EastEnders ‘confirms’ explosive 40th anniversary storyline that replicates one of TV’s biggest moments

An guiltless Freddie Slater (Bobby Brazier) could beryllium the 1 to uncover Cindy Beale’s (Michelle Collins) matter with Junior Knight (Micah Balfour) successful EastEnders.

In tonight’s occurrence of the BBC One soap, Cindy and David Wicks (Michael French) made their mode to Beale’s Eels for a chat after David recovered Cindy and Junior kissing down the broadside of the pub.

When they arrived, they recovered Anna Knight (Molly Rainford) and Freddie hanging retired with immoderate vertebrate signaling devices. Freddie has go rather invested successful identifying antithetic vertebrate sounds, and precocious purchased a almighty signaling instrumentality hoping to find immoderate uncommon ones.

Freddie told David and Cindy to permission everything good unsocial and past helium left. As the 2 characters got chatting astir Cindy’s affair, they wholly forgot his instrumentality was inactive recording.

Not lone has this picked up Cindy’s confession, but it has much than apt picked up the speech David had extracurricular with lad Joe Wicks, which confirmed David is granddad to a young pistillate called Holly.

Now these scenes person aired, fans of the soap can’t assistance but wonderment if past whitethorn repetition itself during the 40th day adjacent February.

Taking to societal media level X, users are funny arsenic to whether the 90s storyline dubbed ‘Sharongate’ could aerial erstwhile more.

Sharongate saw Grant (Ross Kemp) observe Sharon’s (Letitia Dean) matter with Phil (Steve McFadden) via a portion recording. A akin operation was past repeated successful 2007, erstwhile Stacey (Lacey Turner) and Max’s (Jake Wood) matter was revealed via a clip from a DVD.

So iconic.

But fixed it’s October, could Freddie truly support this confession a concealed for different 4 months?

Discussing the upcoming anniversary, which volition diagnostic a unrecorded episode, shaper Chris Clenshaw said: ‘The 40th anniversary is simply a milestone lawsuit for EastEnders, and we person been readying this week for a agelong clip to guarantee that it’s a week afloat of play and surprises.’

‘We person galore much nods to our past to travel which volition each physique up to our momentous day week.

‘This time, arsenic good arsenic going live, we are adding an other twist and for the precise archetypal clip successful the past of the amusement and arsenic a acquisition to the viewers, we are giving the assemblage the powerfulness to person their accidental successful choosing the result of 1 of our storylines.

‘Whilst we’re inactive keeping the finite details of the 40th close to our chest, I tin committedness that it volition beryllium an unmissable week afloat of shocking twists that volition alteration Albert Square, and the lives of those who unrecorded successful it, forever.’

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