EastEnders' Vinny to face new cheating scandal – but there's a big twist

EastEnders’ Gina Knight leaps to a huge conclusion next week, and tells Penny Branning that her boyfriend Vinny Panesar is having an affair!

When Gina spots Vinny engaging in some suspicious behaviour, she immediately spills the beans to Penny, and they decide to investigate what he’s up to. They track him down to Knight Fusion, and are shocked to find him having a cosy chat with another woman…

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"The delicious irony is that Vinny is totally innocent, and it’s Penny who’s withholding the secret that could blow their world apart," says our Walford insider.

"Gina believes he’s cheating, and when she sees him meeting with a mystery woman, she marches over and throws a drink over him. The commotion almost derails what’s actually going on, and the subsequent lie leads Vinny to seriously reassess his future."

The woman Vinny’s meeting is actually an investor, who he is trying to bring on board with the business. Penny is mortified when she realises that she and Gina have it so wrong, so when the investor wrongly assumes she and Vinny are engaged, she goes with it.

Penny is feeling pretty rotten about doubting Vinny’s fidelity, especially as she secretly knows her baby son Ethan could be Harry’s biological child!

Worse still, she hasn’t let Gina know that she and Harry slept together around the time of Ethan’s conception, and feels dreadful about lying to her best mate.

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"In a way, if Vinny had been doing her wrong, Penny might have felt less terrible about her own secrets and lies," reckons our snoop.

"Instead, she’s forced to tell another lie to get them out of this particular scrape. The problem is that once they pretend to be engaged, the news spreads fast – and soon their nearest and dearest are very excited about the impending wedding!"

As Penny despairs about the misunderstanding and the couple are forced to come clean to their disappointed relatives, Vinny has a realisation. He’s never been happier and wants to take his relationship with the mother of his little boy to the next level.

But as Vinny dreams of proposing to Penny for real, he has no idea that the woman he wants to spend his life with has been lying to him for months…

EastEnders airs on Mondays - Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast.

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