EastEnders spoilers follow.
EastEnders has shared a first-look clip of the Hawkins family ahead of them crashing into Walford next week. Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington) will get a shock on Monday’s episode (17 August), when her sisters Jodie and Gemma arrive on the square.
Recent episodes have seen Nicola talking to Gemma on the phone, as well as opening up more about her childhood and her difficult relationship with her mother to Eve.
In the clip, shared by the soap on X, Gemma (Holby City‘s Patricia Potter) is seen driving erratically as she enters the Square, eventually crashing into the front of Peacock Palace and knocking over one of Elaine’s prize statues.
Nicola witnesses the crash before Gemma gets out saying her foot got stuck on the peddle because of her shoes. Picking up the peacock, Gemma then adds: “Oh no, your poor turkey.”
Gemma tells Nicola that she is in “so much trouble”, later saying she’s done something “really stupid” and didn’t know where else to go.
Meanwhile, Jodie (Imposter 22‘s Anna Constable) is desperate to go to the toilet, with Nicola telling her to use the ones in The Vic, rather than letting her into her home as she’s just put baby Ivy down for a nap.
The clip ends with Elaine walking out and screaming: “My peacock!” as Gemma holds the broken bird.
With the two sisters finally here, it won’t be long before they’re joined by Gemma’s husband Ned Roper (Beyond Paradise‘s Jamie Bamber) and son Ryder (Amadeus‘ Felix Uff), as well as family matriarch Rose (Trying‘s Marian McLoughlin).
The soap has already teased that the Hawkins’ arrival will bring up “old wounds and complicated family dynamics” as they are “set to make an explosive impact on the Square”.
Executive producer Ben Wadey added: “The Hawkins family are a fantastic addition to Walford.
“While the family share a fierce loyalty to one another, decades of complicated history and Nicola’s estrangement from them has left fractures within the family that are far from healed.
“We’re all very excited for what we have planned for the family, and we can’t wait for the audience to meet them.”
