EastEnders routinely inspires violence in its viewers. OK, in us. And the violence is mainly directed at our sofa, accompanied by yells of "This is so rubbish! Why is this even on? Arrrgh!"
However, sometimes this little violent whirlpool leaks out from inside our heads and ends up elsewhere, like the outside of Lacey Turner's head.
Basically, Lacey Turner, who plays Stacey in EastEnders, got beaten up in a car park. In a supermarket car park.
Even though it's a TV show that preposterously assumes there's a corner of East London not full of preening, self-involved, asymmetrical-haircutted fashion students with rich parents, a collection of brightly-coloured plastic sunglasses and a well-established eating disorder, EastEnders still has the power to shock.
Although it mainly shocks by occasionally sneaking in scenes of Hostel-style torture porn at 7:30pm and by keeping Bobby Davro in gainful employment, sometimes EastEnders can shock in the real world, too. Past examples of this include Dirty Den webcamming his cock to a journalist and Letitia Dean's big red face on Strictly Come Dancing. And a present example of this is EastEnders star Lacey Turner getting lamped in the head in a supermarket car park.
Apparently Lacey Turner was punched in the head after leaving a nightclub with Aaron Sidwell, who plays that boy in EastEnders who was so mentally ill that he kidnapped his dad and shot his dad's wife and then suddenly got better for no logical reason whatsoever. Now reports Lacey's nightclub attack in more detail than we could ever hope to:
A fellow guest at the club says: 'I left at around the same time and saw Lacey and Aaron walking across a nearby car park when the group of men approached them. There were a few words exchanged and suddenly one of the blokes lashed out. He hit her with a very powerful punch — it knocked her to the ground. She looked really shaken up and had to be helped to her feet. Everyone stopped. They couldn't believe what had happened. A couple of people helped her into a car and she went home.'
It sounds shocking, we know, and it can't have been especially pleasant for Lacey Turner either, but she wasn't badly injured enough to affect her work. And if you think that's bad, just wait until next week – the bloke who plays Ian Beale is going to have a bottle fight with a sailor after an illegal dogfight turns sour.
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