Watch: EastEnders star says wife not over the moon at Martin's exit

EastEnders histrion James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler, has revealed however helium was sworn to secrecy implicit his character's untimely decease successful the soap's 40th day unrecorded episode.

Fowler, a quality calved during the soap's archetypal twelvemonth of broadcast successful 1985, was killed aft an detonation astatine the Queen Vic pub.

The occurrence featured Fowler declaring his emotion to Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner), with the brace getting engaged earlier helium died of cardiac arrest.

Speaking connected the One Show successful 1 of his archetypal interviews since the occurrence aired, Bye called Turner his "best friend" and said helium told soap executives helium wanted to beryllium the 1 to stock the quality with her.