Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) has turned green with envy in EastEnders – and seemingly made a new enemy.

The enemy is, of course, Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington), who has shacked up with Cindy’s ex-husband George Knight (Colin Salmon) over the last week.

A potential new relationship is on the horizon for the former pub landlord in the wake of his separation from his current wife Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe).

Nicola was holding interviews for a new bar manager at the nightclub, and in a bid to distract George from the drug dealing at Kojo Asare’s (Dayo Koleosho) apartment, Harry Mitchell (Elijah Holloway) convinced his mum to bring him in.

Upon arrival at Harry’s Barn, he discovered that Nic’ was actually searching for a bouncer, something which George wasn’t interested in.

She knew that she had to buy time, and after offering him a drink and having a heart to heart about recent events, seduced him!

The two agreed to keep things strictly professional, but that clearly hasn’t happened.

In tonight’s episode, he strolled down Turpin Road singing Boney M’s Daddy Cool, apparently a tune he’d sing when he’d done the dirty with Elaine and Cindy.

The women, who have formed a surprising new work relationship, clocked his humming and unusually cheery persona and made it their mission to work out who he was seeing.

Elaine spoke with him in the pub, giving her blessing for him to move on – even if it did make her deeply uncomfortable. Cindy then arrived and saw red, noticing George cosying up to Nicola.

A war of words broke out, and it became clear that Cindy was jealous to see another woman on George’s arm.

Is this his final chance at happiness, or are Cindy and Elaine about to put a stop to that?

What happened between George and Elaine?

The two separated earlier this year, when she believed he’d been unfaithful at Christmas with his first wife Sabrina. His son Junior (Micah Balfour) dropped the revelation out of the blue, with no real motive to expose his father other than wanting Elaine to know what he’d done.

She was enraged to hear that Sabrina had tried to kiss him, and George didn’t exactly make things better when he turned to Cindy for a shoulder to cry on.

Elaine contacted old mate Drew Peacock (Paul Clayton) for a pep talk, and when he told her to take consideration of her own self-worth, she made the brutal decision to sleep with a stranger she’d just met moments before.

Guilt-ridden, she couldn’t keep quiet any longer and confessed all to George. His attempts at making amends and apologising fell flat, as she wasn’t willing to take half of the blame.

In the aftermath, his world has dropped apart.

What’s Cindy’s history with George?

Cindy – living in witness protection and using the name Rose – met George in Spain and they had daughters Gina (Francesca Henry) and Anna (Molly Rainford) together.

She walked out on their plush life to revisit Walford in 2014, where she watched her family from afar, grieving the death of first-born daughter Lucy (Hetti Bywater).

After compromising her cover, she was forced never to see George, Gina or Anna again. It was then that he moved on with Elaine, before arriving in Albert Square in 2023.

Cindy subsequently returned herself, now being told that there was no threat towards her.

During the last two years she’s been adamant to win back George’s affections, and while the two did kiss, she turned her attention to his son Junior instead.