EastEnders has been hit by a huge scheduling shake-up as fans finally learn the truth about George Knight’s past this week.

In an epic two-night affair, viewers will finally learn the truth about George (Colin Salmon) and his ex-wife Rose and fans convinced they already have worked out her true identity. 

The BBC soap have teased the upcoming reveal with mysterious trailers with fans scouring through them in a bid to find clues.

And it seems some have come to the conclusion that Rose is actually the alter ego of former character Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) an identity she used after faking her own death. 

One teaser sees a red bloom in a vase at the Queen Vic with the words ‘Every Rose Has A Thorn….’.

Following the news that Michelle Collins would be reprising her role as the villainous and presumed dead Cindy, alongside Adam Woodyatt as her ex-husband Ian, rumours have been rife that Cindy and Rose were actually the same person.

And one soap fan spotted a detail in the latest trailer that links the characters in an unlikely way. 

They noted that if the letter ‘E’ was taken from Rose and added to Thorn, the two words would then spell ‘Ros Thorne’.

Ros appeared in the show between 1997-1998 as a private detective hired by Ian to track down his wife and sons Peter and Steven, after she fled the country after paying a hit man to try and kill him.  

The investigator, played by Scottish actress Clare Grogan, tracked Cindy down in Italy and helped Ian take his sons back to Walford.

Cindy eventually returned to the UK before being jailed for attempted murder and later died in prison during child birth.

Taking to the comment section another fan wrote about the theory: ‘Omg you’re a genius!’. 

While a second said: ‘ I mean that’s very clever if it’s intentional’.

Someone else wrote: ‘Good spot. Maybe [Ros] was in on it?’. 

And a fourth said: ‘Omg this is so clever if this is true!!’ 

EastEnders typically releases each day’s episode at 6am on BBC iPlayer before they are broadcast that evening for busy fans to plan their daily soap fix.

However, these two episodes will be aired simultaneously at 7:30pm on BBC One and iPlayer, so that all of the fans can watch the dramatic truth unfold.

Linda Carter has been determined to find out the truth about George’s past after fearing he’s using her mother Elaine to gain control of the Queen Vic. 

She’s enlisted Phil Mitchell’s help, and he convinces Callum Highway to search the police database for information about George.

While Callum confirms that George’s record is clean, he’s concerned that he couldn’t find any information about his ex-wife Rose, and Phil confronts him.

Actor Colin Salmon previously addressed the mystery surrounding George’s past, which will finally be revealed in the upcoming episodes.

He said: ‘Conflict is drama, and drama is our business. It’s complex! Life is complex, and there are so many things that can send people off on the wrong trajectory. 

‘I love the idea of exploring that in drama because the catalyst doesn’t have to be some huge thing.

‘It can just be a misunderstanding. It’s more real like that. Being misunderstood is a nightmare for a straight shooter like George.’

EastEnders airs the truth about George’s past on Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30pm on BBC One and iPlayer. 

Saturday Night Live personality Bowen Yang has shared a story about Succession star Jeremy Strong and his famous commitment to staying in character. 

The Brisbane, Australia-born entertainer, 32, opened up about seeing the 44-year-old actor, who plays Kendall Roy on the HBO hit, as he walked onto the set of the series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, remaining in character as the morose billionaire media heir.

The Saturday Night Live personality spoke about the encounter on his podcast Las Culturistas Wednesday, saying that Strong wandered onto the set of the show and into its production office, asking for directions to the restroom.

‘The most recent season of Nora From Queens shot at the same studio as this season of Succession,’ Yang, who plays the role of Edmund on the comedy. ‘The Nora From Queens production office was pretty close to the Succession stages and their production office, and as we famously know, Jeremy Strong is a Method actor.’

Yang said ‘at one point,’ Strong made his way into the office ‘and says, “Excuse me, do you know where the bathroom is?”

‘And then someone in the office is like, “Yeah, it’s just down the hall to the left.” He goes, “Thank you so much” and he leaves.’

Yang said that Strong subsequently left and 10 minutes later, a Succession production assistant entered the office and asked about the actor’s whereabouts.

The PA ‘goes, “Hi, was Jeremy just in here?”‘ Yang said. ‘And they were like, “Yeah he was – he went to the bathroom” and then this PA goes, “Did he ask where it was? Did he come here to ask you where the bathroom was?”

‘They were like, “Yeah, why?” and the PA says, “He has a scene today where he has to ask someone where the bathroom is.”‘

Yang said of the actor’s commitment to his roles: ‘I think that is Method to such a ridiculous degree that he must be in on the joke,’ adding that he subscribes to ‘the idea that Jeremy Strong has a sense of play and irony.’

Strong’s hyperfocused commitment to his craft has been well documented amid his success on the HBO drama the past five years.

In a key scene in the first season of Succession – in which his character is involved in a late night car wreck, in which the vehicle he was in careened into a lake – he had assistants drench him with ice water to amplify the reality of the morose situation.

The show’s executive producer/director Mark Mylod told IndieWire in 2018 that Strong had ice water bucked dumped atop his head during the already-grueling shoot.

‘I guess the great thing about a physical obstacle is that what you really have to do is put yourself in that situation, in those given circumstances, and then deal,’ Strong told the outlet.

The actor, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2020, continued: ‘So I had to get in a lake that was close to freezing cold temperatures in the middle of the winter and it is horrible as it would be.

‘Those things in a sense actually are easier than the, for lack of a better word, emotional work.’

He described the physical impact of the routine, saying, ‘Your head is burning and your limbs are numb, so you don’t have to act that basically.

‘That was very scary, just letting the air run out in my own lungs to the point where I felt just enough in jeopardy and in danger so that I was really in the situation and then trying to extract myself from it.’

Strong’s focus to his craft has occasionally garnered scrutiny from his costars on the HBO hit from creator Jesse Armstrong.

Brian Cox, who plays the role of media magnate Logan Roy on the series, dubbed Strong’s techniques as ‘f***ing annoying’ while speaking with Town & Country this past February.

‘Don’t get me going on it,’ Cox said, adding of the craft, ‘It’s just there and is accessible. It’s not a big f***ing religious experience.’

Cox made clear that he feels Strong has top notch acting skills, and doesn’t need to put himself through the ringer to achieve onscreen authenticity.

‘He’s still that guy, because he feels if he went somewhere else he’d lose it. But he won’t!’ Cox said. ‘Strong is talented. He’s f***ing gifted. When you’ve got the gift, celebrate the gift. Go back to your trailer and have a hit of marijuana, you know?’

In a publicized piece from The New Yorker that was published in December of 2021, Cox said he was concerned about how Strong’s dedication impacted him personally.

‘I just worry about what he does to himself,’ Cox said. ‘I worry about the crises he puts himself through in order to prepare.’

In the piece, Kieran Culkin said of Strong, who plays his older brother on the show: ‘It’s hard for me to actually describe his process, because I don’t really see it. He puts himself in a bubble.

‘The way Jeremy put it to me is that, like, you get in the ring, you do the scene, and at the end each actor goes to their corner. I’m like, “This isn’t a battle. This is a dance.”‘

Culkin, who has been feted for his portrayal of Roman Roy on the series, added, ‘That might be something that helps him. I can tell you that it doesn’t help me.’

The series finale of Succession airs Sunday on HBO/Max.