\n Posting online this week he said: \u201cSecret is out. I\u2019m proud to announce I will be joining Eastenders. Christmas is going to be explosive but who\u2019s life am going to ruin?\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The teacher-turned-comedian also posted a black and white clip on his story, panning across Albert Square.\n<\/p>\n
\n He later said in his story: \u201cWhen you tell a lie, you have to tell 10 more to cover it up. That is where I am at now.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n On Friday (September 5), he decided to come clean reposting some of the responses he received.\n<\/p>\n
\n He posted: “Hi, everyone, I am not going to be in \u00a0Eastenders.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: “I went to the set and took a funny picture and it just imploded.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Literally just went to meet the cast. It got so out of hand. My God.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If you know me then you know I love a prank.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Technically I ‘was’ in Eastenders.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I felt so bad because there was so many nice comments. Thank you to everyone who has been so lovely.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Shabaz, who\u00a0is a former\u00a0Rivington and Blackrod High School teacher, also\u00a0pointed out that he had received some abuse from his own community.\n<\/p>\n
\n He later joked he would be taking a short break from social media.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following his earlier post on Easenders\u00a0he was immediately congratulated by a host of media personalities including Amir Khan\u2019s wife, Faryal Makhdoom, The Apprentice winner Harpreet Kaur-Thakrar, BBC presenter Monika Plaha and presenter Nikita Kanda.\n<\/p>\n
\n Most people were disappointed he would be joining the cast at Christmas but seemed clearly forgiving.\n<\/p>\n
\n One said: “Gutted, mate. I was gonna start rewatching eastenders after 10 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another added: “I\u2019ve never wanted a prank to be true more than this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posting online this week he said: \u201cSecret is out. I\u2019m proud to announce I will be joining Eastenders.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}