EASTENDERS fans were left utterly enraged by a ‘continuous blunder’ on the soap.

As hard as the soap actors try, there is one aspect of their job that has seriously gotten on the wrong side of BBC One viewers.

If the residents of Walford are not sinking back pints in the Vic, they are often seen drinking tea at Kathy’s Cafe … or are they?

EastEnders fans have claimed that when some characters are seen with a hot drink either at home or in the ‘caf’, they are in fact just taking in air from empty cups or mugs.

One recent scene saw Phil (Steve McFadden) making George Knight (Colin Salmon) a comforting cuppa in his kitchen.

However, the mugs which were meant to have hot drinks appeared to be completely clear of any drink.

Fans took to social media fan forum site Reddit in their droves where they fumed at the prop mishap in a thread titled ‘Empty Cups!’.

One fan wrote: “Dunno if anyone else here can not stand when the actors clearly give someone an empty cup pretending it’s a full cup of tea or in the cafe, an empty takeaway cup!

“Why can’t they just put an actual drink in it! It is one of my biggest pet peeves watching soaps.”

The soap enthusiast added: “Ben Wadey, sort it out please! ”

Other fans seemed to completely agree as they flooded the post with affirming comments.

An additional user noted: “The way they throw around their clearly empty cups like they’re so light and don’t need to worry about spillages drives me insane also.”

“Glad it’s not just me,” stated a third viewer.

As a fourth fan insisted: “It is indeed not just you. It’s so easily solved, too, it’s ridiculous that no one has done this basic stage prep. I’m hoping that changes now with the new regime.”

While someone else claimed: “Even just water in a cup would make it more believable.”

This was as a sixth exclaimed: “YES! It’s bothered me for so many years, just put some liquid in there! The fake drinking acting is always so obvious.”

Pointing one particular scene with former Celebrity Big Brother housemate Patsy Palmer, another watcher added: “The scene where Bianca was drinking tea when Reiss snuck back into the house anniversary week drove me mental.

“No disrespect to Patsy as she’s a top notch actor, but she was CLEARLY swallowing air and the mug completely empty while she was gingerly putting it down.”