{"id":3714,"date":"2021-08-31T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1323650"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:39:35","slug":"6-eastenders-spoilers-for-next-week-janine-returns-and-a-fire-breaks-out-in-the-square","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/6-eastenders-spoilers-for-next-week-janine-returns-and-a-fire-breaks-out-in-the-square\/","title":{"rendered":"6 EastEnders spoilers for next week: Janine returns and a fire breaks out in the Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruby plots revenge on Jean and Shirley attacks Phil. <\/p>

By Johnathon Hughes\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks) returns to Walford for the first time since 2014, ready to fight Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) for custody of her daughter. But what has the bad girl been up to since we last saw her?<\/p>\n

Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) attacks Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), Ruby Allen (Louisa Lytton) turns the tables on Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) and a fire breaks out in the Square.<\/p>\n

Here are all your\u00a0EastEnders<\/a>\u00a0spoilers for\u00a023rd \u2013 27th August 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Janine\u2019s big return<\/h2>\n
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Kat finally tells Tommy Moon (Sonny Kendall) that Scarlett isn\u2019t his cousin, she\u2019s his sister, explaining they both have the same dad, Alfie\u2019s cousin Michael Moon \u2013 murdered in cold blood by Janine. This makes Tommy even more eager to help Scarlett so Kat relents and tells social services she\u2019ll become the abandoned girl\u2019s carer, as she\u2019s better off without her mean mum.<\/p>\n

Janine then makes a suitably grand entrance at her daughter\u2019s court hearing where she gives an Oscar-worthy performance, insisting she\u2019s redeemed herself and is ready to be a proper parent to her little girl. Unfortunately it doesn\u2019t wash with the authorities and the Butcher bitch marches into the Vic later that day for a showdown with Kat, who vows to do everything she can to keep Scarlett away from her murdering mother!<\/p>

Scarlett goes missing<\/h2>\n
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Realising her confrontational approach isn\u2019t getting her anywhere, Janine calms down and tries to appeal to Kat mum to mum, hoping it grants her a second chance with Scarlett. By this time it\u2019s clear sly Janine\u2019s up to her old tricks and Kat tells her to get lost, only for social services to then report Scarlett has gone missing.<\/p>\n

Suspicion immediately falls on Janine but it appears she\u2019s telling the truth when she swears she had nothing to do with her disappearance. She and Kat form an uneasy alliance to search for her, and Janine reckons she knows exactly where her daughter is hiding out\u2026<\/p>\n

Fire horror<\/h2>\n
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Meanwhile, Shirley is fuming with Phil for refusing to tell the police the truth about Ian\u2019s attack, thus preventing Tina from coming home. The fact Tina\u2019s been dead since Christmas is a bigger obstacle to her returning, but Shirl still thinks her sister\u2019s laying low thanks to Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith) and his lies he\u2019s seen Teen and she\u2019s desperate for money \u2013 which he\u2019s happy to scam from the Carter matriarch, pretending she\u2019s helping out her sibling while he pockets the dosh.<\/p>\n

Manipulative Gray fuels Shirley\u2019s hatred of Mr Mitchell and she ends up storming over to his place to have it out, culminating with her whacking him out cold with a baseball bat then fleeing in a panic. At this point, Janine shows up having correctly guessed Tommy has been hiding Scarlett, and is shocked to see Phil unconscious on the floor. As Janine tries to get away with Scarlett there\u2019s a tussle \u2013 and a fire starts in the Mitchell kitchen. Well, we were promised Janine\u2019s comeback would be explosive\u2026<\/p>\n

Jean confesses to Martin?<\/h2>\n
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Jean is back from her hols and quick to clock that Ruby hasn\u2019t come clean to Martin Fowler (James Bye) that she lied to put Stacey behind bars, so will she be true to her word and tell her former son-in-law the truth? Turns out she\u2019s got more to worry about when the marijuana Big Mo left in the garage now resembles a garden centre \u2013 what\u2019s Jean going to do with a drugs den she didn\u2019t want?!<\/p>\n

Begging best mate Shirley for help, Jean comes up with a plan to deal with her plantation problem. By this time Ruby can smell something\u2019s awry and that Jean is hiding something \u2013 quite literally as the stench from her garage is getting pretty strong. When Lily Slater (Lillia Turner) is caught with weed at school, Rubes reckons she\u2019s got leverage to stop Jean blabbing to Martin. Will Ruby play dirty to keep herself in the clear?<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on EastEnders<\/h2>\n
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