The actor, 29, took to his Instagram Story on Sunday to celebrate his birthday, telling fans he had been surrounded by love all day and was feeling grateful .
The BBC soap made history in an episode back in February when they teased a murder in a flash forward, but kept the identities of the corpse and the killer a huge secret.
The actor, 30, who played the role of mechanic Keanu Taylor in the BBC One soap, was pictured picking up his clean clothes from a launderette in east London on Friday.