EastEnders actress Natalie Cassidy is heavily pregnant with her second child. Her character Sonia Fowler isn’t.

But viewers were left questioning if there’d been a sudden plot change when she appeared in Tuesday night’s episode.

Many were left bemused that soap bosses had given up on trying to hide it.

To clarify, 33-year-old Natalie is pregnant, Sonia is not.

Natalie is due later this summer; it’s her first with cameraman beau Marc Humphreys, after she gave birth to a daughter Eliza with ex-fiance Adam Cottrell.