star Michelle Collins has teased what viewers can expect from the soap’s much anticipated Christmas Day drama, when her character’s affair with ex-husband George Knight’s son, Junior, will be exposed. Cindy has gone to great lengths to keep her affair with Junior under wraps from fiancé Ian and feared the truth would come out when Junior’s autistic uncle Kojo recently spotted them together. But it’s a candid conversation with ex-lover David Wicks in Beale’s Eels, back in October, that is set to be her undoing.
Cindy confessed to David how she had become intimate with Junior after being rejected by George - the love of her life - and that she thinks of George when they are in bed together. Unbeknown to Cindy, their chat was recorded on Freddie's birdwatching microphone. Oblivious Freddie has since been selling CDs of his birdwatching sounds as a relaxation aid and has promised the locals that “volumes two and three” will soon be available.
In the run-up to Christmas Day, Cindy is blackmailed by a resident, who has their hands on the incriminating recording. She resorts to desperate measures to cover her back, but the situation escalates until the truth is revealed in spectacular fashion in The Vic, where George has invited the Beale family to join the Knights for dinner. Says Michelle, “You’ll certainly be on the edge of your seats.
I would say it’s dramatic, powerful and moving. A classic EastEnders.” Get the What to Watch Newsletter The latest updat.
