EastEnders fans ‘rumble’ who will ‘blackmail’ Vicki and they’re very close to home

Vicki Fowler might be blackmailed(Image: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

EastEnders’ Vicki Fowler has not only passionately kissed her sister’s brother Zack Hudson, but has been caught – the question is, by whom? In a dramatic twist at the end of Monday’s episode (13 April) of EastEnders, a mystery figure snapped a pic of Vicki and Zack kissing in an alleyway, and fans think this person will blackmail the pair. They also think this person is very close to home for Vicki…

During the episode, Vicki (Alice Haig) was trying to enjoy her hen do when Zack (James Farrar) turned up as the stripper. He and Vicki got close at the hen do. Noticing this, Vicki’s friend and sort of aunt Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) pulled the fire alarm to stop them from getting even closer.

But she just made things worse, as once alone in an alleyway, Vicki and Zack started kissing. The episode ended with a mystery figure holding a phone with a picture of the two kissing on it.

A mystery figure took a photo of Vicki and Zack together(Image: BBC)

Fans immediately guessed that this person would start blackmailing Vicki and Zack. Theorising soon turned to who this person was. After a process of elimination, where they discounted Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) and Zack’s pal Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf), one person guessed it was Kathy, despite her love for Vicki.

They wrote online: “That ending! Obviously a whodunnit of who took the picture. The bit with Cindy’s a red herring IMO. She blackmailed Kathy and Harvey last year, so it’d be too obvious if they used her again for this.

“Also she’s got no issue with Vicki or Zack, and the colour of the coat sleeve looked different to hers. Zack just told Sam but she’s not gonna blackmail a mate. So that leaves Kathy.”

Another said they thought it was Sam, but more argued that it made more sense of it to be someone else. A third said: “Zack is one of her closest friends I do not think it’s her. I think either Kathy, Mark or Bea.”

Could Kathy be the blackmailer?(Image: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

A fourth added that they thought Kathy would do it because she loved Vicki: “To be fair, Kathy did whack Cindy with a snow shovel after everything Cindy had done, I wouldn’t be too surprised if she went a bit too far trying to stop Vicki from making a mistake or whatever.”

Another agreed: “Cindy was to obvious when she was walking pass the Vic cellar. But I could see Kathy because she definitely wants this affair to Stop hence why she press the Fire button.”

As Jane Beale (Laurie Brett) once said, “things could always get a little incestuous on Albert Square”. She was talking about her son Bobby Beale (Clay Milner Russell) dating his half brother’s half sister Anna Knight (Molly Rainford) but the same rings true for Vicki and Zack.

Vicki is the daughter of Den Watts (Leslie Grantham), who adopted Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean). Years later, Sharon went to the funeral of her biological father and found out that she had a brother – Zack. As such, Vicki’s sister and Zack’s sister are the same person.