Wadia: 'Enders is therapeutic!

EastEnders star Nina Wadia has revealed she loves playing highly-strung Zainab Khan - because she gets all her stress out on set.

Busybody Zainab arrived in Albert Square with her brood in 2007, and Nina said she loves her character's confrontational nature.

"It's great because I don't take things out on my real husband, I take it out on the fake husbands instead," Nina confessed at the British Soap Awards.

"It's quite therapeutic as far as I'm concerned."

Zainab has had a turbulent time in recent months, having confessed to her family how she sent her abusive ex Yusef to his death in the burning B&B at Christmas.

And Nina is keen to see some "happy times" ahead for the shop worker.

"I think she needs to move on and be happy again, that would be a bit of fun, but who knows what the year holds," she said.