Casualty fans were left in shock on Saturday night, as the show was rocked by a huge explosion during a gender reveal party.
Pregnant Nikki and boyfriend Eli were preparing to reveal the gender of her baby with a fun gender cannon which was supposed to send confetti fluttering gently to the ground.
Eli hadn’t wanted to know the gender of their baby – but, knowing Nikki did, he set up the cannon in the back garden.
“I called in a few favours,” Eli explained. “I had my sister organise the colours. I just built the thing. I thought you deserved something special.”
Eli prepared to film the reveal as Nikki leaned to light the fuse, counting down and letting the flame flutter into life.
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But when nothing happened for a moment, she remarked: “Shoddy work, Eli” – right before the cannon exploded, sending them both sprawling backwards.
As the paramedics rushed to the property, Eli insisted: “It was just supposed to blow confetti, but it backfired!”
Shocked fans immediately flocked to Twitter to share their fright at the explosion, with one posting: “Saw that coming a mile away and still jumped haha! #Casualty.”
Someone else posted: “A gender reveal cannon? What could possibly go wrong???”
“This is going to go horribly wrong, isn’t it?” another viewer predicted, as someone else simply penned: “KABOOM!”
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A fifth agreed: “Could see that gender reveal cannon going wrong from a mile off, but still jumped out of my seat when it happened!”
Elsewhere in the episode, fans were left fuming as they spotted a major “plot fail” between Jan and Ffion.
Ffion had been left with an injured shoulder and a nail in her foot – but doctors later discovered a mass in her breast.
But despite the tense outcome, some viewers were simply confused that a breast exam would have been performed during treatment for such an acute injury.
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Taking to social media, one tweeted: “Hold on. Shoulder injury and a nail in the foot. How the heck does that involve a breast exam? #PlotFail #Casualty.”
Someone else echoed: “She had a nail through her foot & an injured shoulder, why was Dylan examining her breasts? #Casualty.”
But others were left fearing for Ffion as Dylan explained he’d found a “mass” in her breast – especially when she admitted there was a family history of breast cancer.
“I lost two aunts and a grandmother,” she told Dylan.
But he advised her not to “jump to any conclusions”.
Fans were left terrified for the future of Jan and Ffion’s relationship – just as it looked like they could get back together.
One tweeted: “Oh f***, don’t tell me they’re setting up to kill Ffion off!”.
While another agreed: “I don’t wanna watch Ffion go through this.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
