‘Eli can't be pushed around'

Davood Ghadami on moving from Walford to Holby…

- ELAINE REILLY

Watch out, Holby City Hospital: There’s a new pioneering surgeon on Darwin Ward this week – and he’s bursting with ambitious ideas on how to improve things!

Clinical Lead Eli Ebrahimi – played by former EastEnder Davood Ghadami – arrives with another newbie, stern nurse Madge Britton (The Salisbury Poisonings star Clare Burt), and a very familiar face in a new role as an Improvement Director (sorry, we’ve been sworn to secrecy and cannot reveal who it is!).

TV Times caught up with Davood, 38, to find out more…