For now, though, the soap remains on top form with drama and scandal aplenty.<\/p>\n
And it seems as though things are about to get a whole lot more complicated for Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) this Halloween.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Inside Soap<\/a> about what\u2019s to come over the coming months, Eastenders boss Chris Clenshaw was asked if there were any horrors coming up in time for spooky season.<\/p>\n Clenshaw revealed: \u201cPoor Linda\u2019s struggling this Halloween as it\u2019s the first one without Mick; obviously she wasn\u2019t with Mick this time last year, but Halloween was very much their thing, and something they did together in the Vic.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, she\u2019s trying her best to make a go of things, but she gets one hell of a surprise that she doesn\u2019t bargain for\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not been an easy time as of late for Linda, who has had to deal with the presumed death of Mick (Danny Dyer) and has also welcomed the Knight family into the Vic, the pub she used to run alongside her own immediate family.<\/p>\n But lest we forget that Linda also finds herself in the exciting Christmas flash-forward<\/a> alongside Sharon Watts, Denise Fox, Suki Panesar and Kathy Beale \u2013 who were seen in the February episode standing over a corpse on Christmas Day in the Vic.<\/p>\n In terms of who it could be, well, that remains a mystery \u2013 with current fan theories whirring around the likes of Ravi Gulati<\/a>, Theo Hawthorne<\/a>, Rocky Cotton<\/a> and even a returning Dean Wicks<\/a>, Linda\u2019s rapist and brother-in-law.<\/p> Speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> exclusively about the upcoming mystery Christmas storyline, Bright said of the possibility of Dean Wicks returning: \u201cI\u2019d be totally up for him coming back as it creates drama and story.<\/p>\n \u201cLinda has processed the rape and managed to get on with her life pretty well, [though] it has come out in other ways like her alcoholism.<\/p>\n \u201cBut she\u2019s okay because Dean\u2019s not there. If he suddenly walked through the door, it would be very confronting. I wonder what that would do to her.\u201d<\/p>\n At the time of the interview in June, Bright did admit that things would only continue to get more exciting on the storyline front the closer we get to Christmas.<\/p>\n She revealed: \u201cIt has been quiet on the flash-forward front lately, but it will ramp up come September time going into the autumn. That\u2019s when you\u2019ll see all that stuff come to the fore again, then we\u2019ll have a big build-up to Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n So, could we be getting a blast from the past returning to shock Linda this Halloween? While there\u2019s been nothing confirmed as of writing, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see what\u2019s in store for the long-running character.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Kellie](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/EastEnders-Linda-Carter-16th-August-b8441ba.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"EastEnders")
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