Emmerdale's eagle-eyed fans were in disbelief on Monday night as they recognised an EastEnders villain on the hit ITV soap. In a huge soap crossover, viewers were left distracted on Monday's instalment as struggling new dad Billy Fletcher attempted to park at the hospital to see his baby son, Evan, who was recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia . However, Billy couldn't get the parking machine to work as it kept rejecting his money.

A parking attendant then came over, who offered no help or support to the clearly struggling new dad. After suggesting Billy use the parking app, the latter was left further annoyed to have no signal and the parking attendant didn't prove helpful in securing a Wi-Fi password, leaving Billy utterly furious as he snapped. A parking attendant then came over, who offered no help or support to the clearly struggling new dad ( Image: ITV) However, soap watchers were left distracted during the scenes as they recognised the actor Ian Gain who played the car park attendant.

In a huge soap crossover, actor Ian has recently been playing villain Rufus in EastEnders, who has been organising fights and causing trouble for George Knight. Taking to Twitter , now X, one person said: "Was that car park attendant on now in @ emmerdale ,in @bbceastenders last week being the underground boxing organiser ?? #emmerdale #eastenders", a different account put: "Err wasn't the parking attendant in Emmerdale today, in Eastenders last week as a boxing host?" wh.