EastEnders airs shock exit amid scary The Six choice in early BBC iPlayer release

One character abandoned the group in the episode airing on Tuesday 9th January 2024.

By Laura Denby

Published: Tuesday, 09 January 2024 at 06:30 AM

Warning: Contains spoilers for Tuesday 9th January’s episode of EastEnders, released at 6am on BBC iPlayer and airing at 7:30pm on BBC One.

EastEnders has aired some game-changing new developments for The Six, as one member of the group made a quick exit from Walford.

With Nish Panesar (Navin Chowdhry) now awake and on the mend after Denise Fox (Diane Parish) dealt him a blow to the head at Christmas, he was visited by his estranged wife Suki (Balvinder Sopal).

Needing to know how much Nish could recall from the night in question, Suki was relieved when he claimed not to remember everything.

Suki fed him the story that Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) had been the one to attack him, and Nish confirmed this to the police. But viewers know that Keanu was killed by Linda Carter (Kellie Bright), with his body currently hidden in the burned down café.

After a tense conversation about the way Nish had treated her, and about Suki’s affair, she knew all too well that Nish posed a bigger risk if he was left all alone.

So Suki convinced a reluctant Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) to go and see Nish, alongside half-brother Vinny Panesar (Shiv Jalota), and Ravi’s kids Davinder “Nugget” Gulati (Juhaim Rasul Choudhury) and Avani Nandra-Hart (Aaliyah James).

Vinny told his father how unhappy he, and the whole family, was over his vile behaviour at Christmas, and Nish ended up ordering Suki to move out of the family home – but agreed to give her a divorce.

Suki moved into the Slater house with partner Eve Unwin (Heather Peace), who remained oblivious to the reason why Suki was letting Nish get away with trying to kill Eve.