EastEnders’ Mark Fowler Jnr star appeared on the soap before – and fans are stunned

Mark Fowler Jnr isn’t the first character Stephen Aaron-Sipple has played in EastEnders (Picture: BBC/Jack Barns/Kieron McCarron)

Stephen Aaron-Sipple made his first EastEnders appearance on New Year’s Day, as the mysterious ‘man’, who’d apparently managed to seduce Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa), leaving her with a big decision to make.

In the months following, we learned that he wasn’t simply ‘man’, he was, in fact, the new face of Mark Fowler Jnr, taking over the role from Ned Porteous. Tumbling through the front door of uncle ...