EastEnders’ Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) and Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) have been at each other’s throats for weeks now, with each of them conspiring on how best to get one over on their rival.

But next week, they are both outsmarted by none other than Oscar Branning (Pierre Counihan-Moullier) when he gets caught up in their high-camp feud.

Elaine and Ian have been bringing some light relief to proceedings in recent weeks, as Ian has taken umbrage with Elaine’s new ‘boutique hotel’ business that she owns with her daughter Linda Carter (Kellie Bright).

More recently, Ian decided to run as a candidate in the local council elections, making it known that, should he win, his first act would be to shutter Elaine’s beloved Peacock Palace.

Determined not to let Ian get another one over on her, Elaine vowed to run against him and launched her own bid for election.

In forthcoming scenes, Ian enlists Oscar in his ‘Councillor Beale’ campaign as it becomes clear to those close to the teenager that he is struggling in the wake of his ex-girlfriend Jasmine Fisher (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness) recent arrest for Anthony Trueman’s (Nicholas Bailey) murder.

However, it later emerges that Elaine has recruited Oscar as a double agent to lead a smear campaign against Ian.

As you can imagine, that doesn’t exactly go down well with Brian Ian when he rumbles the plan.

Upon realising that Oscar has played them both, Ian and Elaine sack him from their respective campaigns, but his double crossing certainly helps take his mind off his heartbreak.

If recent reports are to be believed, Oscar will soon have another reason to smile when Jasmine’s brother Josh arrives in Walford.

It’s been claimed that bisexual Oscar will find himself at the centre of a love triangle between the two siblings after setting eyes on Josh – played by soap newcomer Joshua Vaughan – in the coming weeks.

‘This is going to be one of the hottest love triangles the soap world has ever seen,’ a source recently told The Sun. ‘When