This year's EastEnders Christmas special looks set to honour the soap's long-standing tradition of everything going spectacularly wrong in Walford, as teased in the BBC's official trailer.
Zoe Slater is looking forward to her first family Christmas "in forever", but the reveal of her mystery stalker – who has been terrorising her since her return to the Square in June – threatens to plunge the day into chaos. That's according to Michelle Ryan, who dropped a telling hint during an official Q&A with co-star Jessie Wallace.
"This year, there is no Christmas meal for the Slaters," she teased, while discussing whether the cast actually eat the festive food during those scenes. "That just didn't happen."
The Slaters are due to host a community dinner at The Vic – but it sounds like the pigs in blankets will have to wait.
"Walford residents learn the consequences of their actions as they are visited by ghosts of their past, villains of the present, and visions of the future," reads the synopsis.
"Kat remains fiercely protective of Zoe, who remains determined to reunite with her long-lost son, but with a mystery tormentor hellbent on driving Zoe out of the Square, the search for answers unlocks shocking secrets that puts Kat’s motherly love to the test."
And that’s not the only drama on the way...
View oEmbed on the source websiteAnother imminent storyline guaranteed to shake things up is Max Branning's explosive meeting with Cindy Beale. The pair have never met, but Cindy knows Max was responsible for her son Steven Beale's death while she was in witness protection.
Max is also set to be the main focus of the format-breaking New Year's Day episode, which will jump a whole year into the future – to 2027 – with catastrophic consequences for him and his family. A preview image even shows Max in a suit with a blood-stained buttonhole.
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Either way, viewers will have to stick with it through 2026 to find out that strand plays out.
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