EastEnders’ Bex Releases Song About Shakil Split In Real Life!

Watching the Shakil and Bex saga unfold on EastEnders has got us feeling all kinds of teenage angst over the past few months, with Bex’s heartache-laced guitar-strumming providing a fitting backing track to the weeks of tears, traumas and Snapchat-based naughtiness.

Now, viewers can get the chance to hear Bex’s songs in full after the actress, Jasmine Armfield, made her latest ballad ‘Boxed Up Broken Heart’ available online.

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Walford’s very own Adele received rave reviews from fans after performing snippets of the track on the show this week. After it went 'viral’ in E20, Jasmine decided to put the full version online IRL.

EastEnders hasn’t been this meta since Billy ran in the Olympics!

Show bosses told Jasmine that they wanted Bex to write an original song for the storyline, and put her in touch with songwriter Gwyneth Herbert:

“I was told they wanted Bex to record an original song, and they were getting a singer/songwriter to write it for her. I had a meeting with Gwyneth Herbert, the writer, and we had a huge chat about everything, about Bex’s feelings, her character. I had a lot of input. I worked really closely with Gwyneth.

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“I was so happy with it. I was like ‘this is perfect for Bex’. Everything that Bex is feeling has been put into a song. It was great!”

“Bex has written this song because she’s got so much going on in her life,” Jasmine continued. “She’s got all these different feelings and all these different emotions.

“She can’t quite put it all into words so I think her way to get round that its to just put it all into a song and to sing about it instead.

“Each lyric has something behind it to hopefully help Bex and to get through to Shakil, there’s definitely a message in there for him.”

“I think it’s going to be quite hard for Bex in the next few months. She’s having quite a hard time at school and I think she’d very confused. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone; she’s genuinely such a kind-hearted girl.”

It’s not the first time that Jasmine’s performed on the show as Bex. Inheriting the musical bug from her mother, (who could forget Sonia’s trumpet skills?), Bex is often seen with her guitar around the square, and even performed in the Queen Vic alongside former character Charlie Cotton (played by musical theater star Declan Bennett).