HOTTES NEWS TODAY!!! EastEnders’ Grant causes chaos – with imminent death threat issued

Grant Mitchell’s attempts to help his son Mark backfired massively in EastEnders tonight. He seems to have made matters infinitely worse, with a sinister threat being made on Mark’s life.

At the top of tonight’s episode, Mark pulled his uncle Phil aside for a private chat, with Grant frustrated at being left out of whatever predicament he was up against.

Sister Sam then caught him up with the basic ins and outs of Mark’s dangerous debts, telling Grant that Phil previously helped him out of a “really tricky situation” but now Mark is in more trouble and “struggling to pay it back”.

Mark, meanwhile, asked Phil for a loan, but an accommodating Phil told him he needed a week to get it together. When Grant barrelled in insisting it’s “his business” too, Mark told him he needs to find £90,000 — as soon as possible.

“Maybe I can talk to them, buy you some more time,” Grant said, with Mark adamantly turning him down before storming off.

Grant and Phil then discussed the matter, with Grant demanding to know who Mark owes. He was reeling to learn that it’s Russell Delaney, with whom he has a lot of history.

“I’ll reason with him, we’re old mates,” Grant said, but Phil refused to hand over Delaney’s contact details. Still, Grant went behind his back and tracked Delaney down.

Pleasantries between the two men soon turned sour, with Delaney throwing a punch over the fact Grant previously slept with his wife, Joanne. Grant had no trouble hitting back, and when Phil arrived to try and make peace, Grant continued to make matters worse.

“Mark’s debt? Double it,” Delaney growled. “And if he don’t cough up by the end of next week, I’ll kill him.”

How will Grant straighten this one out with Mark?

Elsewhere on the BBC soap, it’s been reported that Gray Atkins (played by Toby-Alexander Smith) will make a surprise cameo in the near future, almost four years after he was finally exposed and jailed for multiple murders and the abuse of his wife, Chantelle Atkins.

 his return — the details of which are being kept under wraps — will have huge ramifications for the residents of Walford.

GRANT Mitchell has found himself at the heart of a fresh punch-up and chilling death threat on his return to EastEnders – with his son’s life hanging in the balance.

The hardman, played by Ross Kemp, made a sensational comeback to the BBC One soap last month.

An emotive storyline saw Grant return for the heartbreaking death of his old pal Nigel Bates.

Though he’s back to his bad boy ways as he attempts to build bridges with son Mark Fowler Jnr – yet has now put his life in grave danger.

Scenes in Wednesday’s EastEnders episode see Mark asking for a loan from uncle Phil Mitchell, as gangster Russell ups his demand.

He owes a whopping £90K sum but Phil offers to lend him £30K to try to buy him time.

After learning of his son’s financial predicament, Grant confronted Russell to try to sort things out.

Yet things went horribly wrong when the gangster reminded him he had slept with his wife – before punching Peggy Mitchell’s son in the face.

Phil burst in and said to Russell: “Listen, I will call you in the morning and straighten everything out’.

Grant interjected: “We ain’t straightening anything out.

“My son ain’t paying you a penny”.

Russell pointed to Phil and said: “Remember now why you did all the talking.

“Mark’s debt? Double it. And if he don’t cough up by the end of next week, I’ll kill him”.

After he left, Phil ranted at Grant: “Are you happy now?

“Are you satisfied?

“You have just put a hit out on your own son”.

The episode wrapped with EastEnders’ iconic duff-duff theme tune, so it remains to be seen if Mark will pay his way out of the situation.

EastEnders airs on BBC One tonight at 730pm.