{"id":42006,"date":"2023-12-15T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1945747"},"modified":"2023-12-15T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:39:39","slug":"eastenders-star-on-jack-and-stacey-passion-theres-genuinely-got-to-be-some-feelings-there","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/eastenders-star-on-jack-and-stacey-passion-theres-genuinely-got-to-be-some-feelings-there\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders star on Jack and Stacey passion: \u2018There\u2019s genuinely got to be some feelings there\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stacey has found her third Branning lover. <\/p>

By Lewis Knight\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 15 December 2023 at 14:43 PM<\/p>

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Scott Maslen has spoken for the first time about a shocking new passion for his character Jack in EastEnders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) has not had the easiest year, having dealt with daughter Amy Mitchell (Ellie Dadd) facing mental health issues<\/a>, teenage son Ricky Branning (Frankie Day) becoming a father<\/a>, and his wife Denise Fox (Diane Parish) had been unfaithful with criminal Ravi Gulati<\/a> (Aaron Thiara).<\/p>\n

Amidst this, Jack has been a support to and found support in Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner), with whom he shares a newborn grandchild.<\/p>\n

On Thursday (14th December 2023), Jack and Stacey finally gave in to their bubbling chemistry<\/a> \u2013 but what now for Jack?<\/p>\n

In a new interview shared with RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press, actor Scott Maslen talks about Jack\u2019s latest messy romance.<\/p>\n

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Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) and Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) have grown passionately close.<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC\/Jack Barnes\/Kieron McCarron<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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This week, viewers saw Jack and Stacey get together. Do you think this is a moment of madness for Jack or do you think there genuinely might be some feelings there between him and Stacey?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s genuinely got to be some feelings there because you don\u2019t do things like that without their being feelings. All roads point towards this as well, so there\u2019s been a lot of tension, a lot of stress, a lot of contributing factors that have led to this point and miscommunications. Reading between the lines and thinking something is something when it isn\u2019t, and it gets to the point where the you-know-what hits the fan. [Laughs]<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it expected? Is it something that was going to happen in Jack\u2019s eyes? Definitely not, but that\u2019s EastEnders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack and Denise\u2019s marriage has been on the rocks since Denise\u2019s tryst with Ravi, and now Jack has slept with Stacey. Has Jack ever genuinely forgiven Denise for her actions, or do you think this act is a retaliation for Ravi?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, there\u2019s no retaliation with Jack. I think for him it\u2019s about wounding. Denise didn\u2019t sleep with him, but Jack\u2019s the sort of person where a kiss is just as bad, maybe worse. So, I think he has had that in his mind constantly, and he hasn\u2019t dealt with the Ravi thing properly yet, and that\u2019s just one of the elements that goes towards why he sleeps with Stacey. It is a big one, but as people will find out, it gets complicated and muddied. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s forgiven Denise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Is there any way back from this for Jack and wife Denise Fox (Diane Parish)?<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC\/Jack Barnes\/Kieron McCarron<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Do you think that Jack and Denise\u2019s marriage is beyond repair at this point?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s in a desperate place. I don\u2019t think you\u2019re thinking about saving a marriage when it\u2019s falling apart. You realise it\u2019s falling apart so you\u2019re more focused on that, and it seems to be the dominant factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Denise was showing signs that she wanted it to work, then maybe he\u2019d see those signs and he\u2019d react accordingly but he\u2019s seeing it constantly deteriorate, so there\u2019s only so much he can do. You can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make it drink so I think he thinks that\u2019s what is happening in his relationship, and it\u2019s literally at its end.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he is holding on, because he does love the family, he loves the kids, and it\u2019s a structure which is safe, and he is all about that because his life has been thrown all over the place before. He\u2019s in a very unstable place right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

What has it been like working up to the Christmas storyline since February?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been epic. I\u2019ve been here sixteen years, and I don\u2019t remember being as busy, as in it\u2019s a really busy story. Christmas is the perfect time to do big, sensational stories and this is definitely that. It goes everywhere and people aren\u2019t going to be able to work it out. Most of the actors can\u2019t work it out. It\u2019s very exciting times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Will Jack Branning come to regret his lustful actions?<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC\/Jack Barnes\/Kieron McCarron<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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In light of Jack\u2019s infidelity, do you think he could be wearing the dreaded cufflinks at Christmas?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cHe could well be. All the journeys of everyone involved in this story go all different ways. That\u2019s what\u2019s exciting. What you expect characters to be, they break their character traits. There\u2019s things going on where you go \u2018hang on a minute what\u2019s going on here?\u2019 and \u2018why are they behaving like that?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to see a lot of characters that you think you know and recognise do things that you don\u2019t. The complexities of the storyline brings out traits in the characters that aren\u2019t common to the audience. They\u2019re going to see people going to new places.\u201d<\/p>\n

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