EastEnders airs homophobic attack on Ryder Hawkins with sickening twist
Ryder Hawkins (Felix Uff) has been cruelly attacked because of his sexuality – with a sickening EastEnders twist seeing the incident orchestrated by his own father Ned (Jamie Bamber). Last week, Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington) thought that Ryder could benefit from some downtime away from Ned. While they ate lunch at the box park, she noticed a notification from a gay dating app appear on his phone, and quickly locked the device so that he couldn’t see she’d discovered his secret. The following day, Ryder sat alone in the Square Gardens and glanced through his phone. Nicola approached and asked what his plans for the day were. He said that he had a date, and when asked whether it was with someone she knew, he asserted that his aunt had “never met her“. The comment took Nicola by surprise, and later that day she was stunned to see him with a girl, Alice, in the bar. What she didn’t realise was that Ryder had met this girl just moments earlier in the park, and that …
