Day: August 12, 2019

Soap Blog: 29th July – 4th August 2019

Coronation Street

Seb discovers the horrific truth about Alina’s life and becomes suspicious of Jan’s involvement in the human trafficking and the life that she and the other girls are being forced to live.  Robert is torn between his life with Michelle and the Bistro and Vicky and his future child, as he narrowly avoids being caught out.

(Doctors is on its summer break)

Eastenders

Sharon is devastated to discover that Phil is not the father of her baby.  Ben discovers that the club is a goldmine if he can only get his hands on it but in the process, learns from Sharon that Phil has cut him out of his will and put Keanu into it.  However, Phil soon gets into an argument with Keanu about the business while at Martin’s birthday drinks while Kat also winds Phil up about the money they stole.  Martin rescues Kat during a violent confrontation between the pair.  Then Stacey knocks Phil out cold after Phil turns on Martin.  With Phil possibly dead in the pit at the Arches, Kat, Martin and Stacey panic until Ben arrives.  He threatens them with a gun, demanding that they leave and insisting he will sort everything out.  While Stacey and Martin plan to go on the run with the kids, breaking their own hearts as they leave Arthur behind with a very confused Kush, Ben sets Keanu up as the culprit for the attack.  All in all, the plot seems to be a combination of Who Shot Phil/Stacey Kills Archie/Grant’s Sharongate Attack on Phil.  But it is at least a lot more interesting that Coronation Street right now.

Caren lets Karen down gently when she realises that she is just experimenting.  Stuart fails on his date with Rainie when he takes her to an AA meeting.  Denise is shocked when Patrick returns to the Square with a new wife!

Emmerdale

It’s the day of the murder mystery and Bernice has persuaded Liam to participate.  Not everything goes to plan however, and rather than her romantic proposal, Bernice ends up crying in the toilet.  Liam, finally catches on though and they do end up getting engaged. 

Lee vows to stay away from Victoria and the baby if she pays him off and publically apologises to him, thus clearing his name of the rape.  Victoria and Robert offer him £10,000 without an apology.  He demands double and insists on the apology.  Leaving, he taunts Robert who sees red.  They fight but when Lee’s taunting gets worse, Robert hits him over the head with a shovel.  Lee is left in a coma, fighting for his life.  Robert pleads self-defence and persuades Victoria to stand up for him, although he eventually tells her what really happened.  She agrees to continue to lie for him.  With Robert in deep trouble with the law, Victoria and Diane cancel their plans to move to Cornwall, knowing they need to support him.

Amy is confronted by a woman she stole £4,000 from and Kerry stupidly steals the charity money raised from the murder mystery day in order to pay her back.  However, the women then realise that she would be seen on CCTV so they go back into the factory to destroy it, not realising that the exposed wires would spark and cause a fire.  Just to make things worse, Tracey is hiding in the stock room at the factory, hoping for a bit of nookie with Billy, who hasn’t turned up – and the stock room door has jammed, leaving her trapped in the fire.  And when she stole the cash, Kerry disabled the fire alarm to get everyone out of the building and they weren’t able to reset it so once the real fire started, nobody was in the building or alerted.  Frank, meanwhile has been confusing everyone with his strange behaviour.  Really, he has been planning to propose to Meghan.  He sneaks back into the factory to retrieve the ring when he hears Tracey calling for help.  He rescues her but stupidly goes back for the ring.  Then just as he is walking out of the burning building, it explodes and sadly, he dies.

Hollyoaks

Sienna’s attempt to snatch the children is thwarted and the Nanny proves that Warren is not the father by showing her pictures of the kids with their Dad.  However, later, she meets up with furious Warren.  The pictures were of the kids with her brother.  He sacks her and leaves.  Meanwhile, Brody is heartbroken over the knowledge that Sienna was about to take the children and walk out on him without looking back.  He attempts to hit on Cindy to distract himself but she persuades him that he and Sienna belong together.

Maxine and Damon get married with him still believing that she has a terminal illness.  Scott comes clean to Levi about his alter ego, prompting Levi to dump him, hand his notes regarding Maxine over to Misbah and leave town.  Misbah forces Maxine to confront her Munchausen’s but she still can’t bring herself to tell Damon the truth.  Instead, she lies about a medical trial she has been put forward for.

Sinead and her family are horrified when she receives an abusive letter from Laurie.  She visits him in prison and informs him that she is finished with him, announcing that she isn’t even attending court tomorrow.  She is going to a festival with her friends instead.

Mitchell is rude to Scott/Anita when he attends hospital in drag after finding himself attracted to him for the second time in a row.  Ollie, Brooke, Imran and Juliet host a party on the boat to make money in order to go the festival.

Home and Away

Justin happens upon John and he is taken to hospital with concussion.  Marilyn persuades Justin to keep John’s car longer than necessary so that he can’t dash off to the city again before he is ready and the lovely guy even fixes it for free.  John becomes poorly again later and ends up back in hospital and it’s a real wakeup call about slowing down.  Jett eventually stands up to John and tells him that he needs to sort things out himself and not have John around doing everything for him so John is forced to take a step back.

Colby and Willow are both concerned about Bella’s change of heart regarding her living situation.  Bella tells Raffy about Tommy and she is deeply concerned.  Tommy eventually admits to Bella that he is not a student but a twenty five year old teacher.  She is worried but he persuades her that she is special and he is only talking to her because she is so clever.

Robbo’s parents disapprove of Jasmine but they are eventually won round.  Leah wants to meet Justin’s daughter’s Ava.  This is not initially met with joy but eventually, Justin agrees, wanting to move forward in their relationship.  Raffy starts her medical trial.

Ben becomes more and more frustrated as he panics over the deadline for the surfboard order, taking his concerns out on his family.  Eventually, he outsources the last of the boards in order to finish the order.  Mackenzie wants Dean to help her take revenge on their absent father, who is running for Parliament.  He refuses.  Colby throws his wedding ring away, ready to move on from his marriage.  Roo is horrified that Ryder has lost interest in school and wants to work at Salt. 

Neighbours

Gary is arrested for the assault on Paul.  The only people who believe in Gary are Amy and Kyle who decide to put their feelings on hold for his sake.  Sheila panics when she finds a bloody crowbar by the tram.  She hides it in the recycling bin until she can talk to Gary, despite Kyle’s protestations.

Aaron brings Chloe and Elly together as friends by arranging a pampering day for them.  However, falling asleep during a massage, Elly is unnerved by romantic dream about Chloe.  Elly confesses and Chloe reassures her but secretly, her hopes of a relationship have been reignited.

Yashvi and Ned book a hotel room to spend their first night together and Yashvi’s first ever night with anybody, but Ned stands her up when he discovers that Bea and Finn are an item and they also reveal that Yashvi was responsible for a break in at the house by a crazed Finn Kelly ‘fan’, Alfie.  When Yashvi warns Ned that she will not be second best to Bea, Ned decides once and for all that he wants to be with Yashvi and they rebook the hotel and make things up.  Bea and Finn come out about their relationship.  Karl and Elly are not supportive.

Dipi snoops in Dee’s diary and confirms her concerns that Dee is in love with Toadie.  She and Shane awkwardly warn her to keep her distance, which upsets Toadie.  But when Dee admits her feelings for Toadie, he is even more confused.  He has feelings for Dee but he feels he cannot betray Sonya.  Dee visits Heather and Andrea in prison.  She is disgusted by Andrea’s attitude and although she feels compassion for Heather’s confusion and remorse, she decides to cut ties with them both in order to move on.

Soap Blog: 22nd – 28th July 2019

Coronation Street

Having gone on the radio to discuss their quads, Chesney and Gemma find themselves in receipt of donations towards their future family.  They then find themselves with a visitor on their doorstep – Gemma’s brash mother who is clearly out for whatever she can get.  While Paul can clearly see through her, Gemma is desperate to believe that she has good intentions, despite her hitting on Chesney the first chance she can get.

Tracy is furious to discover Steve has lied about getting his licence back and about his secret unicorn business.  So while she and the girls abandon the taxi firm back to the boys, they also invest in a hot tub in Sally’s back garden!

Michelle is not happy about Maria and Ali’s budding romance.  Jack falls victim to an intruder, courtesy of an ongoing case of Paula’s.

(Doctors is on its summer break)

Eastenders

Stuart brings battered and broken Rainie and baby Abi back to the Square to be looked after by Kathy.  Stacey finds Max a drunken mess, raging at Rainie when he discovers her whereabouts.  She feels a compelling need to look after him, despite the fact that her connection to him previously wrecked her marriage to Martin, not to mention all the havoc and heartbreak of her marriage to poor Bradley and the rest of the family.  Ignoring Martin’s obvious jealousy and distress, she rushes to Max’s side and even spends the night at his house, fussing and fretting over him.  However, she is shocked the next day to find Max’s heart is healed and he and Ruby are now sleeping together!  Cue a very awkward double date for Max, Ruby (who previously didn’t know about Max and Stacey), Martin and Stacey where Stacey makes a complete prat of herself and further ruins her marriage by her jealousy over Ruby and Max.

Karen announces that she is now a lesbian as she has met another woman called Caren and they’re now dating!  Influenced by Gray, Keegan announces that he wants to quit school and start working, infuriating Mitch who ends up punching Gray.  Of course, this has dire consequences for Chantelle.  With no friends left and haunted by her past, which Jack is now in legal strife for trying to seek justice for, Tiffany decides to return to her mother in Milton Keynes.  Eventually, Keegan comes to his senses and persuades her to stay and the pair get back together.

Emmerdale

Nate encourages Amy to fight for custody of Kyle, all the while winding Moira up about her attraction to him.  With the factory in financial trouble, Rishi reluctantly turns to Kim for a loan.  Bernice plans a charity murder mystery event in a bid to win Liam back.  Kim discovers that Jamie and the staff at the vets have been plotting to trick her into handing her share of the vets over to Jamie to cut her out of the business.  While she confronts Jamie, she has sent Graham to sabotage the vets.  However, Rhona intercepts him.  Matty behaves like a yob when he hangs out with some rival footballers after a match.  Victoria is under yet more pressure from Lee and his mother.

Hollyoaks

Completely out of options and with nobody on his side, Harry has no choice but to go on the run from a crime he didn’t commit.  However, at the last minute, he overhears a conversation between Mercedes and Liam, revealing the truth about the crash, allowing him the chance to stay, prove his case and be a father to his baby boy.  At the same time, James changes his mind and he and Tony desperately try to find Harry and make him stay.  However, it’s too late.  In the alley, Breda has already decided that Harry is a Bad Dad.  She stabs Harry and kills him, disposing of his body in order to let his loved ones believe that he just ran away.

Levi tricks Maxine into confronting the truth about her Munchausen’s but she cannot accept it.  Instead, she returns home and tells Damon that they have found a tumour on her spine and she only has six months left to live.  He goes against her wishes to keep things secret and has to share his pain with Brody who tells Sienna.  This has a knock on effect on her Hen Do, as her friends are too sad to celebrate.

Cleo is jealous of the way women are attracted to Mitchell when he strips.  There is a connection between Prince and Peri.  Sienna brings Liberty in on her plan to snatch ‘her’ children. 

Home and Away

Mackenzie reveals to Dean that she is his sister.  Bella notices that Colby is interested in Mackenzie and opts not to move in with him while Irene is away as she doesn’t want to get in the way of a budding romance.  He persuades her otherwise and she agrees until Tommy, her online friend convinces her that she would damage her relationship with Colby again if they lived together.

Jasmine is keen to get to know Robbo’s family.  Tori gets confirmation that she could lose the baby or go into early labour but keeps the news from Jasmine and Robbo, not wanting to ruin their wedding plans.  She decides on an operation to minimise the risk.

Ben is still struggling with the surfboard order.  Mason is frustrated at work, in a job he doesn’t want to do.  Roo is frustrated with Ryder for not prioritising his school work.  Noticing how lonely Marilyn is without John, Raffy decides to move back in with her.  Refusing to listen to anyone about rushing around between Summer Bay and the city, John ends up falling asleep at the wheel and crashing his car. 

Neighbours

The DNA test reveals that Dee and Andrea are identical twins but Heather cannot remember giving birth to two babies.  Heather goes under hypnosis to get some more clarity over the birth, discovering that she actually gave birth in a women’s refuge.

It’s the Batchelor Auction, which Paul is using as yet another way of pushing Kyle and Amy together.  It works as afterwards, Amy finally crumbles and admits to Kyle that she still loves him.  However, when Kyle realises that Paul and Sheila have been scheming all along to break Amy and Gary up, he is honest and tells Amy the truth.  Chloe manages to bid for Pierce in an attempt to make things right with him but he is not impressed.  Bea and Finn decide to make a go of things – in secret.

Paul gives Harlow a letter he wrote to her father but never sent, which tells her everything she needs to know about Robert and everything that happened in the past.  Paul and Terese get engaged, enraging Roxy who makes a clumsy pass at him.  Paul pushes her roughly away and she decides to leave town.  Sheila confesses her meddling crimes to Gary, who is furious and rages at Paul for trying to break him and Amy at.  Later, Paul is attacked and left for dead.  Roxy finds him unconscious and he is rushed to hospital.  When he wakes up, he accuses Gary of attacking him and Roxy later claims that she saw Gary at the scene.

Soap Blog: 15th – 21st July 2019

Coronation Street

Eileen challenges Jan about his criminal history.  Roy is struggling with his electrics and has to close the café and move out of the flat.  He ends up moving in with Tyrone and Evelyn while Carla and Peter return to Ken’s.  Maria endures a very awkward date but Ali swoops in and saves her.

Nick finds a photograph that could prove his innocence but although they re-interview Beth, the police don’t think it’s enough to rule him out yet.  Sarah is suspicious of Gary who is further concerned when Sharon, Rick’s sidekick turns up, asking questions.  With no options left, Gary confesses most of the story of the roof collapse to Imran.  Beth is annoyed when her colleagues agree with Sarah to forfeit their bonuses in order to keep the factory going.

(Doctors is on a summer break)

Eastenders

Gray and Chantelle are back to normal in public.  Rainie is befriended by a suave gentleman who robs her of all Jack’s cash!  Jack desperately needs to make enough money to pay the builders by the end of the week.  When he tries to make a quick sale of the flat to Adam, he is suspicious to find Habiba and Adam both half dressed in the flat.  However, he has bigger worries when he finds himself in trouble for his assault on Tiffany’s rapist and asks Denise to be his alibi.  But when he can’t explain why he needs one, not wanting to break Tiffany’s confidence, she refuses and breaks up with him.  Jack is then arrested and taken to the police station, devastating Tiffany.  After his release, Tiffany attempts to bring Jack and Denise back together.  At rock bottom, Rainie returns to prostitution but is rescued by Stuart when things get violent.

Phil decides to include Keanu in his will and cut Ben out of it – again!  He also becomes suspicious of Stacey and her spending and enlists Shirley’s help to find out exactly what the Slaters have done with his money.  She persuades the Slaters to return the cash on the promise of no consequences.

Emmerdale

Victoria is shaken when Lee makes an official demand for a paternity test once the baby is born.  She is confident that he has to be able to find her first.  Robert enlists Dawn’s help in bring Lee down.  However, Robert and Aaron have to try and save Dawn when she ends up in danger with Lee and they have a serious near miss, leaving Lee with the upper hand again.  Dawn has a successful meeting with her son until some of Lee’s pills fall out of her pocket.  Harriet grabs them before Lucas can do anything with them and before the social worker sees but Harriet is furious with Dawn for putting her in such a situation.  Lydia’s story is all over the paper thanks to Dawn and she attempts to run away.

Desperate to keep her, Sam tracks her down at the site of her baby’s grave, comforting her and supporting her.  Most of the villagers are supportive of Lydia apart from obnoxious Nicola who mouths off in the pub.  Lydia is brave and strong and manages to put her in her place.

Jacob supports David for a check-up at the hospital.  Bernice convinces herself that Liam is a serial killer only to discover in one of the most ridiculous scenes soap has ever produced, that he is actually a murder mystery enthusiast.  Hurt that she could think such an awful thing of him, Liam breaks up with her.  At their engagement party, Pete and Rhona finally accept that they want different things and they don’t belong together.  Doug starts using cannabis to ease his back pain.

Hollyoaks

Having spent £7,000 of Maxine’s charity fund on the wedding venue of Maxine’s dreams, lying that he got the money from his Dad but kept it secret considering what he Dad had done to Brody and Ollie.  When they get to the venue, Maxine is thrilled but upon discovering that the £7,000 was only a deposit and they need another seven to pay it off, she fakes a seizure.  Moved, the owner of the venue offers to waive the rest of the fee but Damon has called the wedding off as he is so worried about his fiancée.  But while Maxine quickly calls the venue back, Damon is busy getting Doctor Levi back on her case.  Meanwhile, Grace puts her foot in it by suggesting to Damon that perhaps Maxine faked her seizure.  Outside the venue, Sienna is convinced she has spotted her baby twins.  Goldie and Joel pretend to remain platonic.

Liam dates Cindy in a bid to make Mercedes jealous but she soon cottons on.  Harry kisses Ste but finally knows once and for all that it’s James he wants to be with.  He returns home and tells James the whole truth.  The news is not met well.  Tony confides in Breda about being a bad father.

On the first day of summer, the whole of Hollyoaks is celebrating and Mercedes and Liam are very much back on.  Grace is attracted to Sylver.  Tom’s Turtles opens.

Home and Away

New girl, Mackenzie Booth arrives, introducing herself as the new owner of Salt.  After some meddling from Leah and Maggie, Ben and Justin finally make peace.  Ziggy becomes suspicious of Dean when she catches him making secret phone calls and also discovers a stash of cash in his van.  It soon transpires that he has been trying to arrange extra business for Ben’s Boards, which has worked – he and her father are now overwhelmed with work!  And the money came from his Dad who doesn’t want him and was trying to keep him quiet and away from his new family.

Tori is worried after she is called back into the hospital following her twenty week scan.  She, Robbo and Jasmine learn that she is at risk of losing the baby due to having a short cervix.  Robbo does not take the news well.  When the stress of the news prompts Raffy to have another seizure, Mason nearly risks buying more cannabis.  However, Raffy is then put onto the CBD trial.

John isn’t coping with splitting his time between Summer Bay and looking after Jett in the city.  Bella makes a new ‘friend’ online called Tommy.

Neighbours

Roxy makes up a lie about David and Aaron fostering a child, to get them out of telling the truth about Robert but she and Leo are eager to find out more about Paul’s jailed son.  When Paul decides to be supportive of the fostering plan, Leo confesses the truth about David’s real plans.  In panic, Paul rushes off to stop David from meeting Robert.  He bursts in on them, prompting Robert to walk out of the meeting.  They then meet Harlow, Robert’s long lost daughter, who lives with her mother in the UK and has recently got in touch with her father, wanting to know more about him.  David and Aaron welcome her into her home where she is keen to get to know her family, including Paul.  When she bonds with Terese, Roxy is jealous.

Yashvi’s dead street artist tour goes wrong when she gives overdramatic misinformation about Kate, prompting Kyle to storm off.  Then when another tour guest realises who Finn is and gets overexcited, he rushes off too.  This prompts Yashvi to get the idea for a Dark Tour, inviting a specific group of people to visit locations around Erinsborough where Finn Kelly committed his crimes.  However, things go too far when one participant breaks into the Kennedy house and scares Bea.  Finn rescues her but things gets physical, which could potentially get Finn into trouble, although he didn’t really do anything wrong.  Finn and Bea grow closer.

When Heather begs to see Toadie, Dipi and Susan visit her to give her a piece of their minds!  Meanwhile, Toadie and Dee decide to spend some time together after all.  Dee and Andrea take a DNA test.