BBC EastEnders’ Shabnam Masood confronts Dean over daughter Jade amid ‘return twist’

EastEnders’ Shabnam Masood made contact during Monday’s episode, as she spoke with Dean Wicks on the phone about their daughter Jade amid fans predicting a return for the character

EastEnders’ Dean Wicks faced being exposed on Monday night, amid his cruel plan for daughter Jade.

Dean was recently devastated to find out that Jade was moving to Pakistan with her mother Shabnam Masood, just after he had started to get to know her again. The soap villain took cruel action against Jade, who remains unaware that he has been tampering with her medication.

Jade received a lung transplant just weeks ago due to her cystic fibrosis which was leaving her gravely ill, and since then she has been on antibiotics to help her recover. But Dean has been tampering with this medication to stop her from healing, so that she has to stay in Walford with him.

Amid Jade claiming she will soon move away, fans have been speculating Shabnam will be forced to head to Walford to help her daughter and stop Dean. No one knows yet what Dean is doing to Jade, with him not even considering how ill he is making his own child.

Teenager Jade is struggling with illness due to her dad’s actions, but she has no idea of his plan or why he is doing it. In the latest episode which aired on Monday night, fans saw the character still discussing her move to Pakistan with Shabnam, as if it was happening soon.

Dean looked angry about the admission, while he also stopped Jade from talking to her mum when she called him that day. Shabnam made contact amid Jade’s health decline, asking to speak with her daughter and wanting to know if the move was still on the agenda.

She seemed worried that Jade may have changed her mind and that this was the hold-up having not seen her daughter since she became poorly again, not long after Jade deciding to stay in Walford with Dean for a bit. As Shabnam called Dean, he told her Jade was “still sick” and sleeping.

He then advised they hold off booking Jade’s flights until she was better, smirking as he said this knowing full well he was stopping her from healing. He also lied he was “looking after” their daughter and that Shabnam had nothing to worry about.

But with fans convinced Shabnam will soon return, might she grow concerned and head to Walford to find out what is happening with Jade? Viewers believed so, taking to social media with one comment reading: “Oh looks like Shabnam is coming back,” as another said: “I can see that Jade’s Mom and her grandma’s will be coming back on the square now to be with her.”