EastEnders' Lily Slater to hide a secret after seeing Theo again

EastEnders' Lily Slater is set to hide a secret after seeing teacher Theo Hawthorne again.

In scenes airing this week on the soap, amid tensions in the Slater household, Theo steps in and buys Lily trainers that she wanted, though Amy is left concerned over Theo's ulterior motive.

Amy later tells Stacey about what was happening, and while Lily offers an innocent explanation, Stacey catches up with Theo and there is clear tension.

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In new scenes set to air next week, Lily and Ricky are invited to meet social services and are worried about what they can expect.

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In an effort to come up with a money-making scheme, they lure Theo to Walford, and when he arrives she explains their predicament, revealing she will sell the trainers. Theo reassures her and gives her some money.

He also tells her to inform Stacey that the cash came from Ricky doing odd jobs, and Lily is thrilled that she's played him.

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In other EastEnders news, star Jamie Borthwick has discussed how he'd like to exit the soap as Jay Brown following the death of on-screen wife Lola Pearce-Brown. In her final scenes, Jay suggested that Lola could come back as a fox – with a shot of a fox after Lola's death alluding to the scene – while she suggested he could come back as a rat.

Speaking to the Daily Star, Jamie said of his own potential exit: "Well, I can't do any better than hers, can I? So fine, kill me off. In the monologue which I say to her, I say I'll be a rat and you can be a fox, and then there's going to be a clip.

"I will sacrifice never coming back to EastEnders again just so we can have a fox and a rat rummaging through the bins as my final clip. I would sacrifice that for this soap, that's how giving I am. Kill me off just for that, I don't need to work ever again just for that, for that one scene."

EastEnders airs on Mondays - Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer.