SHOCKING TRUTH REVEALED!! EastEnders’ Honey finally discovers shocking identity secret in early iPlayer release

EastEnders villain Bea Pollard has finally been found out, as Honey Mitchell discovers that her lodger is the one who has secretly taken out a credit card in her name.

Tonight’s episode (11 May) began with Ian Beale celebrating his win at the Walford East local elections, with Bea filming a social media video with him.

Honey then ran up and asked if he could do something about the identity theft, while Bea tried to play dumb, stating that she didn’t even know that Honey’s real name is Susan.

In the café, an excited Bea showed Ian the newspaper article about their election win, but he was too busy to give her any attention.

At Honey and Billy’s house, Bea bemoaned Ian for brushing her off to the couple. However, she found that Honey only wanted to know if Bea was finally going ahead with moving out now that the election was over.

Bea said she was hoping things had moved forward enough with Ian to move in with him, but her plans were scuppered after he actually read the paper and saw that the article had referred to him and Bea as “Mr and Mrs Beale”. Ian’s actual love interest, Elaine Peacock, had also seen this.

Ian popped round to see Bea, who admitted to buying him some followers to increase his popularity in the election campaign and reasoned that’s what made them a good couple. In response, he told her that he didn’t have feelings for her, in no uncertain terms.

“There is no us, OK? You’re nuts,” he told her, incredibly harshly. “You’re living in cloud-cuckoo-land. You’re a deluded, needy fantasist who is just trying to live their life through other people.”

A furious Bea grabbed him and strong-armed him out of the house, shouting at him that she was too good for him.

Back at Ian’s house, he looked through his boxes of election material and saw invoices using Honey’s real name. He stormed straight back over to Honey’s house, where Bea was spinning a yarn about how Ian was “using” her, and showed Honey the documents.

“She’s the one who’s stolen your identity,” he told her as the episode ended.

Could this be the end of Bea’s scheming? According to Ronni Ancona, it’s actually set to be quite the opposite.

Honey worries that her identity may have been stolen. She tries to convince Bea to move out and is relieved when her friend claims she could be moving in with Ian. However, when a local newspaper article wrongly names Ian and Bea as husband and wife, Ian decides to end their relationship.

Shortly afterwards, Ian discovers that Bea paid for votes in the election by using a fraudulent credit card she opened in Honey’s name. He heads straight to No.18 to confront Bea in front of Honey.

Meanwhile, it’s the day of Ivy’s Ghanaian naming ceremony, but the occasion could be overshadowed when Nicola warns George that Eddie is moving in. Nicola keeps quiet about Eddie’s money, but manages to convince George to let his father move into the basement flat.

Elsewhere, Patrick returns and warns Jasmine that it’ll take some time before he trusts her.

Also today, Grant plays peacemaker between Linda and Johnny, while Ian forgets about Kathy’s birthday.

Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton) has quit her job on the Bridge Street Market – and a new job offer has being handed straight to her.

Earlier this week, she excitedly told Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth) that her boss, chief market inspector Mr Lister (Nick Wilton) was retiring after many years overseeing the traders, and she was eyeing up his position.

He’d basically promised that she’d be his successor, and Honey was thrilled at the prospect of becoming top dog.

However, in today’s episode, Lister dropped a huge bombshell during their meeting.

Who is Mr Lister in EastEnders?

Mr Lister – who has appeared in 61 episodes across several stints since 2008 – is often seen ensuring the locals have a market license, disciplining the traders and being a general nuisance.

He famously clashed with Bianca Jackson (Patsy Palmer) on a number of occasions, and more recently, developed somewhat of an inappropriate affection for Honey.

Over lunch, he asked if she was single, before asking her to consider whether the love of her life was closer than she imagined.

He even said she could drop the formalities and start calling him Bob!

At the time, she’d just split up from Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick), and he tried to suggest that she’d be better off with an older man. Luckily, Finlay Baker (Ashley Byam) came to her rescue, stepping in to announce that they were a couple.

Last year, amid Junior Knight’s (Micah Balfour) plans to redevelop the market, he announced his intentions to retire. He wouldn’t even support the residents campaign to save the institution.

Has Honey Mitchell replaced Mr Lister?

Honey was preparing for a meeting with Lister when she bumped into Zack Hudson (James Farrar) in the Minute Mart.

He was intrigued to hear that the inspector was moving on, and that Honey’s job would be on the market (see what I did there?)

In the cafe, Mr Lister brushed around the subject, only for Honey to ask him outright when he was retiring.

Lister explained that he isn’t in a position to retire – if ever – because a family member named Keith has invested his money.

His advice was to never trust a man named Keith. Noted.

Honey was beyond miffed, and while ranting to husband Billy (Perry Fenwick), expressed concern that the reason she hasn’t been eyed up as a replacement is because she’s a woman.

Mr Lister arrived and said he’d promised his job to someone from the rival Canal Street Market, when or if that might be.

Enraged, Honey then quit her job on the spot, with Vinny Panesar (Shiv Jalota) swooping in to ask when she can start working at the shop. He even threw in an extra £2 per hour, and agreed she could have a week off before she started.