EastEnders ‘confirms’ who finally unmasks Bea ahead of final showdown

Bea Pollard (Ronni Ancona) has finally reached her final evolutionary form, from sympathetic strangeling to fully-fledged manipulator in EastEnders, and she’s currently celebrating her victory over mortal enemy, Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick).

Ever since arriving in Walford, creepy Bea has been utterly obsessed with infiltrating Honey Mitchell’s (Emma Barton) life and installing herself as her bestie, with everybody else in Honey’s inner circle proving to be little more than an obstacle that she needs to remove.

She successfully manipulated dear, sweet Honey into letting her move into their home, while clearly having no intention of ever moving out, while also stealing Honey’s identity to get her hands on a credit card.

It seemed for a brief moment that her insane attention had diverted to Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt), though she soon returned her focus to Honey when Ian binned her, but the true scope of her ruthlessness didn’t become clear until she sabotaged a ladder, hoping Billy would do himself serious damage, unaware that Honey would be the next one to use it.

With any pretence of friendship between Bea and Billy long since destroyed, both have been actively trying to convince Honey that the other is a villain.

‘Honey is people pleasing, and trying to make them both be friends. She definitely knows that there is no love lost between Billy and Bea, and she is constantly trying to convince Billy to warm to her,’ Emma said.

Bea, meanwhile, capitalises on a pretty rubbish date between Honey and Billy: ‘She is doubting who she is as a woman, and I think the signal she’s got from Billy, and especially after this failed date, is maybe she’s not attractive anymore.

‘Maybe he doesn’t fancy her anymore, and that’s really hard for her to process.

‘We also have to remember that Honey has never had a best friend before, so she is welcoming Bea’s advice. It’s really clouding her judgement.’

Bea, while trying to erode Honey’s confidence in her relationship, also set about creating an AI voice clip of Billy to place on a dating profile that she set up.

When Billy drafted in Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) to help with the Bea problem, it spectacularly backfired, when Bea announced publicly what Billy and Phil had done, with the added – false – information that Billy had previously tried to sleep with her.

With that, it appeared that Bea had won. Billy was kicked out and Bea invited back, but Billy and Honey’s son, Will (Freddie Phillips) smelt an enormous rat, and sought out his dad, admitting that he believed he’d been set up.

Next week sees Will continue to investigate Bea, determined to reunite his parents and break Bea’s spell over his mum.

Spying his opportunity, Will snatches Bea’s phone and searches it for information he can use to back up his claims. With the tea he manages to find, he heads back to his dad, and they try and decide how best to move forward.

Can someone as deeply devious and twisted as Bea be felled by a teenager who’s trying to help his mum and dad reunite? Or will he become another victim of her absolute insanity?