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I feel like sadly it was about to the right time for Mya to go, she’s done decently but based on the lipsyncs I think her and Van were the weakest and it was based I this episode he time to go. Velma I think still did really well in her first lipsync, given she didn’t get to choose and had probably the song that suits her the least, she still attacked it and put her stamp on it instead of giving up or phoning it in. This is a really strong cast bc put Velma or Mya on season 3, 4 or 5 and they could win the even thing! I still do think Karamilk and PM should not have gone further in this show than them but for this episode, it was about right if not Van but she was not going anywhere. Velma and Mya did really well this season due to the comedy challenges we’ve had but the better performers in Karamilk and PM were never going to leave before them in a lipsync slay off. PM murdered that bottom 3 lipsync, when it really comes down to survival she absolutely kills a lipsync and I have to give her flowers for that. It was like a time lapse scene from a movie, stunning. Eboni is 10000% my winner, she is such a magnetic performer and ate all 3 lipsyncs, plus she is funny, charismatic, the best all round queen.

Very true, I don’t really pay as much attention to charts now since it is just TikTok stuff or the same songs that last for years

Great song but why is it being rinsed in nigh on 2026 when she has released album of the year with so many ready smashes on😭

Michelle Ryan said she found out 10 days before filming the reveal that Jasmine was Zoe’s daughter, I do think they’ve made it up as they go along and Jasmine was possibly meant to be a Ford but they dropped it for whatever reason. Maybe they couldn’t get the right casting for the supposedly only surviving twin and just thought Jasmine will do

Yeah, episode 4 i think which would make sense for a non elim following

A fake out bottom 2 is psychological warfare lol Also episode 2 is girl groups, it seems like the talent show is episode 5 but also is still split?! Idk that’s odd for mid season but with the Briar Blush medevac I suppose a non elim makes sense to make the numbers work again or something

That Christening was high camp, I knew bringing Max back would be worth it if nothing else. The Slaters and Jasmine also work really well, funnily enough without Zoe is the first time they’ve worked for months

I’ll almost forgive Ben Wadey for everything he’s done if New Year’s Day has a Tanya return, but I just can’t see it happening even temporarily. Of course Abi should be back for this Branning revival in a just world :(

Even Cynthia dragging her is wild to me 💀

God how awful :( She was a camp presence in this season for better or for worse lol, one I’ll remember for sure.

I just can’t fathom any of this I mean Zoe just finding out about Jasmine and it being all fine would be boring but at least I could see why Michelle might find that to be a good script or would enjoy the storyline, and it moves her plot along at least. She must have been held at gunpoint to say anything positive about these episodes.

Not a single redeeming factor, that was just beyond laughable. Again as I said it really does feel like fanfiction, terribly written pointless plots that go nowhere. They made a plot device out of everyone involved, Sam feels like a spare part despite the fact she be shining with an importent issue based storyline right now. Antony got brought back just to assassinate a character nobody cared for anyway, and when he could have been a bit of a camp villain they just killed him off. Zoe is still going round in circles, Jasmine is still brooding around. Nothing is resolved or has gone anywhere. Utterly woeful and a total nadir, I didn’t think this show could get worse. Chrissie coming back and killing someone else would have been convoluted and OTT but at least something would have happened. What was the point of any of that?! Pure nostalgia slop fanfic with absolutely zero payoff. Although I suppose Zoe going to prison and ending her reign of terror would be a payoff.

If nothing else that was comedy gold I’m screaming 😭 the “fight” was like something off Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

There is no reason to it, to me this just feels like a 10 year old writing convoluted fanfiction to bring back Chrissy and Zoe in 2006 Why would Chrissie, finally out of prison with the man she waited 20 years for, spend her freedom chasing around after Zoe Slater who didn’t really do anything to her anyway?! I just can’t ne excited about noted Zionist transphobe TAO on my screen, that heinous woman should not have any airtime, idc about the character. I think Chrissy’s story ended fine with the Sharon saga last time she came back and left with Jake. I genuinely think jasmine is gonna get like stabbed or shot and die instead of Zoe tomorrow

LMFAOOOOO actually laughed out loud, this is comical. Is that really what they think is worth a Christmas episode? And if it is why not leave it until the actual day. To go from yesterday”s Nigel episode to this convoluted 00s fanfic mess is a joke.

I think it’s Feb as BBC3 is repeating the first 2 series through January (simultaneously not one after the other) so presumably when that’s finished this one will be on. I’ve kind of got a good feeling about it but I try not to take a vs The World too seriously when it usually ends up a mess lol

That was actually done beautifully, I’m glad they let the actors and the actual story do the talking. This storyline is one of the only things the new era is doing right at the moment I just didn’t trust Ben Wadey not to make it cheesy and gimmicky

With such great actors in the storyline they should really let the issue speak for itself instead of having this gimmicky flashback, i can’t say I am hugely taken by the idea of this episode as great as it is to see her back. Killing her off is still possibly the biggest mistake anyone on EE ever made.

Initially they did explain it as Bert being ill as I remember Lauren saying. I don’t see why the character can’t just be in Walford but not on screen for things if they’re going to recast, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did as it’s not like he’s a huge character they simply couldn’t recast but then he was really a spent character who they never really used anyway so there’s no point to even bringing him back. It’s an odd one because Jay wouldn’t just leave Lexi especially with Ben in prison but they’ve backed themselves into a corner by having a character who’s simultaneously pointless and underused yet embedded into the square the way he is. Really Lexi and/or Callum should just go with him at this point.

The untucked for episode 6 somehow leaked (it’s not even a separate show lol how) and the Lalaparuza seems to go: WIN Eboni TOP Saltina HIGH Sami, Karamilk BEAVER Van BTM PM ELIM Mya, Velma

GAWDLAND WINS SNATCH GAME SOSSSSSS FHJSSKS As Cardi B lol, the first good Cardi B omg

What on gods green earth is left for Christmas now they’ve even had Max find out about Annie? Because I promise NOBODY gives two f***s about Zoe and Jasmine 💀 I reckon the other twin shows up and one of them dies and the surviving one and Zoe reconcile because of it, I’m expecting it to be that horrifically melodramatic

Mini Mo is the stalker, a Ford, Anna Knight, and both of Zoe’s twins 💜

Jessie Wallace looked like she’d never heard such bullshit I know we all keep saying it but I really cannot fathom any kind of pay off that makes any of this worth it. There’s no direction they can go that even remotely saves this. Antony today has me SCREAMING he’s so bad “she’s not worth the match they LIT”

The son will 100% turn up at Christmas I’m sure of it, is that the big pay off that has been promised? Because not a soul cares I’m sure