Fans of EastEnders will of course know that Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing) is still pretending that she’s pregnant with Max Branning’s child, however, when he and Kirsty are due to go for her 16 week scan next week, things take a dramatic turn…

The drama begins on Monday, May 27 when an excited Max (Jake Wood) tells everyone at Kim Fox’s party that he and Kirsty are about to find out the sex of their baby at the scan. Pressured, Kirsty feigns illness and tells Max she needs to go home, and though she implores him to stay at the party, Max is determined to be there for her all the way through, so he goes home with her… Read more & comment »

EastEnders have cast a familiar face in Daniel Coonan to play Kirsty Branning’s violent ex, Carl White, the Sun newspaper reports.

According to the publication Carl, who is being played by a former EastEnders small-part actor,  is set to be the biggest tough guy the long-running BBC soap has ever seen, and will throw a real spanner in the works for Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) and her husband Max (Jake Wood).
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Fans of EastEnders will of course know that Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing) has a lot of problems right now after she lied to her husband Max about being pregnant…

As we heard Kirsty explain to her friend Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) she made up the pregnancy when she feared Max (Jake Wood) was about to leave her and go back to his former wife, Tanya (Jo Joyner).

However, it was of course Tanya who convinced Max that – given there’s no chance of her taking him back – he should be supporting Kirsty and that he should be happy that she’s carrying his baby… Read more & comment »

Fans of EastEnders will know that Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing) has lied and told Max (Jake Wood) that she’s pregnant with his baby…

She of course did so in a desperate attempt to keep him from going back to Tanya (Jo Joyner) however, she was devastated when Max told her he wanted her to abort the baby.

But after Tanya told Max there was absolutely no chance of them getting back together, Max did an about turn and told Kirsty he wants the baby and he wants them to be a proper family… Read more & comment »

Hollyoaks have triumphed at this year’s All About Soaps Awards, bringing home more awards than any other mainstream soap!

The hit Channel 4 soap collected three trophies through public votes, one more than both EastEnders and Emmerdale who received two each, and Coronation Street who just took home one.
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When Max Branning’s wife Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) made a shock arrival on the Square on Christmas Day, it seemed that her time in Walford was to be short lived given that her husband did everything he could to get her to leave the area…

However, in a dramatic plot twist, after Kirsty did in fact leave, Max (Jake Wood) went in search of her when his fiancé and former wife Tanya Branning (Jo Joyner) ended their relationship.

As fans will know, Max and Kirsty subsequently returned to Albert Square together and have been living the B&B… Read more & comment »

Fans of EastEnders will of course know that Max ‘I Can’t Keep It In My Trousers’ Branning is currently facing the wrath of his daughters Abi (Lorna Fitzgerald) and Lauren (Jacqueline Jossa) for having seemingly resumed his relationship with his wife Kirsty Branning…

Because of course, when Kirsty first turned up on the Square at Christmas, Max told everybody that he’d married her on the spur of the moment when he was separated from Tanya (Jo Joyner) and though she’s officially his wife, he considered the whole thing a mistake and the marriage was on paper only.

However, now that Tanya has ditched him once again, he’s reunited with Kirsty, and to add insult to injury, he’s staying with her at the B&B on the Square, which is where Abi found them seemingly in flagrante this week… Read more & comment »

As we reported earlier this week, Max Branning (Jake Wood) is set to track down his estranged wife Kirsty in forthcoming episodes, however, it’s certainly not going to be a hearts and flowers reunion as poor Max will end up receiving a beating from Kirsty’s brother, Adam!

However, Kierston Wareing, who of course plays Kirsty, has revealed that Max’s reappearance in her character’s life causes her quite a shock, because she had thought things were well and truly over between herself and Max…

And justifiably so since Kirsty left Walford having handed Max the signed divorce papers that he’d been asking for. Read more & comment »

Fans of EastEnders may know that Jo Joyner, who plays Tanya Branning, is set to leave the show for a few weeks in order to spend time with her young family…

And of course, given the intense drama that’s focused on the arrival and subsequent departure of Tanya’s love rival Kirsty – who married Max Branning last summer – Jo may well be in need of a break!

The storyline has of course dominated the soap’s plotlines for weeks now, and earlier this week, we saw Tanya telling Max it was over between when he confessed that he still has feelings for Kirsty… Read more & comment »

As fans of EastEnders will know, Tanya Branning is rapidly reaching the end of her tether with Kirsty Branning’s continued presence on the Square. Kirsty of course turned up on Christmas Day and announced that she and Max are married.

And next week, Tanya (Jo Joyner) will present Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) with divorce papers that she’ll demand Kirsty her love rival signs, and though initially Kirsty point blank refuses, after realizing that she’s facing defeat in her bid to win Max back, she’ll hand him the signed documents as she tells him that she’s leaving Walford.

However, in an interview with Inside Soap magazine, Jake Wood – who of course plays Max – has revealed that when his character decides to be brutally honest with Tanya about his relationship with Kirsty, she’s set to realize that he still has some feelings for his wife… Read more & comment »

Fans of EastEnders will know that Tanya Branning is having to put up with having a glamorous cuckoo in her nest in the form of Max’s wife Kirsty, however, in next week’s episodes, things are going to take a surprising turn…

That turn being that Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) apparently admits defeat and vows to leave Walford. And not only that, she signs the divorce papers that Tanya (Jo Joyner) had drawn up – having previously scrawled the word ‘NEVER’ across the document in red lippy – and hands them to a befuddled Max (Jake Wood).

But surely it can’t be that easy? Read more & comment »

We all watched with mouths open during last night’s Christmas Day EastEnders as Max Branning’s secret wife, Kirsty, turned up to stop his wedding to ex-wife, Tanya, in one of the best kept secret reveals the show has ever seen.

Now that the secret, which Jake Wood who plays Max admits he had to sign a secrecy contract promising to keep for the last year, is out the actress who plays Kirsty, Kierston Wareing, has spoken out about her new, high profile role.

Ever since Max has returned following the revelation last year that his ex-wife, Tanya, had cervical cancer, we knew he had been hiding something.
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It’s the question that every EastEnders fan has been dying to know since Max Branning returned to our screens earlier this year, but Jake Wood, who plays him, swears he won’t be telling anyone his characters secret – not even his wife!

Fans of the hit BBC1 soap have seen a desperate Max turn to bully- brother Derek (Jamie Foreman) to help pay off an unknown source regularly, with no word of what the money was for, or who it was going to.

This week saw a dramatic increase of pressure in the situation as Derek ended up getting brutally attacked when Max could not make the payment due to the cost of his up-coming wedding to ex-wife, Tanya (Jo Joyner).
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As fans of EastEnders are sure to know, Max Branning’s big secret is set to be revealed during the show’s Christmas Day episode…

And in today’s TV Biz, Jake Wood, who of course plays Max, has been talking about having to keep mum about what the big secret is, as well as how it will impact the Branning family, who are of course set to lose one of their number, Derek (Jamie Foreman), on Christmas Day.

Jake began by explaining that he’s known what Max’s secret is for over a year, and he wasn’t even allowed to tell his wife what it is!

He said, “I signed a contract saying I wouldn’t reveal Max’s secret to anyone. We’ll all sit down together and watch it on Christmas Day.

“I’ve known about this storyline for a year… Read more & comment »

The Branning family are in for a dramatic Christmas, what with deep dark secrets being revealed, and the death of Branning brother Derek…

However, on the flip side, Tanya Branning gets good news next week when her latest MRI scan comes back giving her a clean bill of health, and of course, there’s her wedding to Max on Christmas Eve to look forward to.

And in today’s Sun TV magazine, Jake Wood and Jo Joyner, who of course play Max and Tanya, have been talking about their characters’ dramatic Christmas and they also discussed the ever so long running Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) affair plotline, which of course will see one of the Branning me being unmasked at Kat’s lover in the episode that airs on December 20th.

However, speaking first about the big secret that Max and Derek (Jamie Foreman) have been harbouring – but which Derek is going to make public knowledge on Christmas Day – Jake said, “I got very excited when I read the scripts!” Read more & comment »