Although a nervous Stacey and Kush
will prepare to come clean with their other halves,
Shabnam soon receives some upsetting news that will change everything.
With
Kush now realising that his wife can't know the truth and Martin trying
to get to the bottom of Stacey's strange behaviour, tensions between
the foursome will reach a peak.
Lacey Turner, who plays Stacey, said:
"It all begins when Kush tells Stacey and Martin that Shabnam has been
to the doctors and Stacey goes to talk to her about it. Instantly
Shabnam snaps, but I think it is only because she is so upset about her
situation and she doesn't want to talk about it. This
whole situation is a huge mess, as for Stacey it would be easier not to
be friends with Kush and Shabnam. But Stacey is so fond of Shabnam, she
is her best friend and the closest person she has around her at the
moment. It's certainly tricky!"
Under
more pressure than ever, Stacey will start to develop contractions on
Christmas Eve, but decides to push through them in order to watch her
daughter Lily perform in the community centre's nativity.
Stacey
eventually goes into labour and gives birth to a baby boy, but as
everyone celebrates the new arrival, one resident begins to put two and
two together and comes to a startling realisation.
Following the birth of her son, Stacey later returns home
but Kush and Carmel quickly grow paranoid and wonder if a distracted
Shabnam has discovered the truth.
With secrets rife, Shabnam eventually confronts Stacey, but what does she know and will Stacey come clean?
Shedding
light on her character's complicated situation, Turner added: "Stacey
is really happy with Martin, which is why she is so desperate for him
not to find out the truth about the baby. She knows it
will break his heart and if she had her way, Martin would be the father.
Stacey can really see a future with him now, which is not something she
would have said a few months ago! She would like to
think that Martin will never find out. Although deep down she knows it
is wrong to lie to him, she can't bear to think of how hurt he will be
or the thought of losing him.''
Teasing Shabnam's reaction if she was to discover the
truth, she added: "I think she would be devastated, angry, betrayed and
more. And she would have every right to be, but Kush and Stacey never
set out to hurt anyone. They didn't have an affair, it was one drunken
night when Kush and Shabnam were on a break. What they
should have done was told Shabnam then, but hindsight is a wonderful
thing and if they knew then what they do now, maybe things would be
different. That's what makes this whole situation even more
complicated."
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