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"EastEnders star Diane Parish has revealed that she is delighted over her role in this year&amp;#039;s Christmas episodes. The actress&amp;#039;s character Denise Fox returns to the forefront of the soap next week as she becomes embroiled in the ongoing Yusef Khan (Ace Bhatti) storyline.   When Denise discovers Yusef&amp;#039;s abuse of her friend Zainab Masood (Nina Wadia), she joins forces with Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra) in an attempt to rescue her. Parish told BBC Breakfast today: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s fantastic, because we get to move around the Square and be involved in all of the characters&amp;#039; different situations. The fact that Denise is a very good friend of Zainab&amp;#039;s, that kicks her into another mode.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s usually Denise that&amp;#039;s on the wrong side of the trouble! But this time, she sort of comes to the rescue a little bit with Zainab. And then by Christmas, she starts having her problems again!&amp;quot; Discussing Denise&amp;#039;s involvement in Zainab&amp;#039;s story, she continued: &amp;quot;You can still have the angst - it&amp;#039;s just on someone else&amp;#039;s behalf. Sometimes it&amp;#039;s just a different angle of taking your story. There&amp;#039;s so many different textures to this show and so many different ways to be involved. And being involved in Christmas is very, very exciting. It&amp;#039;s going to be a great one, actually.&amp;quot; Denise is also expected to take centre stage in her own right over the festive period as Phil Mitchell&amp;#039;s ongoing stalker drama forces her to revisit her past. Asked whether there is a competition between the soaps at Christmas, Parish replied: &amp;quot;Oh, of course there is - it wouldn&amp;#039;t be any fun if there wasn&amp;#039;t a competition, and it&amp;#039;s great.  &amp;quot;I mean, I hope people do tune in. You&amp;#039;ll be missing out if you don&amp;#039;t! It&amp;#039;s a fantastic couple of episodes that we&amp;#039;ve got this Christmas, and the run-up to Christmas as well next week.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; EastEnders names latest stalker suspects &amp;gt; EastEnders: Is Heather Trott stalking Phil Mitchell? - video &amp;gt; EastEnders star teases Kim, Denise Christmas shock &amp;gt; Read more EastEnders spoilers and news Watch Denise&amp;#039;s EastEnders character trail below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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