EastEnders viewers were on the edge of their seats on Christmas Day as Lauren Branning tore both the Knight and Beale family apart as she uncovered Cindy and Junior's affair

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With several members of the community seemingly having a motive for the crime, a search for Cindy's attacker will soon get underway – and it's now been confirmed that their iden

EastEnders is set to mark its 40th anniversary next year and fans of the popular BBC One soap have been busy predicting what drama could happen in Walford in 2025

EastEnders fans think they have worked out who killed Cindy Beale after the soap icon met her maker in the dramatic two-part special on Christmas Day.

Christmas is a time when the channels go all out with their programme output and the BBC are pulling out all the stops to try and make sure that no-one needs to reach for the remote this year, with a bumper line-up of shows to stop people from switching over.

The Christmas Day special saw Cindy's shocking affair with Junior Knight, played by Micah Balfour, the son of her former husband George Knight ( Colin Salmon ), exposed.

EastEnders will air on BBC One twice on Christmas Day and then again on Boxing Day with Cindy Beale at the centre of the drama

EastEnders has announced that it will reveal the identity of Cindy's (Michelle Collins) Christmas Day attacker during the show's 40th-anniversary week in February.