EastEnders spoilers follow from the two Christmas Day episodes. EastEnders’ Christmas Day episodes have become a tradition in households across the country, for both regular viewers and those who only watch the soap once a year.

Cindy Beale’s (Michelle Collins) life hangs in the balance in EastEnders after she was clobbered over the back of a skull with a snow shovel on Christmas Day. There is no shortage of suspects, with the deliciously evil matriarch having burned her bridges with just about everyone following the toe-curling exposure of her affair with Junior Knight (Micah Balfour).

Cindy Beale is feared dead in EastEnders after she was brutally attacked in a new whodunnit on the BBC soap, following her showdown with the Beales and the Knights