'It's going to get TENSE...'

George Rainsford tells TV Times about the latest twist for his unlucky-inlove doctor

- ELAINE REILLY

CASUALTY

SATURDAY / BBC1 / 7.40PM / DRAMA

Shy and sweet doctor Ethan Hardy is unlucky in love – even by Casualty’s standards, where relationships fail on a weekly basis!

Since arriving in Holby’s A&E department six years ago, the quietly complex medic (played by fan favourite George Rainsford) has clocked up a number of romantic disasters.

There have been dalliances with colleagues – barista Honey Wright (Chelsee Healey) and fellow doctor Alicia Munroe (Chelsea Halfpenny) – plus affairs with patients Leigh-Anne Carr (Cassie Bradley) and Effie Laurence (Abigail Hardingham).

His entanglement with LeighAnne was particularly ill-advised, as Ethan had previously allowed her boyfriend, villainous Scott Ellisson (Will Austin), to die in the ED in an act of vengeance for him murdering Ethan’s brother, Cal Knight (Richard Winsor).

Then, when a grieving, pregnant Leigh-Anne turned up in Holby, Ethan delivered her baby and started up a relationship with her!

Thankfully, Ethan’s dark side is now firmly in the past, but his bad luck with women still continues… This week, in a surprise new storyline, he discovers he’s accidentally got his best friend’s girlfriend pregnant!

Here, in an exclusive interview, the always-lovely George, 37, tells TV Times more…

This week, Ethan’s in a spot of bother, isn’t he? Can you explain what’s going on?