Sadie discovers Jake's affair after EastEnders confrontation

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EastEnders' Jake Stone is in for a tough week when Max Branning mistakenly thinks he's got Lauren Branning pregnant.

The misunderstanding is over a positive pregnancy test that Carol Jackson (Lindsey Coulson) has found and Max (Jake Wood) becomes convinced it belongs to his daughter, Lauren (Jacqueline Jossa).

Lauren has been having an affair with married Jake (Jamie Lomas) after they met in rehab for their alcohol addictions, but when Max goes storming round to Jake's and tries to attack him over what he thinks is Lauren's pregnancy, he accidentally reveals the couple's secret to Jake's wife Sadie (Kate Magowan).

Even though Lauren insists she's not pregnant and the test wasn't hers, it leaves Jake with a big mess to sort out with Sadie.

But things are set to get worse when later in the week when Lauren goes to check on Jake and finds him drunk - he bundles her out into his car and tries to accelerate out of Albert Square, but hits a pushchair being wheeled by pregnant Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace).

Jake began drinking after he killed a child in a car accident years earlier, and viewers will be left wondering whether history has repeated itself.

The confrontation between Max and Jake is due to screen tonight on EastEnders.

 

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.