**SPOILERS AHEAD!**
After ten months of speculation, EastEnders fans finally found out which character was murdered in an explosive Christmas Day special, as the climax of a major storyline known as "The Six" aired.
Teasing the festive episode, the British soap had aired a "flashforward" scene earlier in the year on 20 February, which offered viewers a glimpse at the 2023 Christmas Day storyline.
The clip showed a shocked-looking Sharon with blood on her wedding dress, taking the unknown man's pulse before exclaiming: "He’s dead."
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On Monday night's episode, Keanu Taylor was finally revealed as the victim.
During the Christmas Day episode, six of Walford’s matriarchs - Stacey Slater, Suki Kaur Panesar, Linda Carter, Sharon Watts, Denise Fox and Kathy Beale - found themselves embroiled in a series of events that led to the character’s demise.
Several men had been teased as the potential victim including Jack Branning, Tom "Rocky" Cotton, Dean Wicks, Nish Panesar, Ravi Gulati and Keanu Taylor.
Towards the end of the episode the women were drinking in the Queen Vic pub on Albert Square before they invited Nish along to talk things out with Suki.
Matters got physical when Nish tried to take Suki from the pub and Denise responded by hitting him over the head with a bottle.
This action was initially believed to have killed him, but after Suki performed CPR, she managed to get him breathing again and told the others he was alive, upon which she discovered Keanu on the floor.
He had been stabbed by Linda after he entered the pub and strangled Sharon, upon believing her to have killed Nish.
Things had also heated up between the two as earlier in the episode, Sharon had told him he was not biologically related to their son Albie.
She revealed the news after the couple’s wedding was disrupted when Phil Mitchell gatecrashed and told Sharon that her husband-to-be was the person behind the kidnapping of their young son.
The Christmas Day episode drew much commentary and reaction from the soap's fans on social media.
Source: Press Association
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