{"id":36243,"date":"2023-08-28T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1879978"},"modified":"2023-08-28T22:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:06:20","slug":"eastenders-addresses-major-character-absence-amid-cindy-beale-return","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/eastenders-addresses-major-character-absence-amid-cindy-beale-return\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders addresses major character absence amid Cindy Beale return"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Cindy Beale’s children could return into her life… <\/p>

By Lewis Knight\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 28 August 2023 at 05:15 AM<\/p>

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Spoiler warning for EastEnders episode on Monday 28th August 2023, which is now available on BBC iPlayer.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Cindy Beale discussed her absent daughter Cindy Williams Jr. in EastEnders<\/a> on Monday (28th August 2023).<\/p>\n

The BBC One soap has begun an epic week of episodes detailing the \u2018resurrected\u2019 Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) returning to Walford after 25 years since her exit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Monday night\u2019s episode, Cindy returned to Walford and had an explosive reunion with her former mother-in-law and nemesis Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth).<\/p>\n

After a war of words, the conflict between the two women turned physical as slaps were exchanged, but it was the smashing of the portrait of the murdered Lucy Beale (last played by Hetti Bywater) that brought the pair to calm down.<\/p>\n

The conversation turned to the pair missing out on Lucy\u2019s final days before Cindy asked Kathy about another missing family member: Cindy Williams Jr.<\/p>

Cindy Beale revealed that she had not had any contact with her second-born daughter, having only seen her after giving birth to her as a child, but remembered her \u201cperfect\u201d face. There was also a comment about Peter Beale<\/a> (Thomas Law<\/a>) not being on good terms with his half-sister, Cindy Jr.<\/p>\n

Kathy explained that she sent Christmas cards to Cindy Jr. but she knows from Ricky Butcher (Sid Owen) that she is living happily in Germany.<\/p>\n

So, Cindy Jr. has no idea that her namesake mother is alive.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering who Cindy Williams Jr. is, let RadioTimes.com<\/a> remind you\u2026<\/p>\n

Who is Cindy Williams Jr. in EastEnders?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Cindy Williams Jr. is the daughter of Cindy Beale and Nick Holland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When Cindy appeared to die in prison off-screen in 1998, it had supposedly been in childbirth as she delivered her baby daughter that she had conceived with her former partner Nick Holland (Dominic Taylor), the man who had abandoned her to her fate in prison after she was convicted for conspiring to murder her ex-husband.<\/p>\n

After Cindy\u2019s \u2018death\u2019, that same ex-husband Ian Beale<\/a> (Adam Woodyatt) named the baby Cindy after her mother, being named Cindy Williams Jr.<\/p>\n

The infant went to live with Cindy\u2019s sister Gina Williams (Nicola Cowper) in Devon but came to live in Walford with her half-siblings Lucy and Peter Beale (then played by Ben Hardy) in 2013.<\/p>\n

What happened to Cindy Williams Jr. in EastEnders?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Mimi Keene as Cindy Williams Jr. in EastEnders<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

As a teenager, Cindy Jr. (Mimi Keene) was a troublesome youth, with insecurities drawn from the death of her mother \u2013 whose death she blamed on herself \u2013 and her lack of relationship with her half-siblings.<\/p>\n

Cindy went on to get pregnant by school friend TJ Spraggan (George Sargeant) but was uncertain about keeping the pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Having a fractious relationship with half-sister Lucy, Ian later sent Cindy back to live in Devon but she returned to Walford following her half-sister\u2019s murder to attend the funeral.<\/p>\n

Later, Cindy Jr returned to Walford full-time to give birth to her baby Beth Williams and moved back in with the Beales full-time, but decided she could not be a mother and considered letting Ian and his then-wife, Jane Beale (Laurie Brett), the latter of whom had never raised a baby.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Cindy Jr. struggled with Beth\u2019s presence and this increased after she learned that Ian\u2019s son Bobby Beale (then played by Eliot Carrington) had killed Lucy and his adopted mother Jane had covered it up \u2013 which prompted Peter to leave Walford.<\/p>\n