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\n\t\tSheila gets ever-closer (Picture: BBC\/Metro)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tSheila gets ever-closer (Picture: BBC\/Metro)<\/p>\n
To say that Chelsea Fox<\/a>\u00a0(Zaraah Abrahams<\/a>) is having a rough time in EastEnders<\/a>\u00a0would be an understatement of epic proportions, somewhat akin to saying this week has been \u2018a bit warm\u2019.<\/p>\n No, our Chels is really going through the wars at the moment. First of all, Ian Beale<\/a>\u00a0(Adam Woodyatt<\/a>) hit her son Jordan (Izaiah Hagan-Brown) with his car<\/a>, the accident coming after she\u2019d just bitten his head off, amplifying her guilt ten-fold.<\/p>\n As she watched over her boy in hospital, she leaned heavily on her mum, Denise<\/a>\u00a0(Diane Parish<\/a>), who was hiding her own secret: she\u2019d just been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)<\/a>, a fast-growing and aggressive type of blood cancer.<\/p>\n Though she tried to delay treatment, reasoning that her daughter and grandson needed her, when the truth was revealed, she ultimately decided to fight the disease with all she had and admitted herself into hospital for the month-long procedure.<\/p>\n Struggling without her mum, Chelsea was lifted by the return of Libby Fox (Belinda Owusu)<\/a> \u2013 who\u2019ll always be Squiggle to us \u2013 who she began to open up to about the emotional and financial challenges she was facing in the aftermath of Jordan\u2019s accident. <\/p>\n She also let slip that the grandma of Jordan\u2019s serial killer dad, Gray Atkins<\/a>\u2019 (Toby-Alexander Smith<\/a>), had been attempting to send money for a while, but that she\u2019d always rejected it.<\/p>\n \t\t Libby wasn\u2019t having that, though. Why not accept the support that Sheila was so readily offering? <\/p>\n It\u2019s not as though she\u2018s a serial killer too, is it? Libby reached out to her, causing some friction between the sisters, but Chelsea eventually accepted that Libby was doing what she thought was best for the family, and agreed to meet her\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026which was incredibly awkward, at first. <\/p>\n Sheila waxed lyrical about her estrangement from Gray, and how his habit of murdering people effectively ended her law career, because people don\u2019t want to take legal advice from the grandma of a serial killer, unfortunately.<\/p>\n \t\t Sheila presented as a great-grandmother who desperately wanted to support her great-grandchildren, though one who accepted that her grandson\u2019s actions made that difficult, with her confirming that Karen Taylor<\/a>\u00a0(Lorraine Stanley<\/a>) was keeping her other great-grandchildren, Mackenzie (Isaac Lemonius) and Mia (Mahalia Malcolm) far away from her.<\/p>\n Though she initially dismissed Sheila when she became uncomfortable with her pressing to see Jordan, a later conversation with the boy himself and aunty Kim Fox<\/a>\u00a0(Tameka Empson<\/a>) implored her to reach out to Sheila again.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tDon’t miss a Soaps scoop! Add us as a Preferred Source\t\t\t<\/p>\n As a loyal Metro Soaps reader, we want to make sure you never miss our articles when searching for stories. We have all the latest soaps news, spoilers, videos, and interviews, with a vibrant community of highly engaged readers.<\/p>\n Click the button below and tick\u00a0Metro.co.uk\u00a0to ensure you see stories from us first in Google Search.<\/p>\n \nAdd us as a Preferred Source<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \t\t They met at the tube station, where Sheila gave her a cheque, and Chelsea returned the favour with a picture of Jordan\u2026which the devious grandma then slid into her purse beside a picture of Gray.<\/p>\n You know, the serial-killer grandson she never sees? Yeah, that one.<\/p>\n \t\t Chelsea eventually acquiesced, emotionally fraught in the aftermath of learning that none of the family were stem-cell matches for Denise. Turning to Sheila, she found the insidious grandma ready to comfort her and, in return, allowed her to meet Jordan.<\/p>\n She attempted to do her due diligence, though. She reached out to Karen, but missed her return call, and the message that Sheila is an epic wrong\u2019un, to whom Gray could \u2018do no wrong\u2019. Gulp.<\/p>\n Next week, Chelsea, Libby and Jordan come across Sheila, but a sequence of events lead Chelsea to cut the visit short, leaving Sheila fearful that she won\u2019t see Jordan again. Undeterred, though, Sheila turns up the next day with the wheelchair Jordan needs and drops heavy hints that she\u2019ll continue to financially support him.<\/p>\n Falling deeper and deeper in with the granny of your mad, murdering ex probably isn\u2019t the key to all of Chelsea\u2019s problems, but we\u2019re sure it\u2019s going to make a fascinating watch!<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"Chelsea](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEI_300730025-9ffd.jpg\")
\n\t\tLibby\u2019s return has buoyed Chelsea (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barnes\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n![\"LIbby](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782376573_906_SEI_300611468-76e6.jpg\")
\n\t\tSheila swore blind that she had nothing to do with Gray (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barnes\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n![\"Soaps](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782376574_46_SEI_278522320-46a3.jpg\")
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\n\t\tAnother run in with Sheila shakes Chelsea (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barnes\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n
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