EastEnders launches investigation as Christmas script is 'stolen'

And they're trying to sell it for big money
Kerry Barrett
By Kerry Barrett

Real-life drama has hit EastEnders after a temporary worker apparently stole a script from the exciting Christmas episodes and tried to sell it to a journalist.

The BBC has launched an investigation after the cheeky temp tried to flog the script to the MailOnline.

And he said he wanted a four-figure sum to ruin the Christmas episodes for fans.

The temp told the MailOnline that he worked at the BBC Elstree studios where Enders is filmed, and that he’d found the script lying on the kerb outside.

“It was as if someone had been sitting there reading it, and had left it, or as if it had been dropped out of someone’s bag,” he said.

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“I was working there and I didn’t steal it. It was just there on the kerb.”

EastEnders Christmas episodes are the most eagerly anticipated all year and this festive season is set to be a corker with Abi and Lauren Branning bowing out of the show.

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The sneaky temp said the script he found reveals what happens to Abi and Lauren and told the publication that “it’s a really dramatic ending”.

Back in September it was announced that the Branning sisters will be leaving the show in “explosive” episodes as part of a shake-up by new producer John Yorke.

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With dad Max getting involved in all sorts of evil plots round Albert Square, and the sisters at loggerheads over Abi’s affair with Lauren’s fiance Steven, there are many different ways this story could end.

But while we’re all desperate to know how Abi and Lauren will say goodbye to Walford for good, it’s always exciting to be surprised by the Christmas episodes, so we’re glad the scheme to spill the beans fell flat.

A spokesperson for the BBC said they were investigating the matter.