I think he said his name tonight - when he was asking for a hug

But I wasn't listening properly :dissap:

His name is Masood Ahmed
(I just wiki-ed it)

I wanna know why the other night the mother said this is my family and had a pic without Sayed in it...has she also disowned the daughter who went travelling for a couple of months over a year ago and who everyone seems to have forgotten exists?

Why do they call his wife Mrs Masood then?

And .........why has Billy got the kids now? Where's Honey gone?

She was ina  car crash or something...shes on life support in an invisible hospital

I know this one!!  She's in hospital following a car crash that killed her dad

A good point - I picked up on that too. I think it's just sloppy writing, although the writers will probably defend themselves by saying that Zainab was making a point about who'd been removed (i.e. Syed) rather than who was left in the photo. (Shabnam wasn't in it in the first place.)


As for Shabnam: I doubt she's coming back anytime soon, although officially the producers are keeping the option open. She's currently in Pakistan, and get's mentioned every so often.

I may be wrong, but in Islam (or it could be specific to Pakistan) they have a different system on what constitutes your surname. Some take their mother's name and some take their father's forename. Eg. Imran Khan's dad was called Ikramullah Khan Niazi (according to Wiki). Some times they adopt Bin or Ibn which is equivalent to 'son of' (like Mac and O' and Ben in Judaism).

Thank you ..........when is the child benefit being paid to Billy then as he's their main carer? I assume he also should be entitled to carers allowance too (for the daughter , forgot her name) .........he should be quids in by his standards

They have mentioned this, but (IIRC) Billy dismissed it as taking "ages" to come through. In reality, he should be getting money, of course, but this is Billy we're talking about!

Yep .........and he's bound to cock it up somehow

I love it when people leave the show and they mention them being in Hertfordshire or Essex like it's the other side of the world. When I used to watch Neighbours they always left for Tasmania

Thanks Suzy that sounds likely.

Squiggle that's always confused me too lol. The family pic was photoshopped by Sayed's younger brother (oops forgotten his name) on Zainab's instruction. The Masood's are my fave family


The storyline that keeps going totally over my head are the 3 youngsters, girl with blue hair but mainly Fat Boy, or is it correct to say Phat Boy these days? what's with all the ice cream van thing and all that stuff he comes out with that's so ott, hope they aren't in it for much longer

I tell myself its an age thing! Over my head the lot of it, mind you I never was cool

I can't see why they are there in the first place, unless the producers think they're appealing to a yoof audience

They already have their own spin-off show...it's crap

What I don't understand where they all came from ... I just turned on one night and they were there

So glad I'm not the only one lol. I watch and listen but nothing goes in when they're talking, I ask hubby if he can follow it and he says no as well. Could be an age thing  but I think it's more likely that their storyline is soooo boring my brain tunes out

that sounds almost cool

Is on BBC3 only..thankfully

I agree .......let em have their own show (which they've got) the kids bore me to death. I'd far rather see Pat and Peggy having a fight .........'yer cah, yer b**tch' and all that.

Gosh ... what's it called? I feel tempted to look at it

Its called E20 I think....oh shame its finished!!!

Life's a bitch

I'm sure you can find it on catch-up

Hot damn ... homework!!!

is it a drugs van? I don't watch eastenders whilst at uni but I know that we have a drugs van masked as an ice cream van here.

 is there where I say High Five or Yo Bro

yeah blud innit

did I say that right

Tbh I've still no understanding of what the ice cream van thing was about  although I'm now remembering Billy tried to get Phat Boy to buy some drugs that he found in a package he stole, whole other storyline lol

Oh I thought it was blood, innit,  some of us need an urban dictionary lol

Am I right then? Am I the one who's down wiv the street kids man *does funny sideways V sign across face*

Sounds like you can mix with the kids on the block  have you got a homey

PMSL I was just coming in to say the same

No Way!  My Uni life was properly dull  (well apart from falling in rivers, and waking up in a field).

The pic that was photoshopped by the younger son on Zainab's order previously had Sayed and his wife in with the new baby as well as Zainab and Masood. Now Zainab doesn't want a connection with Sayed he's been chopped out of the photo

Yeah, we are quite curious as to how to crack the code...like do I have to ask for an ice cream in a specific way, or do I just say a 99flake and some drugs please.
We can also watch exchanges going on from our front room and from the gym we use haha.