Overview

• In a midweek episode, Nugget Gulati told his father his eighteenth birthday was “not far away” while helping plan Avani’s sweet sixteen, contradicting his canonical age of sixteen.
• BBC One shifted EastEnders from its usual 7.30pm slot earlier this week to accommodate summer sports coverage including Wimbledon.
• Episodes continued to drop on BBC iPlayer at 6.30am, allowing online viewers to pull three episodes ahead of the live broadcasts.
• Fans took to X to call the discrepancy a continuity error and compared it with past soap storylines that altered character ages.
• Producers and the BBC have not addressed the error, and online discussion remains active as viewers await a correction.