FUMING EastEnders fans have threatened to switch off as backlash grows over a controversial pregnancy twist.
Viewers flooded social media with complaints, branding the latest instalment the “worst episode ever”.
Suki’s (Balvinder Sopal) twisted plan to manipulate Avani (Aaliyah James) into having a baby – just so she can raise it herself – has received a huge public backlash.
The shocking scenes left fans fuming, with many slamming the plot as “abysmal” and asking, “What the hell did I just watch?”
In the episode, Eve (Heather Peace) was left gobsmacked after discovering Suki’s shocking plan to adopt Avani’s baby.
Furious, she lashed out, accusing her of manipulating the teen and calling her some pretty harsh words.
But in a bizarre U-turn later that same night, after Avani had a heart-to-heart with Eve, she somehow managed to talk her round — with the pair now considering raising the baby together as their own.
Viewers are slamming the storyline as “unrealistic” and “garbage”, with some even vowing to ditch the soap for good.
Taking to an online forum, one fan wrote: “Avani seems to have had a personality transplant. Does she not remember her step-grandmother has already raised 4 children? This is not her chance.”
Another said: “The Suki storyline being positioned as some sort of heart-warming tale of motherhood and not the coercion and abuse story that it actually is so inappropriate.”
To make matters worse, the same episode saw Patrick (Rudolph Walker) suddenly spiral into a gambling problem, despite two decades of betting without a hitch.
Viewers were left scratching their heads and branding the writing “tedious” and “a challenge to watch.”
One said: “I hate how Patrick has gambled for 20+ years and now all of a sudden it’s a problem.”
Another added: “Patrick has gambled since the first day Yolande met him. Now it is a contrived part of the plot for her to call off the wedding.
“None of the stories make sense and it is a challenge to watch.”
