{"id":734173,"date":"2026-08-11T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734173\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:08:11","slug":"eastenders-spoiler-penny-suffers-a-sudden-health-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734173\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders spoiler: Penny suffers a sudden health scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 7386<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Airs on Thursday 20 August 2026 at 19:30 on BBC One<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Penny is rushed to hospital<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"jack branning, vinny panesar, eastenders\" title=\"Jack Branning, Vinny Panesar, EastEnders\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1998\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/893a1b06-2401-49f2-abf6-9c067f6f20d0.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1ddfba50\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"21\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Penny&#8217;s shop launch day arrives. Vinny urges her to focus on going to the doctors for her swollen leg, but she accuses him of fussing. After Penny asks Vinny to leave, she falls out of her wheelchair. She&#8217;s found by Suki, who encourages her to stop being proud and let Vinny support her.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"25\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Later, on the way to her shop for the grand opening, Penny struggles to breathe. Max and Priya spot her and rush her to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"29\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Denise&#8217;s bad news<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"33\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Denise is told that her chemotherapy still isn&#8217;t working as well as hoped.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"38\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">This means that she&#8217;ll need a stem cell transplant \u2013 how will she react?<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"42\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Elsewhere on the Square<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"46\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\">Lily confides in Joel after some disappointing exam results and they agree to be friends.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"50\" class=\"css-1ncddsh emevuu60\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/soaps\/eastenders\/a73379637\/eastenders-spoilers-priya-decision-about-max\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/soaps\/eastenders\/a73379637\/eastenders-spoilers-priya-decision-about-max\/\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Previous Episode\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-node-id=\"50.0\" class=\"body-btn-link css-1yltkj0 emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Episode<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Episode 7386 Airs on Thursday 20 August 2026 at 19:30 on BBC One Penny is rushed to hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[148028,148026,148027,379,242684,381,96,190731,1156,242683,223205,148025,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-eastenders-spoilers","tag-collection-soaps-spoilers","tag-collection-spoilers","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-012853f5-e0fb-44a8-aa3d-470c7e86e35c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-thu-20-aug-penny-suffers-a-sudden-health-scare","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-eastenders","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734173","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=734173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}