EastEnders' Tina Carter caught coronavirus

EastEnders\' Tina Carter will be recovering from coronavirus when the BBC One soap returns.

The show is currently off air after running out of episodes amid the pandemic, but when the programme returns on September 7th, actress Luisa Bradshaw-White will be a part of one of the main storylines, in which her bar manager character Tina has been struck down with Covid-19.

Speaking on \'EastEnders: Secrets from the Square\', Luisa said: "Tina got coronavirus and was living with Ash and Iqra.

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"I think Tina now comes out thinking, \'I really want a relationship, I want love.\'

"So then really we start from there."

Luisa\'s on-screen sister and former \'Bad Girls\' co-star Linda Henry\'s \'EastEnders\' character Shirley Carter is in for an emotional time in forthcoming episodes.

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Speaking about her upcoming plot, Linda said: "The past comes back to bite Shirley on the bum."

Luisa said: "It\'s a really exciting storyline, she [Linda] cried.

"Because you do cry. She gets really emotional."

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Linda added: "It\'s going to be brilliant."

Elsewhere during chat on the spin-off show, Linda admitted she was left "heart-broken" when Cheryl Fergison\'s character Heather Trott was killed off in 2012, but she still goes on holiday with the actress.

She said: "Broke my heart when they got rid of Cheryl.

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"We still see each other, we go on holiday with each other, every day was a lovely day at work with her."

\'EastEnders\' will kick off "series two" on Monday September 7th after being off air since June 16th.