{"id":382369,"date":"2026-04-16T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:15:10","slug":"eastenders-confirms-the-identity-of-vickis-blackmailer-in-early-iplayer-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382369\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders confirms the identity of Vicki’s blackmailer in early iPlayer release"},"content":{"rendered":"

EastEnders<\/a> spoilers follow for Thursday\u2019s episode (16 April), which is available to watch now on streaming service BBC iPlayer and hasn\u2019t yet aired on TV.<\/p>\n

EastEnders has confirmed the identity of Vicki Fowler and Zack Hudson\u2019s mystery blackmailer \u2013 and it might not be who you expect. This week, the pair were involved in another steamy clinch<\/a> at Vicki\u2019s hen do, ahead of her wedding to Ross Marshall next month.<\/p>\n

As Vicki made it clear to Zack that things were over between them, an anonymous blackmailer texted her a photo of them kissing<\/a> and demanded money, or else Ross will find out the truth.<\/p>\n

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While Mark discovered that the message was sent from Lauren and Peter\u2019s house<\/a>, Vicki failed to track down the blackmailer \u2013 who gave her 24 hours to hand over \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n

Ian piled pressure on Vicki to tell Ross the truth in today\u2019s episode<\/a>, so he didn\u2019t have to hear the truth about her affair from the person sending her threats.<\/p>\n

Left with no other options, Vicki told Zack that she was going to confess everything to Ross. She then found her partner and asked to have a chat with him, but Ross had a client waiting so they agreed to meet up at lunch instead.<\/p>\n

As Zack comforted Vicki in the meantime, she apologised for stringing him along over the last few weeks. Zack encouraged her to reply to the blackmailer to get more clues about their identity.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sam, Ian and Louie went to visit Nigel in the care home<\/a>, and Kathy later joined them. When Julie left the room, Ian asked his mum why she didn\u2019t tell him about Vicki and Zack.<\/p>\n

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Related: EastEnders fans have worrying Denise Fox theory after alarming new scene<\/a><\/p>\n

Ian and Kathy were suspicious when Louie got a message on his phone, which he shouldn\u2019t be using for texting. They took his device and saw a text from Vicki \u2013 and realised that Louie was the blackmailer.<\/p>\n

When Ian marched Louie home to apologise, Zack discovered the truth, so he headed to Knight Fusion and stopped Vicki before she could spill the beans to Ross. <\/p>\n

Louie told horrified Vicki that he sent the messages, adding that Cindy had previously told him that blackmail was a “necessarily evil”. He begged her not to tell his parents, explaining that he did this because he knows they are struggling for money.<\/p>\n

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Related: 12 huge EastEnders spoilers for next week<\/a><\/p>\n

Vicki agreed not to tell Lauren and Peter, as long as he deleted the incriminating photo. She convinced Ian to keep quiet as well, insisting that things were over between her and Zack, but he said he didn\u2019t feel able to be the best man at the wedding anymore.<\/p>\n

That evening, Vicki told Zack once more that her heart lies with Ross. But Zack revealed that he isn\u2019t completely out of the picture yet, as Ross has asked him to be his best man after Ian dropped out.<\/p>\n

Will Vicki and Ross get married without a hitch next month, or could Zack spoil the party?<\/p>\n

EastEnders airs on Mondays – Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast.<\/p>\n

Read more EastEnders spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale- as Carla and Lisa get married and Charity goes into labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EastEnders spoilers follow for Thursday\u2019s episode (16 April), which is available to watch now on streaming service BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147144,2115,198722,2117,156,2116,111,139,69,198721,147307,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-382369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-c6d6b9b1-c22e-4ce2-9619-d352dbdbbc2c","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-shorttitle-eastenders-confirms-the-identity-of-vickis-blackmailer","18":"tag-subsection-eastenders","19":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}