Cindy Beale makes huge mistake trying to hide Junior affair in EastEnders – and someone is onto her
A WALFORD resident is onto Cindy Beale as she continues to sleep with her stepson – but will she get caught?
Cindy Beale and Junior Knight go to extreme measures to keep their affair a secret next week in EastEnders.
Upcoming scenes will see Peter get annoyed that Bobby was promoted to manager at Beale’s Eels, and not him.
Lauren reasons that there must be another reason Cindy did this as she wouldn’t do Bobby a favour without motive.
Peter wrongly assumes it’s down to their family dramas.
When Junior overhears Peter, Lauren and Gina speculating about Cindy, he offers Peter a job on his new contract to keep him out of their way.
Cindy is incensed to discover Peter is going to work for Junior and offers him the manager’s job at Beale’s Eels, ready to demote Bobby.
When that doesn’t work, she orders Junior not to hire Peter, but Junior refuses to rescind his job offer.
Lauren quizzes Cindy on why she’s so determined to stop Peter working with Junior and, to cover her tracks, Cindy tells a lie to discredit Junior.
Later in the week, Junior tempts Cindy to a late-night glass of wine at his place, so she gets all glammed up and makes her excuses to head over there.
However, in the meantime, Gina arrives at Junior’s door and asks to move in.
He’s thrown by the request and is panicking that Cindy will turn up so upsets Gina by rejecting her.
Can they pair continue to hide their affair from the Knights?
Will Lauren figure out what they are up to?
EastEnders airs Monday to Thursday on BBC One and iPlayer.
Best soap affair love triangles
LOVE triangles are a fundamental part of soap-land, but which ones have become the most iconic?
EASTENDERS
Bradley/Stacey/Max: Stacey Slater began an affair with boyfriend Bradley Branning’s dad Max in 2007.
Despite their romps, Stacey still married Bradley, but their deceit came out in an iconic Christmas Day episode that year.
Grant/Sharon/Phil: Heading even further back in Walford history, EastEnders fans were gripped in the 90s as Sharon Watts had a one-night stand with her brother-in-law Phil Mitchell.
Sharon confided in best friend Michelle Fowler – not realising it was caught on tape – and her husband Grant eventually found out and played it in front of everyone at the Queen Vic.
Syed/Amira/Christian: Syed Masood was engaged to Amira before realising he had feelings for another man, Christian, which he confessed to him on his wedding day.
A devout Muslim, Syed refused to admit his true sexuality and went ahead and married Amira anyway, but when they returned, the two men started an affair before being caught in the act by Amira.
CORONATION STREET
Shelley/Peter/Lucy: Peter Barlow took the concept of a love triangle and ran with it in Coronation Street – extending it to bigamy.
He was in a relationship with Shelley Unwin but started dating Lucy Richards, and quickly married her after she fell pregnant with his son, Simon.
But it didn’t stop him also marrying Shelley, but he was eventually caught when Lucy turned up in Weatherfield and the two women confronted him.
Ken/Deidre/Mike: Back in 1982, Deirdre Barlow started sleeping with her husband’s nemesis Mike Baldwin in secret, before confessing all a year later.
When Mike turned up at the marital home, Deirdre was being throttled by her husband who then kicked her out, but years later they reconciled.
Maria/Aidan/Eva: In 2017, Aidan Connor started sleeping with girlfriend Eva Price’s best friend, Maria Connor.
Eva eventually found out and she decided to take revenge by faking a pregnancy, spending his money and planned to confront him on their wedding day.
But she had a change of heart when a remorseful Aidan confessed, and decided to marry him anyway, only for Maria to arrive and expose her fake pregnancy.
EMMERDALE
Ross/Debbie/Pete: Debbie Dingle found herself torn between two brothers, Ross and Pete Barton in 2015 in Emmerdale.
She eventually decided to marry Pete but yet again, a soap wedding day was ruined when the groom learned of his bride’s betrayal via a recording played at the wedding.
Chrissie/Robert/Aaron: Robert Sugden was married to Chrissie White and all seemed well – until he began a steamy affair with Aaron Dingle.
Robert’s ex Katie Sugden almost exposed the affair – but fell to her death before she had the chance.
However, a guilty Aaron eventually cracked and told Chrissie about the affair – after which she announced it to the whole pub.