EASTENDERS villain Sean Slater has a less than merry Christmas in store on his way to a spectacular exit, TV Biz can reveal.
Sean goes off the rails after discovering that he may NOT be the father of his wife Roxy’s newborn baby.
Sean (Rob Kazinsky) flees with the tot — leaving Roxy (Rita Simons) in anguish — and exits the BBC1 soap after plummeting into a frozen lake. But EastEnders chiefs are keeping the final outcome of his departure a secret.
A show insider said: “Will Sean live or die, and what will happen to Roxy’s baby? Viewers are going to be hooked — and we’re not going to disappoint.”
Sean and Roxy wed after a fiery romance and Sean pledged his love for the unborn baby.
But Roxy had slept with Jack Branning (Scott Maslen), then boyfriend of her sister Ronnie, at around the same time as Sean and it emerges that Sean may not be the premature baby’s dad.
Last night an EastEnders spokeswoman said: “We don’t comment on storylines.”
Another notorious baddie, Nick Cotton, wends his way back to Walford in December to torment his long-suffering ma, Dot.
The EastEnders Christmas special was the most watched show of 2007 with 13.9million viewers, as Bradley Branning (Charlie Clements) uncovered dad Max’s affair with his new wife Stacey.