Max cottons on to Charlie's true story! EastEnders spoilers (VIDEO)

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Charlie Cotton's feeling the heat when Summerhayes informs Max that he's no copper in EastEnders next week.

Earlier, Charlie realises Max's intimate connection with the detective, but when he tries to use the information it backfires on him and Emma moves to arrest him for impersonating a police officer!

Worse is to come when it becomes clear his dad, nasty Nick Cotton, is back in the area and tracking him down...

Watch the scoop on this and Ian's continuing attempt to keep Patrick quiet in EastEnders, above.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.