{"id":517189,"date":"2026-04-07T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:08:13","slug":"eastenders-lines-up-major-branning-battle-as-max-raises-the-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517189\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders lines up major Branning battle \u2013 as Max raises the stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

EastEnders spoilers<\/a> follow.<\/p>\n

EastEnders fans see Max and Lauren Branning go head-to-head at work next week, as they fight for control of the car lot.<\/p>\n

As the father and daughter duo continue to clash over their differing sales methods, the pair are pitted against each other in a fierce challenge. Who will shift the most motors and claim victory? <\/p>\n

“Max and Lauren are at each other’s throats again,” begins our EastEnders insider. “But this time it’s as colleagues. There’s a proper power struggle at the car lot that is making it tricky to get anything done, so something needs to change \u2013 and fast. Will a sales showdown bring them together, or tear them further apart?”<\/p>\n

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Related: EastEnders reveals Suki’s intervention in Ravi’s sad storyline<\/a><\/p>\n

While Lauren was grateful for Max coughing up the money for her to buy the car lot from Jay Brown, she assumed he would be a mere silent partner. So, it was quite the shock when her dad vowed to be a hands-on manager and started treating her like his assistant.<\/p>\n

Lauren has been running the business single-handedly for months and wants nothing more than to prove herself to everyone. But she hasn’t had much chance to do so, with Max returning to his old stomping ground and getting his feet under the table straight away.<\/p>\n

What becomes clear this week is that Lauren and Max are from different generations, so they have very different ideas about how to sell a car \u2013 but they do share a love of a challenge. Call in Oscar Branning\u2026<\/p>\n

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Related: EastEnders hints at Jasmine Fisher trial outcome in new advanced spoilers<\/a><\/p>\n

“There’s no better person than Oscar to judge this competition, as he’d love the idea of putting his dad and his sister through their paces,” continues our spy.<\/p>\n

“He suggests a friendly competition to decide once and for all who is the better salesperson, and Lauren and Max are more than up for the fight\u2026”<\/p>\n

As the Brannings lock horns in the car lot, Max decides to make things even more interesting. He tells his daughter that if she sells \u00a380,000 worth of cars within a month, he will give her half the business. Can Lauren rise to the occasion and make her dream come true?<\/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 Cain Dingle is left for dead, Jasmine Fisher goes on trial, and Jodie Ramsey gets up to no good again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EastEnders spoilers follow. EastEnders fans see Max and Lauren Branning go head-to-head at work next week, as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147951,147950,379,180378,381,96,1156,180377,148025,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-517189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-inside-soap","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-ef99c734-e379-4103-90cc-28e296c38e3d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-eastenders-lines-up-major-new-branning-battle","tag-subsection-eastenders","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}