.

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But also, like Ian Bill is so rich.

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I know now. Ian's eel.

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But he was rich back in the day. What made him homeless?

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I can't remember, we've got to we've got to talk about that one.

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Yeah, I'll have to um I'll have to recap. Honestly, this week's actually been a maddus as well. Like, I feel like there's an on less stream of how many things has happened because you've got to think there's Gina. Um, Gina and George. Yeah, and I love that George killed him basically.

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He drank that water and he said, It's my last uh what's the saying?

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I can't remember what he said.

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I'm lost. No, like he won basically.

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Yeah, he had the last laugh.

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He had the last laugh, that's the thing. He had the last laugh. Catching on racism, it's I know it's good. And they brought Eddie back. He's horrible, but he's a great actor.

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I know, I like that he's come back and they haven't dragged it out too much. They've just come back for the purpose of like opening up this storyline, which is a really important one, especially with like do you know what's the mostly important is like interracial relationships at that younger age as well. And like, you know, Harry might be a great ally and may might want to support Gina, but he'll never get it.

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Yeah, like we'll never get it, and her educating him on it was yeah, for sure.

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Yeah, exactly. That's what I mean, and that's why, like, you can't go into a relationship with anyone of like an oppressed group, whether that be class, race, and not unhave a good understanding. But I think race is a really important one because it's not something it's something that's worn. Like, you don't necessarily know someone's class, but you know someone's race, and like what non-white people have to go through in our society is something that we will never understand. Yeah, so it is really important that if there's an interracial relationship, these conversations are had, yeah, and it was a good, healthy one, yeah. And he loves her, it was approached in such a good way.

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I know, and she was talking about growing up in Spain and how like growing up with Eddie in the comments, and then because you internalise things as a child, and it can can be really and her talking about um her sister being lighter skinned as well.

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One of my best friends who you know or well you know of, she's um really light skinned as well, she's mixed-raised half Jamaican half Jamaican, and um her sister is a lot more like isn't as light-skinned as her, so she would get treated as black by society, but my best friend wouldn't. Like you she's you can see she's ambiguous, but she looks white, and they had conversations a few years ago about how like she'd and she didn't even know because that wasn't her experience until she had that and oh that's so good.

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Because Zina was like, You you didn't go through what I went through.

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Such a nuanced one as well, isn't it? Yeah, and it's but that's a really important conversation to have, and real ones that RBN had. Yeah, so Easter! We love it! They never fail to bring in no important storylines.

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And George killed Eddie, so but Eddie told George about the money. Yeah, um, Nicola stealing the money, taking the money so he could live there. So, what's George gonna do next? I'm curious.

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I know, I like the way he just kind of dropped it on Amazon.

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He's so pissed, he doesn't even want to shout at her. He's like, keep your fucking money.

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Yeah, which is so funny because we spoke about it last week, didn't we?

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And it's like where the money comes from.

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When you get to that, don't give me your dirty money. Like, I think when you get to a point where someone for most people anyway, where someone has treated you so badly, money is nothing, babes. Yeah, I don't want your money. I'll continue to live my life the way it's living. Like, I don't no amount of money is gonna make anything okay. And also, I agree with George, like, even if it's not even to make it okay, it's more just like he would know that he's had that last I don't want anything of you, I want all your like you said, money is energy. Yeah, I want all that energy away from me.

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And who's Eddie thinking is? He can just Yeah, it's disgusting.

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He done that to make himself feel better before he died as well.

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Yeah, and he just wormed his way in, causing all that friction again in the family like he has done his whole life.

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I know. We're not here for it.

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We're not here for it. So I'm glad Eddie's dead, even though it was a good little stint.

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Yeah. I'm here for it too.

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So what's gonna happen next week?

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I know. How are we gonna come down from this? I know, because it's I hope it stays exciting for a bit, because you know sometimes after some like big events happen, it has a low like January was a bit quiet and stuff like that. Uh give us a few more weeks of the chaos.

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Yeah, give us that camera angle, it was all of the nice. No.

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It was a camera angle at the end with Denise. I can't cope for that. Do you know what else was a moment? And this is full circle for us because our first episode ever of the pod, we spoke about this. It's shrimp! Shrimp!

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On the guitar. I know. He was having a full moment with that guitar.

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I hope they paid him extra for that day because he weren't just an actor. No, he was a full-time actor.

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He weren't no extra. Ed Sheeran, you got one for you got a man in a trilby on your back. He's been talking low shrimpy recently.

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I know, you can't shut him up.

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I know, we love shrimpy.

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Innit, I want Winston to have a bit more of a word.

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Winston, there's one other extra. Because Tracy's been talking as well. Yeah, but Tracy's more than an extra. Tracy Murray.

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Actually, them four are all equal. But Tracy is the creme de la creme. She's the leader of the clan. Mm-hmm. For sure.

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Zach fucking kicked off, didn't he?

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Yeah, I know. He's suddenly turned into this like really bitter, icky kind of guy.

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Do you know what? When his son, what's his name?

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His son.

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Oh, Barney. He touched a nerve when he was like, you don't know how why'd you keep cheating on your people you love? Because Whitney came back.

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I know. Moment for Whitney. That was last week, but yeah.

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She's got Reuben.

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I know. She looked gorgeous as well. We said this, didn't we? She looks stunning.

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She is a sunny one. But she was like, I've moved on. So Zach's having a real little crisis because he was a cheater.

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And to be honest, them situations do bring out this breakdown side of you. Not saying I've ever thrown anything to ever laugh. Um, like no, but you know, when like it kind of gets rehashed after this time and you felt fought everything's settled, like it can bring up old Finns and make you a bit crazy.

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Yeah, he was toying with old um what's his name?

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Vicky.

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Vicki is Ross. Yeah.

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What the F.

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I know, right on the wedding day.

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I know, and it stayed at the wedding. I'm sorry, but who does that? Like, you find out your mate's sleeping with your missus and you let him stay at the wedding. Only in East Enders.

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I love the wedding. So much went on.

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I know, literally. And the flash dance.

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And the flash dance and the prawn bellinis.

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And no, the prawn bellini's not the prawn bellini. What is a bellini?

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I think it's a little like um pastry thing.

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With a prawn in it.

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With a prawn in it. I think it's pastry. Some sort of thing. It's like I think it's like 80s vibe.

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Yeah. Um, yeah, okay, so I suppose that's the week covered. What's your final date?

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Prawn bellinis, make sure they're in date. Fix to that. Make sure they're not Aldi's. Yeah. Gone off finest.

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Oh, well, like, subscribe, comment down below. What are we?

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See you next week. Yeah, did you guys enjoy it? Are you excited for week? Unravel.

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Did you predict it? That's the question. Did you predict it?

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Comment down below if you did. Love ya.