Karen Taylor needs a job!

EastEnders - Karen Mick Shirley
(Image credit: BBC / Jack Barnes)

Karen Taylor does her best to find work in the Square and not wind up potential employers!

Karen is desperate for a job but when she tries the Minute Mart and the Vic, she’s told there’s nothing going. After she also has no luck in Beale’s – and clashes with Ian – she ends up helping Jane in the Square.

After a run-in with Bernadette, who Karen catches skiving school, Karen takes Jane home and vents about her problems. When Ian arrives home, Karen’s shocked to discover he’s Jane’s husband. Using the situation to her advantage, she gets a cleaning job at Beale’s. Later, Karen makes a shock discovery about Bernadette...

Abi sidles up to Steven, who is quick to remind her that what happened between them meant nothing to him. After finding out that Steven’s stalking Lauren’s phone, Abi tells him that she’d be a better girlfriend for him than Lauren. Ignoring Abi, Steven gets an idea for another way to keep tabs on Lauren – by setting up a spy-cam in her office.

Meanwhile, Robbie is having a hard time getting on with the market traders and he’s down when he later learns he can’t move in with Dot. Over at Jack’s house, Ingrid the nanny arrives for her first day looking after Ricky and Amy, while in the Vic, Fi continues to make her mark.

Rachel Lucas
Forward Planning Deputy Manager

Rachel is a soaps and TV writer for WhatToWatch.com, soaps podcaster and resident soap expert for UK TV listings magazines What's On TV and TV Times. After graduating with an art and design degree from Birmingham City University, she found her true calling in all things soap and has been writing about them for magazines and websites for over 20 years. A self-confessed soap addict, she's always had a great love of all the UK and Aussie soaps and owns everything from a Neighbours 1990 Annual to a DVD box set of classic Corrie episodes to prove it.