Max Branning (Jake Wood)

[Perdita]

BREAKING NEWS: Jake Wood who plays Max Branning will be back on our screens in the next few weeks, Jake has been back at filming since Mid September, but expect FIREWORKS & ANGER when Max does return

[parkerman]

I might even be tempted back.......

[Perdita]

EastEnders has finally given us some teasers on what we can expect from its iconic Christmas episodes - and top of the list is Max Branning's exciting return.

Many of the other soaps have been dropping hints about what's in store over the festive season for the last few months, but EastEnders has been keeping its cards very close to its chest. Until now...

While the residents of Albert Square will be desperately determined to have a peaceful Christmas this year, with secrets festering, families fractured and pressure building, it doesn't look like they will all get the day they asked Santa for.

With Phil's health rapidly deteriorating and time running out, the Mitchell family face the prospect that this Christmas could be his last.

Meanwhile, Lee struggles with the burden of all his secrets, but fans will be left wondering if he will finally confront the consequences of his actions, or if his guilty conscience will push him over the edge. And with Danny-Boy Hatchard's exit looming, it's not looking good.

But, quite possibly the most exciting treat in store for fans this Christmas is Max Branning's much-anticipated return.

Max has been away from Walford for the last 14 months to coincide with Jake Wood's year-long break from the soap. However, viewers have been left wondering when we would see him again after he was let out of prison back in May.

Ian and Max talk about Lucy's investigation
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And sure enough, the festivities at the Brannings' and the Beales' will explode like a cracker when Max makes a rather unexpected return.

Of course, Max has a grudge or two with the Beales, and his own daughters Lauren and Abi, for the roles they all played in his arrest. But where has he been? What has drawn him back to Walford? And is he resolved to serve revenge for dinner this Christmas?


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Think parkerman might just watch the Christmas episode of EastEnders

[Rear window]

Will he have compo for being wrongly convicted?

[Perdita]

Will he have compo for being wrongly convicted?

I hope he gets some legal advice how to get it ... although no amount of money can make up for the time you have lost spending with family and friends and losing your job and possibly home and maybe partner, but at least it might help to make a new start in life. Ín soapland that always seems quite easy though so I would not be surprised if the subject was not ever be raised...

[parkerman]

Compensation, yes. But if I was him what I would really want to know is why Jane and Ian were never arrested for their part in his wrongful imprisonment. Get a good solicitor, Max, and get them both banged up as well as that policewoman - whose name I've forgotten - who just let them go.

[kaz21]

Marsdon let them off.

[parkerman]

Marsdon let them off.

No, it wasn't Marsbar, it was the other one.

[lizann]

Compensation, yes. But if I was him what I would really want to know is why Jane and Ian were never arrested for their part in his wrongful imprisonment. Get a good solicitor, Max, and get them both banged up as well as that policewoman - whose name I've forgotten - who just let them go.

yes max should bring cases against beales, mitchells and police, hire malcolm christie and get marsbar to help she hates phil

[parkerman]

DI Keeble, that was her name.