In next week’s episodes of EastEnders, Max Branning (Jake Wood) finally learns what we viewers have known for weeks – that his wife Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) has been lying to him about being pregnant!

But what will it mean for their romance?

The drama begins on Monday, June 24, as Max notices that the presence on the Square of her ex, Carl White (Daniel Coonan) seems to have Kirsty on edge… Read more & comment »

Fans of EastEnders will know that teenager Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa) has taken to boozing in secret now that her family and friends are worried that she might develop serious problems if she carries on binge drinking…

And of late, we’ve seen Tanya (Jo Joyner) ordering everyone at The Vic and the Minute Mart not to serve booze to Lauren, however, nonetheless, Lauren has continued drinking, which Max (Jake Wood) and Tanya are about to find out.

The drama begins when, in the episode that airs on Monday 3rd June, under pressure from Tanya, Lauren goes to see Lucy to apologise for her actions, however Lucy won’t listen and she sends Lauren packing… Read more & comment »

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 »

Kirsty Branning is of course currently very much preoccupied by trying to keep up her lie about being pregnant to her husband Max (Jake Wood) so the last thing she needs right now is her violent brother Adam pestering her…

However, in next week’s episodes, that’s exactly what he does as he bombards her with phone calls, which doesn’t go unnoticed by Max. And of course, the last time he met with Adam, he got a beating for his troubles, so understandably, he doesn’t want him in their lives again.

So in the episode that airs on Thursday, May 23, just as Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) has finally plucked up the courage to admit to Max that she’s not pregnant, they’re interrupted by yet more calls from Adam… 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 »

Fans of EastEnders will know that treacherous Max Branning (Jake Wood) is currently living with his wife Kirsty, who’s told him she’s pregnant…

Max wants her to get an abortion, and though he hasn’t told her why, it’s because he still has hopes of getting back with his ex-wife Tanya (Jo Joyner) who of course, he’s still in love with.

However, when Tanya finally confronts Max, telling him that she knows about the baby, she hits the nail on the head when she says she knows he’s been trying to keep his options open by being with Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) while waiting to see if she, Tanya, softens and takes him back… Read more & comment »

Next week’s episodes of EastEnders will see Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing) devastated when husband Max (Jake Wood) makes it clear to her that he doesn’t want anyone to know that she’s pregnant…

But there’s much worse to come when Max tells Kirsty that he wants her to abort their baby!

The drama begins when, at Sharon Rickman’s (Letitia Dean) hen night, the champagne is flowing freely and Max’s daughter Lauren (Jacqueline Jossa) pours a glass for Kirsty, which Max then snatches away… Read more & comment »

We reported recently that Max Branning (Jake Wood) was to be in for a big shock when his wife Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) informs him that she’s pregnant…

And of course, given that Max secretly wants his ex-wife Tanya (Jo Joyner) back, the baby news brings him no joy whatsoever!

However, Kirsty – who formerly aborted Max’s baby when he left her to go back to Tanya last year – is delighted, and as the couple are about to put a deposit on a flat in the Square, she can’t wait to play happy families with Max and her new baby.

But Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) is going to scupper the plan for the flat! 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 »

As ever in EastEnders, there’s familial and romantic strife ahead, and next week it’s headed Tanya Branning’s way when she returns to Walford unexpectedly…

However, poor Tanya’s set to get a shock when she walks into No5 and sees her daughters Abi and Lauren having dinner – and evidently having a laugh – with their dad Max (Jake Wood) and his wife, Kirsty!

As fans will know, Tanya (Jo Joyner) left the Square for some time out a couple of weeks ago, and in the interim, Max tracked Kirsty (Kierston Wareing) down and brought her back to Walford. 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 »

In the episode of EastEnders that will air on Monday, February 4th, we’ll see that Max Branning (Jake Wood) is back on the Square and still suffering the effects of the beating he received at the hands of Kirsty’s brother, Adam…

However, when Lauren (Jacqueline Jossa) spots her dad on the Square, she’ll call out to him, and despite having heard her, Max will rush off, leaving Lauren puzzled as to why her father’s avoiding her.

But the answer to that question will become apparent when she tells her sister Abi (Lorna Fitzgerald) about Max being back, and she promptly tracks him down to the B&B… Read more & comment »