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Ben Wadey and everything he’s doing to EastEnders. Clenshaw was far from perfect but all-in-all he was decent and a massive improvement on the abysmal 2011-13 and 2015-21. Wadey’s taking the show back to how it was in 2012, and that can never be a good thing. And everyone from the hardcore Digital Spy/Walford-Webbers to casual Facebook-fans seem to be in agreement with that. The Beeb must be aware of how bad the current perception of EE is right-now and how much standards have slipped since Clenshaw’s (the only consistently half-decent E.P. in 15 years) half of the year. Being the first person to lure Zoe/Michelle Ryan back after 20 years of her insisting she’d never return only for her to be chasing cats and … sending pictures to herself is just such a waste of what should’ve been taken as a golden opportunity.

The young boy doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. Experience manning Hollyoaks in your 20s doesn’t count. At-all.