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Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams) is going through hell in EastEnders.
She’s navigating the fall out of her son Jordan’s (Izaiah Hagan-Brown) tragic accident, which saw Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) strike him with his car while being consumed with guilt, the crash coming after she’d snapped at him to leave her alone as she tried to pursue Zack Hudson (James Farrar).
As Chelsea dealt with the realisation that Jordan could be paralysed for life, she also that her mum, Denise (Diane Parish) had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a fast-growing and aggressive type of blood cancer.
The news of Denise’s illness did bring about the return of Chelsea’s little sister, Libby Fox (Belinda Owusu), and, after some initial friction between the estranged sisters, Chelsea found herself leaning on Libby.
As they caught up, Chelsea admitted to Libby that Jordan’s great-grandma and the grandma of his dad, crazed serial killer Gray Atkins’ (Toby-Alexander Smith), Sheila (Sheila Ruskin), had been attempting to financially support Jordan, sending and endless stream of cheques, none of which Chelsea had cashed.
With Chelsea desperate to help Jordan’s rehabilitation, meaning she’d need to access private physiotherapy sessions to provide him the best possible chance of regaining his ability to walk, Libby was instantly struck and took it upon herself to contact Sheila herself, requesting her help.
When Chelsea found out she was livid, though upon receiving the sage advice of Eve Panesar-Unwin’s (Heather Peace), she reconsidered her position and contacted Sheila herself, seeking a meeting between them.
In today’s episode, Chelsea was fraught with stress, despite Libby’s best attempts to calm her down, evidently uncomfortable with placing herself back in the orbit of anyone connected to Gray.
Nonetheless, the sisters head to Knight Fusion, with Chelsea practically vibrating with anxiety knowing Sheila was approaching and, as it stood, unwilling to allow her any contact with Jordan.
When she finally arrived, Chelsea’s edge remained, before she was unable to stop the words tumbling from her mouth: was Sheila still in contact with Gray?
Sheila confirmed that she couldn’t actually remember the last time she’d seen Gray in person, but her last image of her grandson was on a news report about his arrest and his multiple crimes.
Continuing on, she said she struggled to deal with the fact that her grandson was a stone cold serial killer who destroyed lives, and that this fact had brought her own career in law to a premature end.
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Chelsea enquired as to whether Sheila had been attempting to help Gray’s other kids, Mackenzie (Isaac Lemonius) and Mia (Mahalia Malcolm), who were living with their maternal grandmother, Karen Taylor (Lorraine Stanley), to which Sheila replied that Karen wasn’t interested in her help, and she didn’t blame her.
As Sheila began to get excited about the prospect of meeting Jordan, Chelsea began to recoil, and when she then wrote a cheque for £3,000, she withdrew further, politely declining the money while telling her that she wouldn’t be able to see Jordan. Sheila, wounded but accepting departed.
At the hospital, Chelsea learned from aunty Kim Fox (Tameka Empson) that Ian had hired an expensive and intimidating lawyer, while Chelsea struggled to deal with Jordan’s pleas to come home. Confronted with how much help Jordan might need, she called Sheila back.
Meeting up again later, Chelsea took the cheque, while giving Sheila a picture of Jordan to go in her purse alongside her picture of Mackenzie and Mia. As Chelsea left, though, Sheila slid the picture down next to a picture of Gray, staring lovingly at the image of her monstrous grandson.
Clearly, Sheila and Gray are a lot closer than she’d like anybody to realise, and with his upcoming return, is Sheila the conduit that brings the beast back to his old hunting ground?
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