Day: July 9, 2019

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.