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"EastEnders star Nina Wadia has admitted that she wants &amp;#039;lighter&amp;#039; material ahead for her character Zainab Khan. Zainab recently reached a huge turning point as she finally made peace with Christian Clarke, the partner of her son Syed (Marc Elliott). The mum-of-four decided to bury the hatchet with Christian (John Partridge) shortly after she had confessed the truth about the night of the B&amp;amp;B blaze, when she sent her abusive husband Yusef back into the flames. Wadia told PA of Zainab&amp;#039;s future: &amp;quot;I finally get to show the world she&amp;#039;s not a homophobe. It was very emotional filming those scenes with John Partridge. I&amp;#039;m hoping they lighten her up a bit now.&amp;quot; The actress also reaffirmed her desire to see Zainab reunited with ex-husband Masood (Nitin Ganatra) in the near future. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve known Nitin for about 20 years now - I think I&amp;#039;m more married to him than my own husband! It&amp;#039;s been really difficult not having him around,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ve paired me up with Diane Parish for the Minute Mart stuff. I think they like the duo there, which is great fun and girl power, but I do miss working with Nitin.&amp;quot; EastEnders continues on Thursday (March 15) at 7.30pm on BBC One. &amp;gt; EastEnders&amp;#039; Nina Wadia wants Zainab, Christian friendship &amp;gt; EastEnders&amp;#039; Nina Wadia broke down over Zainab scene &amp;gt; Read more EastEnders news and spoilers Watch Zainab&amp;#039;s EastEnders character trail in the video below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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