EASTENDERS will screen its most gruesome death yet when Kevin Wicks gets killed in a car smash on New Year’s Eve.
So yet again, the soap’s writers are bringing us sack loads of doom and gloom during the festive season.
Last year Pauline Fowler died on Christmas Day.
Kevin, played by Phil Daniels, will be driving one of Phil Mitchell’s bent motors.
The car will career through Albert Square when a fault causes a crash.
In the accident, the car is flipped into the air and lands on its roof, impaling Kevin through the chest with a piece of wreckage.
And just to make sure Kev really is finished off, the death-trap vehicle then explodes in a ball of flames.
Kevin is caught up in Phil’s shady deals while trying to raise the cash to take son Deano on a round-the-world trip when he comes out of jail.
Phil (Steve McFadden) has blackmailed him by threatening to stop him renting the car lot unless he takes part in the dodgy car scam.
We told last August how actor Phil, 49, was quitting.
His decision prompted EastEnders chiefs to also axe Kevin’s kids, played by Kellie Shirley and Matt Di Angelo.
Kevin’s missus Denise is also set to vanish from screens because the actress who plays her, Diane Parish, is pregnant.
A source said: “Kevin’s death will be the horrid highlight of New Year’s Eve.”
... Well, isn't that all happy and delightful!
