EastEnders star lands major new BBC role – and it’s worlds away from Walford
He is joining a thriller for its second season which is said to be even more climactic than the first
AN EASTENDERS star has landed a new role in a major BBC drama which will see him transported to a totally different environment.
Shaheen Jafargholi is known for playing Shakil Kazemi on the beloved soap.
The teen died in 2018 in part of an EastEnders knife crime storyline when he was stabbed by a young gang leader.
Shaheen, now 27, has been revealed as one of the new cast members on the second season of BBC Three show Wreck.
The comedy horror follows the story of a young man called Jamie as he gets a job on a cruise ship to find out what happened to his sister.
She had been working on the same boat three months beforehand when she mysteriously vanished.
Velorum, the company that run the cruise, claimed Pippa ended her life by jumping into the ocean – but her teen brother didn’t buy the story.
While the rest of the crew seem oblivious, wrapped up in partying and debauchery, Jamie attempts to investigate a series of murders he discovers taking place on board.
At the end of season one he makes a discovery about a huge secret on the ship that explains why crew members keep dying.
Season two is said to be set a few months after the bloody finale of the first series.
A group of survivors led by Jamie prepare to fight back against the sinister Velorum – on land this time.
They plan to expose the company’s misdeeds, and to do that, have to go undercover at the organisation’s new wellness festival in the remote Slovenian countryside.
Shaheen is just one of the new actors that will be joining the show for its second series, alongside TV legend Alan Dale, Greg Austin, Carolyn Bracken, Niamh Walsh, Buck Braithwaite, Bradley Riches, Sam Buttery, Phil Martin, and Orlando Norman.