EastEnders' Patsy 'nervous' about live episode

EastEnders' Patsy 'nervous' about live episode
EastEnders' Patsy 'nervous' about live episode (Image credit: UK Press/Press Association Images)

EastEnders star Patsy Palmer has admitted she is feeling jittery about the show's first ever live episode on Friday. Palmer, who plays Bianca Jackson, admitted much of her anxiety was down to the fact that the cast only received their scripts a week ago. "I'm not excited, I'm just more nervous, really," she said. "I just think if you were doing a play you'd have a script. "I'm sort of both ways. I'm excited because it's just something so different to do and I'm nervous because it's such a big ask of everybody. "But they'll do it, they'll organise it and it will be fine," Palmer added It will be brilliant, I'm sure. Nobody will notice. The idea is it has to be the same as a normal episode and nobody will be able to tell it's live." The episode - which marks the soap's 25th anniversary - will also feature a scene in which Archie Mitchell's killer is finally unmasked. "I think it was the wind. I think the wind blew the bust off the bar," Palmer joked - while adding that she has no idea who the culprit is. "I try and get it out of people," she said. "I know someone who knows and I keep trying to call her bluff in case she has her defences down. But they're all well trained, these people that know. They give nothing away."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.