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"EastEnders&amp;#039; Masood Ahmed - played by Nitin Ganatra - is forced to deal with the shock discovery that his son&amp;#039;s been having an affair with another man next week when he walks in on Syed and Christian together in a passionate embrace. Unable to believe what he&amp;#039;s seeing, Masood rushes out of the flat and heads home, where the reality of his - and his family&amp;#039;s - situation begins to hit home. Masood rumbling the truth, however, is just the beginning - it&amp;#039;s not long before everybody else learns Syed&amp;#039;s secret. Digital Spy recently caught up with Nitin to chat about the moment Masood finds out and how the much-anticipated Chryed reveal comes about...  How does Masood find out about Christian and Syed? &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a birthday party for Syed and they&amp;#039;re all having a good time. Syed receives a call or a text and we never get to see what it is, but he disappears to the flat to deal with something... Christian&amp;#039;s obviously waiting there for him. Then Masood thinks, &amp;#039;This is taking ages&amp;#039;, so he goes to the flat, too. Low and behold, he sees Syed and Christian in a clinch\u2026&amp;quot; How is Masood feeling at that point? &amp;quot;Masood&amp;#039;s world falls apart. He doesn&amp;#039;t react in the same way as Zainab, though - he just runs off. He wanders out of the flat, leaving Christian and Syed wondering who&amp;#039;s seen them. In a state of shock, Masood goes back to the house and lies that the door to the flat was locked and so couldn&amp;#039;t find Syed. When Syed returns, he starts to panic when he hears that Masood went looking for him.&amp;quot; How does Masood deal with the situation? &amp;quot;Masood has no idea what to do with what he&amp;#039;s seen and ends up looking for advice from the imam at the mosque. He&amp;#039;s not particularly helpful, though, as he insists that the situation is on Masood&amp;#039;s shoulders, while warning him not to let the news go public. Masood&amp;#039;s given a choice - either the community will disown the family or the family will have to disown Syed.&amp;quot; What does he eventually do? &amp;quot;After a week of thinking, he tells Zainab in the kindest way possible that their son is gay. Zainab pretends that she doesn&amp;#039;t know, just to add more petrol to the fire\u2026 He&amp;#039;s then trying to convince Zainab to confront the whole situation but she avoids it. It all then builds to this huge reveal at the party\u2026 All along, though, Masood&amp;#039;s saying predatory things to Syed and Christian, teasing them about knowing. So in a very subtle way, he lets them both know that he&amp;#039;s aware of what&amp;#039;s going on and they&amp;#039;d better stop.&amp;quot; Do you think Masood has a dark side? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a lovely thing to play. The New Year episodes with Nina, Johnny and Marc were so good and so explosive, I was thinking, &amp;#039;How do you top that?&amp;#039; What I love about Masood, though, is that he&amp;#039;s a very flexible person. You&amp;#039;ll get a different response form him in almost every situation. He&amp;#039;s not predicable. He has his lighter moments and then his darker moments. It gives a lot of colour to play with.&amp;quot; Were you pleased when you finally read the script where you discovered Syed&amp;#039;s secret? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so relieved! I&amp;#039;ll now stop getting texts and emails that start with, &amp;#039;Hi Oblivious Dad&amp;#039;. I&amp;#039;ve spent five months looking away, just missing or just not hearing conversations and looks between Zainab, Christian and Syed. I&amp;#039;ve not been meant to notice any of it! It&amp;#039;s really nice to be in the loop now.&amp;quot; Is Masood more concerned about how Syed&amp;#039;s secret will make him and his family look or Syed&amp;#039;s struggle? &amp;quot;At first, it&amp;#039;s not about what Syed&amp;#039;s going through at all. It&amp;#039;s about how it makes the family look. It&amp;#039;s a very different dilemma to Zainab&amp;#039;s. She&amp;#039;s a reactive character, whereas Masood&amp;#039;s pointing out that there&amp;#039;s a bigger picture. Although Zainab appears to be the head of the household, they come from a patriarchal background. It&amp;#039;s up to the father of the family to sort situations like this out - and in their culture, you&amp;#039;re left with two choices: reject him or be rejected as a family. The whole community could turn on the Masoods.&amp;quot; Then Amira makes a shock announcement\u2026 &amp;quot;Yeah! She&amp;#039;s pregnant apparently! Now there&amp;#039;s a turnaround\u2026&amp;quot; How does the big reveal come about? &amp;quot;The one thing that&amp;#039;s put Zainab and Masood on a happier note is that Amira&amp;#039;s now pregnant. In their eyes, it&amp;#039;ll solve all their problems. There are some lovely father-son scenes before everything comes out where Masood tries to convince Syed that his future is with Amira and the baby. It&amp;#039;s all looking good after their chat - until the flat warming party. The party&amp;#039;s actually split between the Masoods&amp;#039; and the new flat for space reasons, so while everyone&amp;#039;s enjoying themselves at the Masoods&amp;#039;, Amira&amp;#039;s at the flat and finds out about Syed and Christian when she spots Lucy Beale&amp;#039;s graffiti. Amira freaks out and runs back to the party crying her eyes out. Syed rushes back in, too - and then Christian turns up. In the middle of the party, Christian says, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s about time you told everyone&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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