Month: July 2019

Soap Blog: 8th – 14th July 2019

Coronation Street

Sean accuses Paul of attacking him but it turns out to have been one of his friends, thinking he was doing him a favour.  When Billy finds out the truth, he turns Paul’s friend into the please, knowing it’s the right thing to do, upsetting Paul.  Kirk comes home.  Nick has a difficult time in prison and David refuses to help him.  Tired of being mistreated by her family, Gail leaves the country without saying goodbye.  David refuses to help Nick when he struggles behind bars but eventually, they pull together to support each other in court.  At least, that’s what David thinks they’re doing.  In court, Nick lays all the blame on David until he is pricked with conscience at sentencing and admits that everything was his fault.  It’s not enough to save David who, having already been in trouble with the law, get a shorter custodial sentence while Nick is in more trouble but able to walk out of court.  Sinead remains anxious despite being told that the doctors can no long see any tumours but as she and Daniel plan a holiday, he proposes again – a legal wedding this time.  Alya and Ryan get together.  Steve and Michael use Tim’s horse for their new ‘unicorn’ party business.  Alina dumps Seb while Jan makes his move on Eileen, who turns him down.

(Doctors is on a summer break)

Eastenders

Shirley sets up a fight between Kush and Martin so that they can settle their differences but when they pull together to stop Martin’s money belt from being stolen, they finally make friends.  However, it’s too late for Stacey and Kat who cannot work things out over the custody battle or the stolen money.  Their argument spirals completely out of control and Stacey throws Kat out of the house.  Mo and Jean try and fail to bring the girls back together.  Having got wrapped up in the idea of proposing to Adam, Honey is devastated to spot him and Habiba looking cosy together on CCTV.  Ian blunders in on Max and Jack’s hunt for Rainie and Abi.  Struggling with the baby, who is missing her favourite toy, Rainie enlists Stuart’s help to distract Max so she can sneak back to the house to retrieve it.  Unfortunately, Jack catches her in the act.  However, she overpowers him, knocks him out and makes her escape with Abi – and the toy!  The 10K run to raise money for Autism Awareness gets underway but Gray is left furious when Mitch cheats in order to beat him (and Bex beats him fair and square).  He demands that Chantelle come home with him where we finally learn the truth about their relationship – her physically assaults her and it’s not the first time.

Emmerdale

Sam finds Lydia at the police station and brings her home.  She tearfully explains that she got pregnant as a young teenager in a children’s home but when she gave birth alone, the baby died.  She didn’t know what to do so she buried the baby and ran away, changing her name and attempting to start a new life.  Sam the Dingle clan rally round Lydia, keen to protect and support her.  The police inform Lydia that the CPS will not be pressing charges, explaining that she has done nothing wrong.  It was a tragedy, not a crime.  They offer to put her in touch with counselling services. However, Lydia is desperate to be punished but Sam is very grateful.  As word gets round, the villagers are sympathetic.  Jacob tricks David and Leyla into admitting that they have been lying to him and tricking him into talking to him online.  Faith is upset over losing Eric.  Kerry is put out when Dan goes on a date.  She interrupts and makes a fool of herself before hitting on Nate.  Amy walks in on them kissing.  Drunk, Kerry insists that nothing happened but then admits that they slept together weeks ago.  Kerry and Dan kiss.  Lee’s mother visits Victoria and Diane yet again, desperate to be part of the baby’s life.  However, Victoria is keen to push forward with her plans to move to Cornwall with Diane.  David is anxious about receiving some test results from the hospital while Priya confesses to Andrea that she is struggling with bulimia again.

Hollyoaks

Tom enrols Prince and Romeo on his summer camp venture after a fight in Price Slice mean they have to cough up for damages.  None of his recruits are impressed with his plans.  James confronts Liam in front of Grace about paying Sadie off but he has an answer for everything.  Ste informs James that he and Harry kissed in an attempt to break them up.  When James is convinced that Harry is lying about meeting Sadie to go to the police with a statement, he drugs him so he misses seeing her, ruining his chances of freedom.  Marnie becomes concerned about James’s behaviour.  Jonny persuades Ste to go on a date with Jed but he finds him arrogant and boring.  Mercedes continues her affair with Liam but is nearly caught out by Breda (and her dog).  Later, she gets a text, warning her that she is being watched and the sender knows what she is up to.  While she panics that someone knows the truth about the accident, Liam soon discovers that Grace has discovered their affair and is winding them up for fun.  However, there is now CCTV evidence of the affair.  Maxine gets in over her head with the wedding plans.  Goldie and Joel get closer.

Home and Away

With Tori’s letter of support, the charges against Mason are dropped and he leaves court a free man.  But the mood is brought down when Brody makes his announcement that he and Simone are leaving for the Yarra Valley the next day and they have bought a restaurant there.  While the rest of his siblings try to be supportive, Raffy rants at Simone for breaking up her family.  Before he leaves the Bay the following day, Brody stops to say an apologetic goodbye to Ziggy and give her their wedding album.  She rejects him and the album so he gives the album to her parents instead.  He thanks them for everything they did for him.  He and Dean exchange unpleasant words.  Maggie and Ben tease Ziggy and Dean about Dean sleeping over.  Ben also decides to pay Dean a proper wage rather than just commission.  Bella continues to war with Irene.  However, with Willow’s help, the teenage begins to mellow and agrees to follow Irene’s rules and put her life back together.  Jasmine admits to Robbo that she doesn’t want children.  John and Marilyn reach a compromise over Jett.

Neighbours

Andrea tries to persuade Dee to go back to her life as Karen but when she persists in asking about Toadie things get physical and Andrea pushes Dee off the cliff.  Satisfied that she has killed her, she heads back to Erinsborough when she has arranged for Ian to inform Toadie that Dee has contacted him and is on a flight back from South Africa to see him.  However, the person who actually shows up is Andrea, dressed as the hippie Dee she met on the cliff.  Unfortunately for Andrea, while she is successfully persuading Toadie, Susan and even her daughter Willow that she is Dee, the real Dee has been rescued by drunk Heather.  She manages to confuse Heather and persuade her that she is really Andrea and the pair of them head back to Erinsborough.  Outside Toadie’s house, Mark pounces on Heather and arrests her while the real Dee shows up in front of Toadie, utterly confusing him.  When she has more information about her life with Toadie that Andrea has, he finally knows the difference between the two of them and Andrea is found out.  Willow captures her mother as she tries to run and she too is arrested.  Dee explains to Toadie that before the wedding, she and her sister, who was dating Riley, also involved in the gang, got caught up in a criminal gang.  They thought she had seen something that she didn’t see and they put a hit out on her, tampering with the car.  Riley rescued her from the water and told her Toadie was dead.  By the time she knew he was alive, she and Riley were and item, on the run from the gang.  Her sister was killed by the gang and by the time she had split up with Riley, Toadie had moved on with Sonya.  It’s all too much for Toadie to process and he pushes Dee away.  She leaves him her old diaries in a bid to explain who she has been in their time apart.  Sheila sets Gary up to fail on babysitting duty with Amy where she overhears him confessing that he doesn’t want children.  However, Amy decides she wants Gary more than more kids and it’s another hurdle the couple overcome.  Chloe accidentally drives a wedge between Pierce and Ebony, causing Ebony to take Pierce’s money and leave when she thinks that Pierce still has feelings for Chloe.  Leo is horrified when he realises that David is planning to meet Robert Robinson in prison.

Soap Blog: 1st – 7thJuly

Coronation Street

When Yasmeen parties with Alya and her friends, he loses his temper and stages a burglary to frighten and upset Yasmeen all over again, pointing the blame as Alya’s friends.  Alya and Ryan accuse Geoff of being the thief but he manages to prove them wrong despite them being correct!  Geoff then sells the items and cruelly destroys a photograph of Cal.  He also talks her out of getting involved in a promising business offer, letting Alya take the lead instead.  Audrey is taken ill, angering Nick who had arranged for Leanne to try and win her over.  Gail attempts to bring her family back together but only succeeds in sparking another family row.  Audrey gets injured but when paramedics arrive, the police come too and David and Nick are jailed for breaking their bail conditions.  Sean accuses Paul of stealing some charity money furthering their feud.  Later, Sean is attacked.  Carla returns home and decides to give away her shares in the factory to her employees.

(Doctors is on a summer break)

Eastenders

Walford celebrate Pride in style Bernie’s family in particular support her!  Whitney, Stuart and Callum meet up with Callum and Stuart’s Dad, Jono.  But despite Callum and Stuart making an effort, it’s clear that vile Jono has not changed.  He airs his homophobic views in the pub, coming into conflict with Phil and Ben and later, resulting in a fight with Ben in the toilet.  Stuart later rescues Callum from Jono’s violence before witnessing a tender moment between Callum and Ben.  He confronts his brother who finally admits his feelings for Ben.  Stuart responds by beating the living daylights out of Ben, warning him away from Callum.  Kat is furious to find her money has been stolen, having promised it to fund Kush’s legal fees.  After accusing Martin of stealing the cash, she is upset to learn that it was actually Stacey.  Adam and Honey announce they are buying their flat pushing Habiba into finding herself a husband.  Bernie discovers that the girl she is talking to online is really Tiffany.

Emmerdale

Victoria is distressed when Lee’s mother challenges her, demanding that she stop accusing her son of rape.  When Lee then arrives, an argument breaks out and Diane accidentally reveals that Victoria is pregnant, prompting Lee’s mother to demand to be part of the baby’s life.  Dawn agrees to move back in with Harriet.  She is moved when she overhears her discussing her feelings for Will with Laurel and agrees to let him stay in the village.  Faith is horrified to realise that Bear can’t read and so couldn’t have known the gender of baby – just as Paddy and Chas announce they are having a boy.  Continuing Lisa’s bucket list, Lydia and Sam streak through the grounds of Home Farm!  Doug lets Brenda down and then puts his back out trying to make things up to her.  The Dingles say their goodbyes to Lisa.  Jacob fails to get in touch with Maya while David sets up a gaming profile in a bid to speak to his son online.  However, it’s not long before Jacob suspects he is being catfished.  The bones of a baby are found underneath the school, which used to be a children’s home.  The police identify the mother as being a young girl called Jenny Flynn and her photo bears a striking resemblance to Lydia, who vanishes and then hands herself into the police.

Hollyoaks

Max and Nicole come back to Hollyoaks for Max’s birthday to see the McQueen’s but it goes wrong from the start when Mercedes has bought him the wrong present.  Things get more and more awkward as Max makes it clear that he feels unloved and unwanted.  Unable to cope, Mercedes escapes to the bathroom and snorts cocaine.  She comes back into the room high and out of control, scaring the kids and prompting Nicole to take Max away for good.  Everyone else leaves too and nobody is impressed, least of all Breda.  Sylver is utterly furious, especially when he realises that she has been lying to him all this time and is still using drugs.  He loses his temper and throws a chair across the room, just as Breda reappears.  He breaks down on his mother, scared that he is still the same person who killed his step-father, little knowing that he only ever injured him.  It was Breda who deliberately finished him off and let her son take the blame.  Mercedes turns to Liam for support and the next day, while Breda has Mercedes in her sights as her next victim, Sylver intercepts and wants to try and make things work but ultimately, she ends up cheating on him with Liam.  Scott and Levi get closer but Scott still hasn’t told Levi the truth about being a drag queen.  James’s suspicions continue to grow when Harry spends a secret day with Ste, requested by Tony, to try and get through to him about his behaviour.  Ste and Harry persuade Sadie to return and James manages to get her to confess that Liam paid her to leave town.  Worried that Ste and Harry are getting too close, Jonny decides to find him a date.  Tom decides to set up a summer camp for kids, roping Peri and Yasmine in on the venture.

Home and Away

Things are a little awkward between Dean and Ziggy when they return home but eventually, they decide to make a go of things.  The news immediately spreads and Ziggy’s parents, plus Willow offer their support.  Bella is livid and when Colby tries to stop her laying into Ziggy, she lashes out at him, hitting him in the head with a pool ball.  At his wit’s end, Colby sends Bella to stay with Irene.  Tori refuses to stand up for Mason regarding the cannabis oil in court until Raffy makes a genuine pitch on Mason’s behalf.  Brody decides to consider moving further afield with Simone.  John cannot relax over Jett living on his own in the city, despite the support that has been provided for him.  He is overly anxious very snappy, particularly with Marilyn.  Eventually he decides he wants to move to the city to be with him – with or without Marilyn.  Jasmine and Robbo get engaged again.

Neighbours

Angry Roxy interrupts a business meeting between Paul, Therese, Pierce and some investors – topless!  Pierce then decides to invest in the business himself.  Chloe helps Ebony and her sister with accommodation but when Pierce finds her swooning over Ebony’s wedding dress, she insists that it’s time for Ebony to tells Pierce the truth.  Amy wants to have a baby with Gary but he doesn’t like the idea one bit.  Deciding that Amy and Gary are recipe for disaster, Sheila and Paul plot against them, starting with Sheila locking Gary in a store cupboard, causing him to miss a meeting with the wedding photographer.  Kyle meanwhile, is devastated by the news that Amy is planning to have kids with his father.  Aaron and David return from Japan to find that Roxy has taken over their house!  During a therapy session, Finn admits his feelings for Bea to David.  Ned wants to keep things low key with Yashvi.  While Andrea makes herself more at home with Toadie, Heather makes her way to Bryon Bay and gets closer to tracking down the elusive ‘Karen’.  She meets Riley, the man in Ian’s photograph and orchestrates a meeting with Karen.  However, when Andrea gets wind of what her mother is up to, she intercepts and comes face to face with ‘Karen’ – Dee – herself.

Soap Blog: 24th – 30th June

Coronation Street

Geoff makes Yasmeen feel awful when she is late and a little tipsy to dinner at home with Sally.  He then causes trouble the next day to punish her for having a hangover which prompts her to get mugged with all the takings from the restaurant.  Geoff then uses the mugging to keep Yasmeen under his control.  Gemma tries and fails to sell her pregnancy story to a magazine to make some cash.  Gary makes money from Rick’s demise and unwittingly starts his own career as a slightly friendlier loan shark.  Adam and Gary square up after Adam realises that Gary injured Sarah in temper.

(Doctors is on a summer break)

Eastenders

Ian is shocked to return to the Square and find that Bobby is home and Kathy has opened a gay bar!  After a conversation with Mel, Max stands up for Bobby publically but is suspect number one when Bobby is assaulted.  However, Bobby eventually reveals that he deliberately picked a fight with some lads.  Jay is intimidated to discover that Ruby is rich and eventually, they split up.  Ben tries to manipulate the situation to make Lola stay in Walford.  Jack confronts Tiffany’s rapist.  Mel backs out of robbing Jack but leaves Rainie with opportunity to do it instead, also running off with baby Abi!  Jean argues with an annoying patient at the hospital.  Chantelle is frustrated with Mitch for not trying to get along with Gray.

Emmerdale

Billy goes through with the robbery but has already contacted the police in order to get Max caught once and for all.  Unfortunately, he gets away.  The football match is a shambles but Paddy is thrilled to score their one solitary goal and be named man of the match.  Meanwhile, back in the Village, Max takes Marlon, Jessie and April hostage in order to punish Billy for setting him up during the robbery.  Billy hands himself over to Max but Jessie gets shot and Billy nearly beats Max to death in retaliation.  In hospital, Billy confesses to his mother that he really was responsible for the crime he was imprisoned for – she has always believed he was innocent.  She is horrified by the level of violence she saw in him towards Max.  But ultimately, she forgives him.  Dawn discovers the truth about Harriet and Will and cannot forgive them.  Faith and Bear find the gender reveal for Paddy and Chas’s baby and according to Bear, it’s a boy but their secrecy makes Chas suspect they are having an affair, causing Faith’s relationship with Eric to come crashing down around her.

Hollyoaks

The kids all dress up for the Gatsby themed prom.  Juliet looks amazing and bonds with her ‘grandmother’, Marnie who has made a particular fuss of her.  However, Diane interrupts proceedings by having a go at Laurie and then Brooke cannot walk into the hall due to the smoke machines.  So the kids decide to host their own prom at The Hutch instead and have a great night, particularly Brooke and Ollie who are very much in love.  Things go well for Juliet until Imran accidentally says the wrong thing and she leaves.  Back at the school, meanwhile, Diane gets Laurie alone and very much takes him down a peg or two.  Unfortunately, he recovers and attempts to rape her as well.  Sami has ditched Liberty once again to help Brody babysit Sienna and Sinead but thankfully, the girls escape and head to the school.  They arrive just in time to stop Laurie attacking Diane but in so doing, Sinead throws her husband off the balcony.  She does, however, also save his life.  She is arrested but once Sally gets wind of what has happened, she reveals that after Laurie’s behaviour was unearthed, she installed CCTV into the school.  The whole incident is captured on camera.  Laurie is arrested and Sinead is released.  Liberty ends her relationship with Sami, telling him that she knows he is in love with Sinead, who is not interested in Sami, or anyone else for that matter!  Levi is disgusted by Scott in drag but, not recognising him the next day, asks him out!

Home and Away

With Colby out of mind with worry back in Summer Bay, Ziggy and Dean finally discover Bella hiding in the boot!  Colby flies out to bring his sister home but Bella is eager to make her case.  She tells Dean that he should be with Willow, not Ziggy and she is very anxious that their ‘family’ – her, Colby, Dean and Willow – should not be broken up.  While Dean and Ziggy begin their rally, Colby brings Bella home but not without argument or her threatening to tell the police that he shot her father dead.  On the rally, Dean and Ziggy finally get together.  Simone goes all out to help Raffy’s family throw an amazing Sweet Sixteen party for her.  Ryder arranges for Raffy’s best friend, Coco to return to the Bay for the party as a surprise.  Raffy is thrilled, although Coco doesn’t waste any time in giving Brody and Simone a piece of her mind right in the middle of the party.  Mason puts his opinion regarding cannabis oil in the local press, infuriating his family who are worried about his court case.  Jett starts a new life in the city.

Neighbours

Paul turns down Therese’s proposal, knowing she asked him for the wrong reasons.  Chloe challenges Ebony, convinced she is scamming Pierce, prompting her to confess that she lied to him about her background and she has been squirreling money away for her sister who is a single mother.  With tension about to explode between them all, Kyle decides to leave Erinsborough once the tram contract is complete.  Concerned about her daughter, Liz returns and whisks Elly away for a change of scene.  Dipi is deeply concerned that Andrea is taking Toadie in for a second time and continues to try and find Dee on the sly so that he won’t need Andrea around anymore.  Getting wind of this, Andrea orchestrates a situation to reveal Dipi’s secret task to Toadie, provoking another row and pushing Dipi away from her family.  Toadie accompanies Andrea to another hypnosis session with a specialist but this time, she goes under for real and unearths a memory she didn’t know she had.  It freaks her out so she goes to visit her mother, only to find her in bed with Ian!  Armed with information from Ian, Heather decides to track Dee down herself.  With Bea’s support, Finn starts teaching adult education classes.  Deciding to get Bea out of his head once and for all, Ned decides to investigate his blossoming feelings for Yashvi.

Soap Blog: 17th – 23rd June

Coronation Street

Rick sets a trap for Gary who thinks Sarah is in danger and ends up in a battle to the death.  However, Sarah is far from in danger, she is wrapped up in her new, secret love affair with Adam!  Gary wins, burying Rick in the woods but is furious to learn that Sarah no longer trusts him and has moved on with Adam.  He scares Sarah by showing his violent side, unable to accept that their relationship is over.  Roy discovers that his mother once had an affair and was truly in love, an emotion she never showed him in her life.  Robert buries himself in more lies as he proposes to Michelle and discovers that Vicky is pregnant.  Aggie and Claudia bury the hatchet.

Doctors

When the police struggle with their investigation, Shak and Ayesha go rogue.  Immie returns and helps Ayesha find out exactly who spiked her drink.  They video the man and tackle him but Immie gets hurt in the process.  There’s a spark between Immie and Sid.  Daniel and Becky begin a relationship in secret but end things quickly when they are caught out by a disgusted Jimmi.  But it’s all too late as heartbroken Zara catches on, realising that Becky is the person that Daniel has fallen for.  Ruhma gets a blast from the past when she supports a woman in labour with a grandmother who has dementia. 

Eastenders

Whitney plays a trick on Tiffany when she hears her complaining about bridesmaid dresses.  Martin and Stacey go to war with Kush over Arthur with Kat getting caught in the crossfire.  Keanu is stunned to hear of Sharon’s pregnancy.  Sharon coerces Karen to help her lay down to Keanu exactly what would happen to him when he wants to tell the truth about their affair, taking him hostage and scaring the life out of him.  She insists to him that it is not his baby.  Max attacks Bobby.  Billy expresses his concerns about Adam.  Karen supports Linda and Mick with Ollie.

Emmerdale

Victoria is furious when the police investigate the posters Robert has posted at Lee’s place of work labelling him a rapist.  Things unravel for Nate when Tracey informs Amy that he jumped out of her bed into a date with her and Kerry nearly reveals that they slept together too!  Moira reluctantly lies for Amy when she loses Kyle but Cain finds out in the end and bans Amy from seeing her son.  Megan avoids a custodial sentence.  David begins counselling over Maya and Jacob.  Jacob rescues Maya after she is harassed by school kids and they vow to be together after her court hearing.  However, Maya is sent to jail for a year, breaking Jacob’s heart and his family’s celebrations lead him to punching David.  Rhona and Pete continue to struggle.  Jai and Laurel get together!

Hollyoaks

Having learnt that Brooke, Ollie, Juliet and Imran have sneaked off to her old farm, Breda rejects Jack’s marriage proposal and hurries off to chase the kids away.  She is just digging Louis’s body up and slinging it into the back of her car when Jack appears, oblivious to the scene in front of him.  When he spots Louis’s ring on the ground, she distracts him by giving him the ring and accepting his proposal but is horrified later to realise that the ring has Louis’s initials on it.  Breda is horrified to learn of Jack’s past crimes but he unwittingly saves his own life by explaining that he was a child himself and he has been paying for it ever since.  Things go wrong for Mitchell when he confronts Maxine about her lies and she furiously denies it.  Sinead pleads guilty and is released on bail.  Sami locates Georgia, the woman who previously made an allegation against Laurie but she is too scared to talk and Sinead is livid when she learns that it was Sami who arranged for Laurie to pay her off.  Brody and Sienna meanwhile, attempt to track down other previous victims but none of them are helpful.  Diane decides to visit Finn in prison to try and work out what could be going on in Laurie’s head.  Grace is determined to walk again.

Home and Away

Robbo is thrown when he is invited in Jasmine’s counselling session and while she is keen to get back together, he feels he needs to work through his issues by himself first.  Justin impresses Leah on their first proper date by teaching her how to surf.  Roo is confused by Alf and Martha living in separate locations.  Raffy’s family cannot agree on the cannabis trial but off of it, she has a seizure.  Brody is conflicted as he accepts an offer on his restaurant, torn over the idea of moving away from his family.  Ziggy persuades Dean to join her in a charity car rally.  As they, Colby, Willow and Bella rush to finish restoring the car, Bella is livid at the chemistry between Dean and Ziggy.  When Dean and Ziggy head off for the rally, they are oblivious to the fact that Bella is hiding in the boot!  Jett is offered an independent living place in the city and despite his own anxiety and that of his parents, decides to go for it.

Neighbours

Andrea gains Toadie’s pity when she fakes losing her job and becoming homeless.  He pays for her to stay at Lassiter’s and even helps her get a cleaning job there.  However, her plan starts to unravel when both her mother and Ian show up.  Pierce dismisses Chloe’s concerns about Ebony.  Shaun leaves the country in order to give Elly and Mark space to reconnect after the former couple share a surprise kiss.  Unfortunately, Mark does not want to reconcile.  Angry Roxy’s partying spirals out of control, resulting in the tram getting robbed of all Kyle and Karl’s tools and things remain unsettled between Terese and Paul, prompting her to propose!

Soap Bog: 10th – 16th June

Coronation Street

Leanne pays Natalie to vanish, helping Nick to stay out of jail but meaning that David could end up in it.  With everyone having pulled out, Sally and Tim are stuck with the horse.  Ken accidentally ends up warring with his neighbours before they even move in.  Having brokered peace, however, the new Bailey family, accidentally knock through the wall between their house and Ken’s!  The eldest son, Michael takes Michelle out an epic fail of a date, prompting her to decide she and Robert belong together after all.  However, he has been living a secret life with Tyler’s mother, Vicky!  And even he is unaware that he’s got her pregnant!  Sarah hooks up with Adam in secret. 

Doctors

Zara is distraught to discover that Daniel has feelings for someone else.  He confides in Jimmi who tells him to go for it, not realising he is talking about Becky.  However, when Daniel confesses his true feelings, Becky turns him down.  Shak does well during his first day with the police.  Al and Rob support a girl caught up in a cancer lie but is actually suffering with Trichotillomania.  Zara gets emotionally involved with a couple who have lost their baby.  Su says goodbye to The Mill, much to everyone’s relief.  Ayesha has her drink spiked on a night out and wakes up with only a hazy memory of the night before.  Emma supports her as she turns to the police for help.  Has she been sexually assaulted?

Eastenders

Louise and Keanu reunite and plan their future with their baby, neither of them knowing that Sharon is now also pregnant until Phil makes a proud announcment.  Reacting to his night with Ben, Callum proposes to Whitney.  Kush and Sonia intervene when they realise that Robbie is withholding Sami from Nita, who promptly comes to Walford to retrieve her son.  Bailey has to face both her first birthday without her mother and her mother’s funeral all within one week.  Mick and Linda face up to the idea that Ollie may be autistic.  Kim steps in as temporary Manager on the launch night of The Prince Albert and the Carters have a fabulous night in Spice World!  Bobby returns.

Emmerdale

Maya has been assaulted by a random vigilante.  David cannot take the pressure of what has happened to Jacob and completely falls apart.  Zak finally reads Lisa’s letter, apologising to Lydia for taking his grief out on her.  Kim discovers that Graham paid Andrea to spy on Jamie and he still doesn’t know that’s how they got together.  With Kim now aware, Andrea confesses all to her husband.  Ellis struggles with panic attacks in the wake of his stabbing and, paranoid about Max being after him, accidentally knocks Marlon out.  Billy agrees to take a job with Max in order to get him to leave Ellis alone.  Tracey hooks up with Nate who then moves onto Amy.  Robert and Aaron track Lee down, confronting him about raping Victoria.  Will starts a trial job at the garage.

Hollyoaks

Ste’s horrifying, racist, illegal march goes ahead, prompting violence and arrests.  Ste ends up on the front of the newspaper as ‘the face of hate’ and he is rejected by both his family and his racist friends who can no longer be associated with him, leaving him with nothing.  Finding him with a bottle of alcohol, Peri takes pity on him and begs him to come home.  However, Ste still chooses Jonny and Stuart, begging them to take him back.  They test his loyalty by sending a fake policeman round to ask him about the group.  When he refuses to open up, they welcome him back in and he gets the group’s tattoo done.  He still takes their side when Peri proves that Jonny isn’t his brother like he claimed.  Juliet manipulates Brooke into missing her exam and then into lying about why.  Breda backs out of moving in with Jack so he decides to propose.  Maxine fakes a collapse at her engagement party when paralysed Grace gets too much attention.  She then starts a row with Damon when he needs to tidy up the party and tells Alison Hammond on This Morning a sob story about how her fiancé has left her because she is unwell.  Seeing the story, a top consultant called Levi takes her case on, panicking her about her lies being found out.  When some blood test results don’t match, Mitchell suspects that Maxine is faking her illness.  Laurie goads Sally into admitting that she believes he is guilty, prompting her to be suspended.

Home and Away

Bella agrees to change her ways after being suspended.  Gossip spreads about Leah and Justin.  Alf returns and reveals that he and Martha are now an item.  Mason throws his opportunity to apply for a hospital internship away by buying cannabis to make the oil for Raffy for her epilepsy and getting himself arrested.  Alf steps in when he sees John mollycoddling Jett, allowing Marilyn to help him become more independent.  Jasmine starts her counselling sessions.  Brody and Ziggy agree to the terms of their divorce.

Neighbours

Andrea fakes horrific memories of her mother during hypnosis sessions with Karl while drip feeding information about her encounter with Ian.  She and Toadie go to meet Ian who tells them what he knows about ‘Karen’.  It all matches up to confirm that he is talking about Dee, only he tells them that she moved to South Africa and he is no longer in touch with her.  However, only some of the story is true and she pays him in kind for his help.  Kyle and Gary show off in front of Amy as they attempt to work together on Karl’s tram café.  Terese manages to stop Vance selling the horse to Pierce and then helps him skip town.  She then has to explain her history with Vance to unhappy Paul and Roxy.  Ned pays for Bea to record her song in a proper recording studio.  David and Aaron set off for their trip to Japan.

Soap Blog: 3rd – 9th June

Coronation Street

David and Nick face court but the judge needs more information regarding their conflicting stories before sentencing.  Leanne stands by Nick as he mostly confesses to his crimes to her.  Gary returns Rick’s victim’s passports for a fee and gives the money to Sarah to keep the factory going.  Chesney and Gemma discover they are expecting Quadruplets!  Peter and Simon go to Carlisle with Carla who has been sent to a mental health facility there.

Doctors

Su Turtle steps in for Becky as Practice Manager and nobody can stand her apart from Zara who bonds with her over a shared contempt for their ex-partners.  Emma despises her, especially when she realises that she has booked to stay at her house!  Ruhma is alarmed when Shak arranges work experience with the police and panics when Alia collapses due to dehydration and insists on doing her exam that day even though she is in hospital.  Valerie’s cat ends up with RSI due to his art.

Eastenders

Martin and Stacey fall out with Kat and Kush over custody of Arthur.  Robbie returns to Walford with his son.  Honey refuses to believe Billy’s revelations that Adam is cheating on her.  Adam meanwhile manages to keep Habiba dangling on a shoestring even when she admits how invested she is and that she just lost her virginity to him.  Having been called out on hiding his sexuality, Callum sleeps with Ben.  Mick manages to win Spice Girls tickets for Linda.

Emmerdale

Kim gets off to a rather bad start with Jamie’s wife, Andrea after an incident on the road with her horse.  Victoria returns to the Village with a chic new haircut and informs her family that she is keeping the baby.  She then opens up to Marlon and her colleagues at the Woolpack about the rape, keeping the pregnancy a secret.  The police inform Victoria that they don’t have enough evidence to proceed with her case.  Eric persuades Maya to end things once and for all with Jacob and leave him alone, only for David to interrupt and interfere.  Eric and Jacob walk in on David and Leyla who have just slept together.  Lisa’s family and friends gather for her funeral.

Hollyoaks

Liam pays Sadie to retract her alibi for Harry and leave the Village.  Liam, Jesse and Lisa save Harry’s life when Grace threatens him with a gun, prompting Lisa to realise that Liam is responsible for Grace’s accident.  Lisa and Liam get back together.  Goldie develops a crush on Joel.  Ste provokes a hideous argument in the middle of the Village when he sees Peri dressed up in traditional clothes to be a bridesmaid for Liberty and Sami’s wedding.  Leela is horrified to listen in on a meeting held by the far right extremist group her brother has become involved in and she bursts in on them, speaking her mind.  The group arrange a march through the village but when Ste’s anger gets the better of him, the police are finally able to shut it down on the grounds that it is no longer considered peaceful.  Jonny and Stuart are furious with Ste.  Wanting to prove himself, he arranges his own march, inviting people on their banned list.

Home and Away

Dean buys Ziggy a beaten up old car for the two of them to work on as a project.  Brody and Simone break the news to his family that they are selling up and moving away.  Bella gives Roo a particularly hard time as she tries to support her in place of Simone.  Jasmine struggles with abandonment issues.  Leah and Justin decide to make a proper go of their relationship.

Neighbours

Toadie is furious with his family for contacting Andrea.  Andrea agrees to hypnotherapy with Karl to seek memories about Ian and anything she can remember about Karen, who they believe is Dee.  But of course, it’s predominantly lies, constructed to worm her way back into Toadie’s life again, revealed during a conversation she has with her mother on the phone later.  Chloe is mortified to realise that Pierce is engaged to a woman called Ebony and is no longer interested in her.  Therese discovers that the racehorse is stolen and blocks Paul’s attempt to buy it for her.  Yashvi is embarrassed and somewhat annoyed when she tries to kiss Ned and he turns her down while Finn and Bea are awkward after they share a charged moment of their own.