Asked if he roots for the on-screen couple, who are currently dealing with the fallout of Ravi’s spiking, the actor replied: “I root for the possibilities for them that everyone can see.

“This could be such a loving and strong family unit, but I do wonder how Priya manages to stick by this geezer [laughs]. It’s just one thing after another with Ravi! But it’s really enjoyable to play the constant light and shade and paint that hope for the audience. It’s like the sunset is just on the horizon, and if they can just get through this, or the next thing, then it’ll be fine.”

 

 

In their latest storyline, Ravi and Priya are left devastated after realising that it was Ravi who, while experiencing hallucinations of his late father Nish, attacked their son, Nugget, leaving him hospitalised and in a coma.

During Monday’s episode (8 January), fans watched as Nicola and Harry Mitchell took revenge on Ravi by spiking him and leaving him in the garage. When Harry was forced to leave, however, a vulnerable Ravi began having terrifying visions of his late father and fled into the alleyway.

As Ravi’s family, including his son Nugget, continued to search for him around the Square, Ravi experienced his worst hallucination yet, with Nish attempting to strangle him. Determined to fight back, Ravi launched into a brutal attack on his father, unaware that it was actually Nugget he was hurting.

When the drugs wore off, a confused Ravi had no recollection of recent events, that was until he saw several concerning messages on his phone and headed to the hospital. “Priya is there as he comes to the realisation of what’s happened and says it out aloud,” Thiara explained.

“It’s like a stream of consciousness where Ravi is speaking the realisation for the first time, and Priya is beside him. I don’t think he could hide this from her because the guilt is so intense that he has to tell the person he loves.”

As Ravi and Priya continue to deal with the fallout of the spiking, fans will have to wait and see if the couple learns who was really responsible for Ravi’s visions. In the meantime, with Nugget in critical condition and the police investigating the attack, it looks like the couple has a long road ahead.

Former EastEnders star Rory Jennings has given an insight into how much the cast used to be paid way, way back in the day. The former actor played Lucy Beale’s villainous boyfriend Craig Dixon for a short stint back in 2007, which ended with the character arrested for attacking Patrick Trueman.

Around the same time, Jennings appeared on an episode of Doctor Who, a series of Post Office adverts, and the music video for ‘The Salmon Dance’ by The Chemical Brothers.

Since then he’s moved into football punditry, hosting a YouTube channel and appearing on TalkSPORT.

During an appearance on The Fellas podcast in 2022 that’s been doing the rounds online this week, Jennings spoke about what he earned during his time on the BBC One soap.

It should be taken into account, however, that this was back in 2007, and he was only on the soap for less than 20 episodes, while bigger names and longer-running actors earn a lot more per episode.

“So they would do… basically for people who were hungover, I think, from about 12 till 3 or something like that, they’d do all the EastEnders through the week on a Sunday repeat.”

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“You’d get 80% of your fee again,” he continued, “so you’d get a grand an episode and then 80% of that for the Sunday. So in theory, you could be in four episodes a week which would be £4000 and then you’d get 80% per episode [for the repeat].”

The omnibus was axed back in the 2010s, while BBC Three repeats also went after that channel went online-only. Now that BBC Three is back, the omnibus actually airs on Sunday nights on BBC Three now.

And of course there’s the fact that there are thousands of episodes on iPlayer for actors to potentially earn money from. Although we don’t know the numbers, they are likely to be quite different from how it was in 2007.

EastEnders airs on Mondays-Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast.