{"id":275675,"date":"2026-02-05T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275675\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:10:12","slug":"eastenders-reveals-emotional-nigel-bates-outcome-in-early-iplayer-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275675\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders reveals emotional Nigel Bates outcome in early iPlayer release"},"content":{"rendered":"

EastEnders<\/a> spoilers follow for Thursday\u2019s episode (5 February), which is available to watch now on streaming service BBC iPlayer and hasn\u2019t yet aired on TV.<\/p>\n

EastEnders has confirmed Nigel Bates\u2019 fate, after a cliffhanger which left his life in serious danger. This week, Nigel and his wife Julie renewed their wedding vows<\/a> in an emotional ceremony, and Julie decided that they would both move back in with Phil Mitchell after their falling out.<\/p>\n

Phil tried and failed to tell Julie about Nigel\u2019s care home place, then was distracted when he discovered that it was Mark who informed her of his secret Portugal plan. But meanwhile, Nigel got into his bath unattended<\/a> and slipped under the surface\u2026<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s episode<\/a>, Phil continued to row with Mark, while Nigel struggled to pull himself out of the water. Phil realised that he had left his friend alone so headed upstairs, and he was horrified to find Nigel underwater unconscious.<\/p>\n

Phil and Mark worked quickly<\/a> to get the water out of Nigel\u2019s lungs, then rang an ambulance. Honey found Julie at Harry\u2019s Barn and told her the news, and she caught her husband as he was being taken away by the paramedics. <\/p>\n

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Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n

Julie went in the ambulance with Nigel, and Phil and Linda followed them to the hospital. As Phil lied and said that he only left his friend for a minute, the doctor explained that Nigel was in a stable condition \u2013 but he could have easily died.<\/p>\n

Outside, Phil admitted to Linda that he felt guilty because he got distracted and left Nigel alone for longer than he should have.<\/p>\n

Linda encouraged him to be honest with Julie, so Phil took her advice and told her the truth. Julie understood and reminded Phil that he ultimately saved Nigel\u2019s life \u2013 but she was furious when Phil confessed that he had kept Nigel\u2019s care home place from her.<\/p>\n

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Related: EastEnders confirms serious health storyline for Nugget in hospital shock<\/a><\/p>\n

The pair later spoke properly by Nigel\u2019s bedside and made peace, with Julie saying that Phil was finding it hard to let go of Nigel because he loves him.<\/p>\n

Realising that they couldn\u2019t go on like this anymore and that they could no longer care for Nigel properly, Phil and Julie came together and agreed to accept the care home place for him before it was too late \u2013 beginning a new chapter of Nigel\u2019s dementia story.<\/p>\n

EastEnders airs on Mondays – Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast.<\/p>\n

Read more EastEnders spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

More information about dementia is available via organisations including the NHS<\/a> and Dementia UK<\/a>. Resources for readers in the US are available via the National Institutes of Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EastEnders spoilers follow for Thursday\u2019s episode (5 February), which is available to watch now on streaming service BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137241,635,142587,637,146,85,46,636,142586,137371,411],"class_list":["post-275675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-ee8be635-dbbd-4fd8-b18c-14395c833872","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-eastenders-reveals-emotional-nigel-bates-outcome","tag-subsection-eastenders","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}