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EastEnders’ Christmas affair echoes soap’s biggest scandal | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV [Video]

EastEnders is preparing for another dramatic Christmas Day, with Cindy Beale (played by Michelle Collins) at the heart of the action.

Regular watchers of the BBC soap will know that Cindy has been secretly involved with her ex-stepson, Junior Knight (Micah Balfour), and their secret is about to be dramatically exposed.

However, fans have spotted a similarity to a classic episode.

The latest teaser indicates that the holiday spirit in Walford will be short-lived when George Knight’s (Colin Salmon) Christmas lunch spirals into chaos as incriminating evidence of Cindy’s affair lands in the wrong hands.

Cindy isn’t exactly a favourite among her Albert Square neighbours, but who could be blackmailing her?

Anna Knight (Molly Rainford) opens a small present to discover a USB stick. When it’s played, Cindy’s secret is shockingly revealed to the Beale family, reports MyLondon.

This plot twist has led EastEndersfans to draw parallels to the notorious ‘Sharongate’ storyline, where Sharon …

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Milwaukee public defender accused of paying clients for sex [Video]

THE PUSH ALERTS TO HELP YOU PLAN AHEAD. NOW TO THE INVESTIGATION INVOLVING A MILWAUKEE PUBLIC DEFENDER RECENTLY CHARGED IN A PROSTITUTION RING FOR THE FIRST TIME, 12 NEWS HAS ACCESS TO HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF NEWLY UNSEALED SEARCH WARRANTS IN THE CASE AGAINST TRAVIS SCHWARTZ, NEW RECORDS SHOW HE MAY HAVE PAID AT LEAST THREE CLIENTS WOMEN HE REPRESENTED FOR SEX 12 NEWS KENDALL KEYS. WITH THAT STORY. TRAVIS SCHWARTZ, ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER IN MILWAUKEE FOR HIS WORK IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEX CASES. BUT NOW ITS THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT HUMAN TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE THATS INVESTIGATING HIM. LAST MONTH, PROSECUTORS CHARGED SCHWARTZ IN A SWEEPING PROSTITUTION RING OF A NEAR WEST SIDE APARTMENT BUILDING. AND NOW IN A SERIES OF NEWLY UNSEALED SEARCH WARRANTS. DETECTIVES SAY IT APPEARS SCHWARTZ PAID AT LEAST THREE OF HIS OWN CLIENTS FOR SEX. COURT RECORDS SHOW DETECTIVES SCOURED SCHWARTZS PHONE FINDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PHOTOS AND SAY SCHWARTZ REPRESENTED SEVERAL OF THE WOMEN IN CRIMINAL CASES AS THEIR PUBLIC DEFENDER. ALSO IN HIS PHONE, A TRAIL OF VENMO AND PAYPAL TRANSACTIONS TO THOSE WOMEN, PAYMENT DESCRIPTIONS LIKE JOY, JUST US AND JUSTICE, RANGING FROM $20 TO $1500, ONE WOMAN TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT MOST OF THE TIME THEY TALKED ABOUT HER CASES WAS AT MIDNIGHT. WHILE BOTH WERE LYING IN BED. INVESTIGATORS SAY SCHWARTZ INVITED A KEY WITNESS IN A HOMICIDE TRIAL TO CULVERS FOR LUNCH TO DISCUSS HER CASE, AND THEN THE NEXT MONTH, SCHWARTZ RENTED A ROOM AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL, WHERE INVESTIGATORS SAY HE PAID HER FOR SEX. THE COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW. SCHWARTZ KNEW SHE WAS A SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM. SCHWARTZS ATTORNEY TELLS ME HE DOES NOT HAVE A COMMENT AT THIS TIME. NOW, THERE ARENT ANY NEW CHARGES TONIGHT. RIGHT NOW, HE FACES TWO FELONY CHARGES FOR SOLICITING PROSTITUTES AND MAKING FALSE REPRESENTATION TO QUALIFY FOR ASSIGNMENT OF COUNSEL. IN THE NEWSROOM, KENDALL KEYS WISN 12 NEWS. WISCONSINS RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT FOR ATTORNEYS PROHIBITS LAWYERS FROM HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLIENTS, UNLESS THAT RELATIONSHIP EXISTED BEFORE THE LEGAL REPRESENTATION. FIVE OTHER MEN ARE CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR SOLICITATION IN THIS INVESTIGATION. THEY ARE A RETIRED JUDGE, A FIREFIGHTER, A FUNERAL HOME DIRECTOR, AND AN INVESTMENT BANKER, AND A FORMER ATTORNEY ALL FACE UP TO NINE MONTHS IN PRISON AND A MAXIMUM FINE OF $10,000. THEY ARE SCHEDULED T