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EastEnders spoilers: Boss John Yorke confirms Christmas death but are Max, Abi and Lauren in danger?

EastEnders boss reveals a Christmas death and more story gossip
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EastEnders boss John Yorke has warned that not everyone will survive Christmas this year, revealing that his formula for the special episodes involve a death. But could a member of the Branning clan be set to meet their maker? Or might he be referring to a fatality for evil James Willmott-Brown?

The Christmas Day episode will centre around a downfall for Max Branning, with daughters Lauren and Abi as well as the likes of Stacey Fowler, Ian Beale and Phil Mitchell drawn into the catastrophic events. But will Max’s actions be the catalyst for tragedy and might he be the one to pay the ultimate price? Or might departing actresses Jacqueline Jossa or Lorna Fitzgerald be in the firing line?

Elsewhere, a gun is involved in the ongoing plan of Aidan Maguire and we know that the big job could go spectacularly one – could the group of men who are gunning for trouble be staring death in the face? or could it be James Willmott-Brown who is in for a sticky end as the villain collapses when his plotting comes undone?

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Speaking at a recent press event, John said: ‘When I arrived at end of June, we had two weeks to work out which stories were going to be in our Christmas stocking this year so I took a long hard look at what was on the table. There were a lot of existing stories that lent themselves to significant endings, but one story in particular was crying out for the epic EastEnders treatment.

‘In context, I was head of department of continuing drama 12 years ago when the Brannings came in so the temptation to bring that story to a full shattering Greek tragedy ending was hard to resist. When the creator of the Brannings Simon Ashdown dropped everything to come back, we worked out this year would have to be about Max facing the consequences of all of his dastardly actions. Ten years after the epic Max and Stacey affair, one of the all time great EE Christmases, things have come full circle and we’re finally going to end that story once and for all.

Max, Lauren and Abi destroyed in EastEnders Christmas
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‘The tag line I invented was the somewhat cheesy mantra – someone old, someone new, someone’s dead and someone’s blue – marketing raised their eyebrows to that one! There are shocking twists for Christmas Day and more coming too.’

Adding what else he has in the pipeline, John teased: ‘There’s a baby, a shooting, a new mate for Mick and a love interest for Whitney, a grave robbery, a heist and a final comeuppance for Willmott-Brown – these are all the ingredients for a classic EastEnders Christmas and New Year.’

John initially took on the role for three months to offer a transition period for the soap but has now signed up to stay for at least a year.

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