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EastEnders star says no more TV babies

Wadia - 'Every line begins 'I've just put him down upstairs''
Wadia - 'Every line begins 'I've just put him down upstairs''

'EastEnders' star Nina Wadia has joked that she will leave the BBC show if the soap's bosses make her character, Zainab Masood, pregnant again.

Zainab has just given birth to a baby boy.

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The actress told the Radio Times: "Every line begins 'I've just put him down upstairs' - if they make me pregnant again, I'll be leaving instantly."

Wadia added: "When they told me of Zainab's pregnancy, I thought it was a joke - a cruel joke. When you have to act with real life babies and toddlers, everything takes so much longer, and I spend enough time at work as it is."

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