EastEnders star Kellie Bright has said that she does not believe Linda is responsible for the murder depicted in the soap's flashforward twist.

At the end of tonight's episode, the soap jumped forward to Christmas 2023 in the Vic, with six women of Walford - Linda, Sharon (Letitia Dean), Denise (Diane Parish), Kathy (Gillian Taylforth), Stacey (Lacey Turner) and Suki (Balvinder Sopal) - all staring at a dead body on the floor.

The identities of the murderer - or murderers - and the victim will be pivotal to the rest of the storylines this year, and Bright has admitted that she too is still in the dark.

"This is all guesswork on my behalf, but in my mind I haven't done it," she said. "But that is just based on nothing other than what I think or felt when we were filming it.

"I've got a feeling, I have a very strong feeling, or more of an idea that the victim was going to be a really big player in this show and I've slightly changed my mind, and I think it might be someone who is not in the show yet. A character that we're yet to meet.

"If I had to put money on it, I don't think it's me and I don't think it's [Denise]. I also think it could be a group thing, with the women all protecting each other but who knows, they could be protecting Linda!"

EastEnders continues Mondays to Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One.