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Welcome! Issue 30 23 – 29 July 2022 tYhoiusrwsteaerks! Deciding how to end a soap with Fallon Carrington seemingly is no small responsibility, abducted by aliens. The final 40 and one that has been (so far) incarnation of Crossroads tackled by production teams in saw Jane Asher snap awake and Laura Norton very different ways. Family Affairs, declare the whole thing a dream. for example, left us with the happy Happily, such contemptuous “No matter how happy tableau of the cast singing Auld whimsy is not for Neighbours, Kerry is, she will never Lang Syne. They genuinely who we knew would do right by its fans. It ends gain style!” “Ending a soap is nothought some of their, um, popular characters might small responsibility” with a huge party, and the 44 spin-off into their own best possible guest list. drama series, you see. (Spoiler: they didn’t.) It’s a celebration of the jubilant community Sally Dynevor But while some producers steer their ship ethos of the show – the perfect blend, in fact. gently into harbour, others drive it straight And, happily, there’s not an alien in sight. “I love that people at the rocks. US soap The Colbys ended identify with Sally Gary Gillatt, Exec Editor and Tim…” sTthoeriBesIG... Kevin! Have you been drinking 46 Coronation Street brake fluid again? Emma Barton 8 Furious Kevin on the rampage! Yes. But I can 18 Stu’s happy reunion with Bridget? stop any time “Prince Charles said to 26 Debbie’s shock proposal for Ryan me, ‘You need to get in 27 Audrey suffers overdose horror! I want to a bath full of whiskey!’” 28 Tough love for poor Summer… 31 Hope’s online gaming mystery 8 57 44 Tim’s casino night gamble… YAODUDRUSSHTOOP! .m..aonred! Don’t forget, 14 Inside Gossip BlaNcikamshhaw EastEnders you can have 32 What Happens lnsideSoap When? “Juliet acts on impulse 12 Ash & Suki: Eve finds herself delivered along and feeling…” with your 34 Classic Scoop caught up in a family affair! online shop from 36 Soapbox lnsideSoap 3 49 The Inside Soap 22 Furious Zack punches Ben: the following supermarkets… Awards 2022: Cast it’s fight night at Peggy’s! your vote now! 31 Karen enlists Callum’s help 58 Style watch 46 Jay & Honey hit the rocks… 92 Puzzles saSvecoRtatm&sCaFIhNyAaLSErRtlEerVEenAeeLEDt!! TV7W-DITAHY 95 Who’s Who? Emmerdale GUIDE! 10 Chas & Al caught out by Kerry? 20 Wicked Sandra seduces Rishi! WEDCDRIANSGHERS!AresLhtFuorIcnEk!’S bKWigahtdo&a’lySPl?whHlierlA’tesCcgRakonO? N 96 The Hot List 24 Amelia & Noah’s secret revealed 98 Hits & Misses 29 Kim makes Lydia wedding planner RlfaoagsmiensiglhyKi?sev 31 Jealous Jai struggles to cope! CBACYUHKGAEHSRT&ROYAU?LT PRINODPEOCSEANLTS! 40 Kerry’s decade in the Dales… Surface Hollyoaks 7DOG-IDNUGA-IIDDTYEAEML A&ND TV &ALClyloisnmonpnGilJeiobdnsboeysn An eight-part 16 Did DeMarcus attack Saul? psychological 28 Tony tries to impress Shaq… OPWFiETcEHkKE! thriller drops on PHOTOS: GETTY 29 Imran’s romance in jeopardy! 57 Tough times ahead for Juliet BRNEEAWKINSGawFaakleseninRPgTEOHPWIOSER8RT0EPsCoRL-apSAAiEnYNnTvBDiaoDEAsnRTWASTMEAEARNENXAEANPWdLAROrSMeRuAnBEsNasISTCilaTIiHOnHOeUERS…THE NEWSREADER | BBC2 SUNDAY Apple TV+! Turn to p59… Home and Away 29 Has Nikau forgotten about Bella? 56 Mac faces up to life in prison… Neighbours 4 Toadie & Mel tie the knot in Neighbours’ final-ever episode – featuring many familiar faces! 54 Inside Soap exclusive interviews: Takaya Honda & Matt Wilson (who play David & Aaron) Morning star THIS MORNING JOEELXYHCEIBTITT:ISOUNMISMTER THE GREAT SURFACE
THE FINALE! Channel 5 FRIDAY KYLIE AND JASON ARE HERE – FOR THE ULTIMATE SOAP SEND-OFF… N eighbours ends greatest need but beloved for good this week ex-residents Charlene and (sob!), and there’s Scott… Are they here to make huge drama a purchase and save their old ahead as we homes for future generations hurtle towards the epic last of Ramsays and Robinsons? episode – when Ramsay Street goes up for sale! “Change is definitely in the air on Ramsay Street!” begins Horrified at the thought of our Neighbours insider. “One saying farewell to their friends, by one, and for all sorts of the Kennedys stand firm as different reasons, the owners the only residents refusing to of each house have decided move. Can they save the street to leave to make fresh starts before the homes go under elsewhere. But when Karl and the hammer at an auction? Susan see the street full of ‘For Sale’ signs and realise all their And if that isn’t drama much-loved neighbours are enough, who should rock up selling up at the same time, at the hour of Erinsborough’s they’re devastated. Is this really the end?” Could Scott and Charlene be Adding to the emotions, Harold hands Susan and Ramsay Street’s Karl the Ramsay Street history last hope? book he started years ago, and with current custodians Toadie and Mel among those moving away, he asks Mr Back to save Ramsay Street! 4 lnsideSoap
Susan and Karl are devastated when all the neighbouring houses go up for sale and Mrs Kennedy to take swan song is charge of the tome. the return of iconic couple Scott and Charlene. While Susan is touched by the gesture, it also makes her Producers have scored struggle even more to know a sensational coup in she and Karl may soon be the persuading Jason Donovan last two standing – and they’re and Kylie Minogue, who determined not to let that became international happen! While they plot a megastars after playing way of preventing the collapse the perfect pair, to come of their entire community, it back to where it all began… appears there is more to this situation than meets the eye… “Driving into Ramsay Street again was quite something!” “How Neighbours ends is beams Kylie. “Being face obviously a closely guarded to face with people I hadn’t secret,” whispers our spy. seen for over 30 years and “But there are lots of hints saying, ‘Wow, this is part of about the ultimate fate of our history,’ was great.” Ramsay Street itself. The ‘For Sale’ boards all show the “It was emotional going estate agent contact is none back,” agrees Jason. “You other than Paige Smith, Brad never know the value of a and Lauren’s daughter who moment until it becomes a is one of the many old faces memory. I won’t spoil what back for the finale. What’s she happens for the fans, but there got to do with it? Is it really is a bit of denim involved…!” a coincidence the properties are being vacated at the same Rumours abound that Scott time? It could be linked and Charlene are in the last to original resident Shane ever scene, but why have they Ramsay returning with a come home? Could they be shady plan, which minxy Izzy revealed as the surprise new Hoyland gets embroiled in. owners of Ramsay Street? There are huge twists and Johnathon Hughes turns planned in the final CONTINUED OVER↘ week, and it feels only right that the iconic The finale street should be at the has surprises in centre of the action!” Of course, the store for fa↘ns icing on the cake for Neighbours’ much-anticipated lnsideSoap 5
THE FINALE! The wedding is a happy moment Will the childhood Mike for everyone on sweethearts returns the street rekindle their romance? E ven as tears are shed by Neighbours fans WILL CLIVE GET DUMPED WHEN across the world for HER FIRST LOVE RETURNS? the show’s grand finale, the residents of A mong the familiar What has Mike been family for years and Erinsborough are leaving faces returning up to since 1989? our screens with smiles is Mike Young, I suggested we have on their faces, thanks to former troubled Toadie and Melanie tying teen and Jane’s first love! He moved to Perth and some scenes together. the knot with a big-old Ramsay Street knees up! The sweethearts are became a teacher, we learn thrilled to be reunited, but he has a daughter and they What did you learn from “The whole idea is really jealousy grips Jane’s current have moved back to your time on Neighbours? cute!” explains Lucinda squeeze Clive and he and Cowden, who plays Mel. Mike end up brawling! Erinsborough. I feel super-lucky to have “Toadie and Mel split the day in two, so the other one Over 30 years since he Was it nice to got on the show when doesn’t know what they have was last in Erinsborough, planned. Toadie organises star Guy Pearce reveals see some old I did, I’d just turned the wedding and Melanie’s how it felt to be back… responsible for the reception. cast mates? 18. It taught me The wedding is at the lake, Hi, Guy! Was it nice to be so they’re honouring Sonya, part of the last episode? immeasurable and it’s also where they had Hendrix’s memorial. It’s I’m very nostalgic so I’ve It’s lovely to be qualities and beautiful and they arrive in always wanted to step back cool vintage cars. I won’t on to the show at some working with benefits, tell you about the reception stage. With the sad news – but there are pigs involved!” it was finishing, it seemed the likes of Guy shared and gave me like the appropriate time, scenes with Everyone from Ramsay and I was planning a trip Henrietta Street celebrates with the home to Australia anyway happy couple, along with lots so it all worked. of familiar faces that we haven’t seen in a long time… Mike and Clive end up fighting Stefan Dennis confidence. over Jane! [Paul], Annie Jones [Jane] and Do people still ask you about it? Paul Keane [Des]. I see Jason Donovan [Scott] all Kate Winslet is a good the time, we still call each friend and was apparently other Scott and Mike! besotted with Mike back in Did you work with the day. When I told her any current cast? I was coming back she was literally wetting herself! Only Henrietta Graham Was it hard to get back [Sam], I’ve known her into character? I had to trawl through my memory to understand who Mike is now, and how I might play him. They still had his old motorcycle gloves which have been in a box since 1987, so that helped reconnect with him! 6 lnsideSoap
Recent returnee Toadie David and Aaron Howard watches & Mel’s share in the couple’s delight on with Karl Kyle and Roxy Toadie’s son Callum are back in is back to see his Erinsborough for dad get married the celebrations AND THERE’S A HOST OF FAMILIAR GUESTS… Will Mel “Ryan [Moloney, aka Toadie] love for Toadie! Could her “They love each other very and Toadie’s and I top and tail Neighbours,” return lead to chaos? much and that’s the best way wedding day go points out Lucinda. “So it’s to start a marriage. without a hitch? the best reason to get lots “Melanie mostly feels sorry of people back from different for Amy,” reveals Lucinda. “When I came back, I was times of the show. Toadie’s “She believes Amy’s confused only offered a few episodes, son, Callum, returns to see his about how she feels. A lot of so I can’t believe that I’m dad get married and he’s very bad things happened to Amy still here a year-and-a -half supportive – so I had the joy at once, and she didn’t know later,” laughs Lucinda. “And of working with Morgan where to turn. But Melanie isn’t I can’t believe the show is [Baker, who plays him]. It was a person who judges others.” finishing with my wedding – fantastic to see the others too, I’m incredibly grateful. And like Peter O’Brien [aka Shane While we won’t be able to I got to bag the Toad!” Ramsay] and Guy Pearce see what the future holds [Mike Young], who are such for Toadie, Melanie, Nell Alice Penwill good friends of mine.” and Hugo, Lucinda believes they’ll be Turn to p54, Their path to the altar together for a long where stars is not without its bumps, time to come. Matt Wilson and however – chief among them Takaya Honda is Amy, who left Erinsborough “Wherever they celebrate David after declaring her undying go, I want them to and Aaron… be together, and happy,” she grins. lnsideSoap 7
INSIDE SCOOP CORONATION STREET | ITV WEDNESDAY Kevin raomnptahgee! A MOMENT OF MADNESS THREATENS TO WRECK HIS FUTURE WITH ABI… 8 lnsideSoap
Arrogant Stephen “Kevin hasn’t really noticed shares Michael. “For the scene demands his car be what is going on with Jack; he I got to batter a wing mirror, fixed… and it tips Kev over the edge thinks he’s still happy about although I wasn’t allowed to This is the moment Abi and Alfie coming to live do the windscreen myself. that Kevin suddenly flips and goes berserk with them,” reveals Michael. I should point out that Kevin – arming himself with a wrench and smashing up “It isn’t so much that Jack was only smashing things Stephen’s flash motor! doesn’t want them there, he that he knew he could fix!” It’s unlike calm Kev to lose his cool, but as the pressure of just wants a bit of his dad’s It’s not just the physical Abi’s homecoming with baby Alfie collides with drama for time, but Kev is oblivious to it.” damage Kev should be worried Kev’s son Jack, the mechanic struggles to cope – and snaps… As tempers flare at home, about, though, after Stephen “Kevin has been trying Kevin is under the cosh at reports him to the police – and to spin too many plates,” explains Michael Le Vell, who work – prompting his the mess threatens to scupper plays him. “The garage is busy, he’s been up all night apprentice Aaron to take on Abi’s homecoming with Alfie! painting Alfie’s nursery – and then arrogant Stephen comes the repairs for Stephen’s car. “Two officers knock on in demanding his car be fixed. Kev also needs to be at Jack’s “Police knockBut when Kevin’s door school for a presentation, and it’s and his son is playing up.” Audrey’s son on Kevin’s doorreturns, his worst In the lead-up to Kev losing nightmare,” his cool, a situation with Jack furious that threatens to derail their happy his car has – it’s his worst sighs Michael. home. After discovering that broken down, nightmare” “He’s terrified he was conceived as a result the job falls that social of Kevin’s affair with Tyrone’s back on Kev. services will late wife, Molly, Jack hasn’t been handling the news well However, Kevin is in the say this isn’t the right sort of – and after some lads at school bully him over it, Jack process of juggling a million environment for Abi and Alfie sees red and punches a fellow pupil! Meanwhile, as Kevin things – and when Stephen to move into. Kev wants to focuses on Abi’s return, Jack proceeds to accuse his father threatens to take his business try and make it all go away of neglecting him. elsewhere, poor Kev explodes. without Abi or social “He’s been through so services finding out.” much, the red mist descends Will a moment of madness – I think it’s great to show him spell the end for their future? having a reaction to it all,” Laura-Jayne Tyler Kev is called into & CCKOARERLEIMEPON! school when son Jack punches a Mike wants Kev and Abi to settle down… fellow pupil! After nearly 40 years of fighting, family dramas and fixing several hundred fan belts, Michael has seen and done it all on the cobbles… “It has been fantastic to be at the centre of the drama,” reflects the star, who joined the Street in 1983. “Though it would be nice to see Abi, Kevin, Jack and Alfie have the happiness they deserve, and with a bit of breathing space in this blended family they have. They do love each other so much, and they are determined to make it work and be happy. But with all the things Abi and Kev have to deal with, life is never going to be dull!” lnsideSoap 9
INSIDE SCOOP Al has booked himself EMMERDALE | ITV THURSDAY in for some hotel Chas & Al hanky-panky with Chas caught out by Kerry? THE FLING LOOKS SET TO BE EXPOSED… C has and Al’s illicit brash beautician. “He doesn’t the village. Chloe later Kerry – who then schemes affair is on the verge seem to want to spend much casually mentions that she a wily way to reignite the sexy of being discovered time with her, which makes her saw Al in the pub, confusing spark that’s been missing… this week, when paranoid their relationship is Kerry further and making Kerry follows her fella to getting stale. Her insecurities her question why he told “She decides to mix the hotel where the pair make Kerry feel that she’s not her that he wasn’t around business with pleasure, and are having a lusty liaison! good enough for him.” for some amorous action. rock up at this hotel dressed as a saucy secretary for a bit With the buff businessman’s Kerry attempts to get her Having overheard Al of role-play!” laughs Laura. actions becoming increasingly guy to herself, only to be let discussing the location of “She thinks she’s on to a suspicious, Kerry convinces down as Al says that he has a his supposed appointment, winner! But she waits around herself that he’s hiding business meeting away from Chloe passes the info on to and asks at reception and something and she confronts they’ve no record of anyone him – is the game up? KHeerrriynsfeeeclusrhiteie’ssnmoat ke called Al Chapman booked in good enough for Al” for a business meeting…” “Al’s been away, and when he gets back things don’t What she doesn’t realise is seem right to Kerry,” reveals that her boyfriend is enjoying Laura Norton, who plays the some daytime delight with 10 lnsideSoap
Back in the village, CARRY ON Al can’t resist meeting up with Chas again CHEATING! Laura explains why she wants mistress Chas upstairs – things that are right in front of the affair to continue… and when the secret lovers her,” explains Laura. “But Al’s sneak out, Al is horrified to see lies all start to mount up. Kerry Fans may well be calling for Kerry to Kerry lurking in the lobby! goes from nought to 60, and rumble Al – which could happen this is ready for a confrontation.” week – but Laura reckons there’s more Frightened his infidelity has to be milked from this sizzling story. been found out, Al scarpers Back in the village, with his bit on the side, praying incandescent Kerry corners Al “Affairs are more believable when they’ve dodged detection. and demands an explanation. they play out for longer and I’m enjoying Meanwhile, Kerry spirals as she Will Al be forced to come clean, the different dynamics between all the puts the pieces together… or can he talk his way out of characters,” she says. “Kerry feels sorry his girlfriend’s accusations? for Chas because of what her mum’s “She’s trying to pretend going through, which adds to Chas’s guilt. she’s not feeling and seeing Johnathon Hughes Kerry has genuinely fallen for Al and feels more for him than he does for her. And they’re writing lovely stuff for Paddy and Kerry, who are oblivious. “I know it can’t go on forever but it’s not just a random fling, they have their reasons for seeking comfort. You feel for all four of them. But if it ends up in a scrap between Kerry and Chas that will be great too!” Turn to p40 as Laura celebrates 10 years of Kerry! Kerry has been putting the pieces together – but what does she know? lnsideSoap 11
INSIDE SCOOP Ash is confused when Eve friend-zones her EASTENDERS | BBC1 MONDAY Walford’s juicy family affair! ASH FANCIES EVE – BUT SHE’S BUSY SNOGGING SUKI… T he sexual tension froths our Square insider. between Eve and “The best thing about it is Suki leads to another that Suki is determined not kiss this week – to give in to this attraction with the added twist of with Eve, but if Eve were to Eve turning down a smooch hook up with her daughter, with Suki’s daughter, Ash! Suki would be furious!” Eve can sense that she At the start of the week, and Suki share a romantic the Panesars prepare for The pair find themselves bar of it,” tattles our mole. in McKlunky’s – and while “The atmosphere is frosty, connection, the launch the chicken shop isn’t a to say the least, after Eve of their new place that springs to mind arrives for the grand opening “The potentialdespite steely for a first date, the waft of of the doctors’ surgery to Suki slapping GP practice. the deep fat fryer seems to be greeted by cold and However, serve as an aphrodisiac! standoffish Suki. She just for drama andher when Eve doesn’t know where she made a move scandal is off family politics Suki and Eve bond over stands with this woman!” recently. Yet the scale” threaten to music, prompting Suki to invite when the overshadow Eve back to her place, where When Suki and Eve manage chemistry the occasion she plants a kiss. Yet when the to grab a moment alone, Eve pair face each other the next is heartbroken to realise that between the pair bubbles – with Ash taking a frustrating morning, Suki shuts Eve down. Suki will never want to go public with their relationship. to the surface again, Suki phone call that leaves Vinny “Eve’s buzzing after their However, someone who is kiss, but Suki’s not having a is unable to resist… intrigued. Meanwhile, Eve “The potential for drama hasn’t given up on Suki, and and scandal is off the scale; offers her support following Eve is a lady in demand!” the events of the day. 12 lnsideSoap
Suki is wrapped smooch with Ash. Will the up in the opening moment prompt Suki to be of the new GP out and proud with her surgery feelings? Or will further rejection from Suki push Eve wind up at Walford East into the arms of her daughter? together. But, who do you think is sitting across the Laura-Jayne Tyler way, watching their every move? Suki, of course!” Eve stays true to herself and gently backs out of the Eve can’t PSEFATOKERE’S! understand why Suki is being so Suki and Ash can’t help cold after their kiss who they fall for… comfortable in her own skin she innocently asks her mum’s While Ash will insist that she and is Ash – and she takes a new ‘friend’ out on a date. Suki are polar opposites, this is shine to Eve following a tricky the second time they’ve been situation involving a journalist “Eve’s reaction is to put attracted to the same person! at the practice launch. Of Ash in the friend zone,” course, Ash has absolutely reveals our spy. “Except Ash was dating Peter when Suki no idea what is going on Ash refuses to be put off first seduced him – and the fling between Eve and Suki, so so easily, and moves in for went undiscovered until Ash and a kiss after she and Eve Kheerat rumbled the pair following a second romp last year. The situation is reversed this time, with Suki being the first of the Panesar ladies to fall for Eve – but could the reveal of her mum’s latest affair tip Ash over the edge? lnsideSoap 13
INSIDE Laura-Jayne snoops behind the big soap headlines… EASTENDERS ALFIE BMIOGONR’S ET W alford favourite has the answers to Plenty of mischief, say Walford He’s back! Alfie Moon will your burning questions… chiefs… “A lot has happened To stop Kat make an epic since Alfie’s been away from and Phil’s return – just as the love First things first: when the Square, but wherever his wedding? of his life Kat prepares did we last see Alfie floral shirts go you can expect to marry Phil Mitchell! – and why is he back? fun, frolics and, of course, the Good question! Alfie’s odd porky-pie,” grins boss “EastEnders bosses are marriage to Kat broke down Chris Clenshaw. “We’re over clearly pulling out all the in 2018 after she found out the moon to have him home.” stops to give viewers a that he was the father of her blockbuster autumn, with cousin Hayley’s baby. Alfie How do you know that Kat and Phil’s nuptials then conned Phil out of £50k Alfie’s return will collide shaping up to be the and left the money under a with Phil and Kat’s wedding of the decade,” mattress for Kat to find. She wedding day? grins our Square insider. returned the dosh to Phil – Well, Alfie’s comeback is “Alfie’s reappearance is who’ll be baying for Alfie’s scheduled for the autumn, sure to throw a spanner blood if he claps eyes on him! while Kat and Phil have in the works, while Phil’s set a wedding date for soulmate Sharon could So, are Alfie and Kat 12 September. The timing also be poised to storm still in touch? couldn’t be better if you’re the ceremony. But It would seem an EastEnders viewer, or who will end not, judging by worse if you’re the bride up with who? the recent call and groom! Inside Soap between young Tommy and his What can we expect …who is in dad. Alfie has no in the lead-up? the dark idea that Kat and The celebrations get about Kat Phil are an item, underway as early as and Phil! and still thinks that this week, with the she’s shacked up Slaters organising a pre- Tommy had with Kush (RIP). wedding party for Kat. a recent call “Invitations are being with dad Alfie… So, what can we expect sent far and wide as from his return? Kat is trying on frocks – 14 lnsideSoap
ETURN! Could Sharon steal Has Phil Phil away from finally found love rival Kat? his happily- ever-after? Phil and Kat are finally official now but the sweetest moment Yes, what about Grant? a heartbeat,” continues he’s put a ring on it! of all comes as Phil our spy. “Something tells takes his bride aside to Could he be set to rock up? you that a toss of her long finally put a ring on it,” There’s been no official blonde hair and a flutter gushes our mole. “The confirmation, but the fleeting of those come-to-bed engagement is official!” mentions of him recently have eyelashes is all it’d take…” given us cause to wonder! Is Kat really the one How far might Alfie and So what more can for Phil, though? He Sharon go to win back you tell us? If you’re a loyal EastEnders still loves Sharon! their soul mates? viewer, we advise you to get We think Phil genuinely “In 2003, Alfie crashed Kat’s yourself down the shops loves them both. It wedding to gangster Andy and buy a big hat for the looked as though he was Hunter and got beaten up wedding of the year! And if gravitating towards Sharon for his trouble,” our source you’re new to the Square recently after she declared reminds us. “But true love – or dipping your toe back her love and they kissed conquered all in the end… into Walford life again, this is – but the sight of his brother, “Meanwhile, Sharon has one sizzling storyline you’re Grant, calling Sharon’s already declared war on Kat, not going to want to miss… phone sent Phil running warning her love rival that back into the arms of Kat! she can have Phil back in Roll on September! lnsideSoap 15
Can DeMarcus HOLLYOAKS | Channel 4 MONDAY prove that he’s not Did DeMarcus the guilty man? attack Saul? HE FINDS HIMSELF IN THE FRAME FOR THE RECENT STABBING… It’s an emotional week Hi Garcia! How is the So how is Zoe feeling Does Zoe believe DeMarcus for everyone in the investigation going so far? about it all? could be guilty? village as they all try to get their heads The police don’t know much at She’s stressed. One day is Zoe’s heart tells her that it’s around the knife attack all. They’re talking to who was a high and the next is a low – not him because she knows on Saul. Hit hardest are there at the time and trying to and it just carries on and on. DeMarcus and loves him like the Westwood family – find out what happened. But So many people are involved a member of her family. especially when evidence a lot of people who were that she loves and cares There’s also no doubt in Felix’s for the offence begins to involved aren’t speaking up, about, but on different sides of mind that DeMarcus didn’t point to DeMarcus! so it’s hard for the police. it. It’s a lot to deal with and do it, and the same with Pearl, Zoe’s trying to be a detective she’s trying to balance her she knows he would never Garcia Brown, who plays but has no pieces of the work life alongside her family hurt anyone – that wouldn’t PC Zoe Anderson, talks puzzle to work with. and romance as well. stand up in court, though. us through her alter ego’s predicament as she struggles about DeMarcus” Then DeMarcus attempts to balance her two lives in to flee the village – what’s the village – as a police Zoe’s advice to him? officer, and also a close friend of DeMarcus… Not to go! If DeMarcus wants to prove his innocence, then 16 lnsideSoap
Saul is hospitalised after the vicious attack himself – but Zoe is very other, but every time she tries determined to do everything to end it, she doesn’t go by the book, and the law. through with it. And I think Zoe is going to prove herself Is there lots of drama to a lot of people in terms to come for Zoe? of how capable she is as a police officer, and that she Yes, she might get herself into can get the result she wants a bit of trouble in terms of her in the right way. relationship with Sam. They shouldn’t be seeing each Alice Penwill Pearl, Zoe and Felix INOTFHDEULTIYNE are convinced that CoounldthZeoehibtelisnte?xt DeMarcus isn’t guilty Following Saul’s stabbing, he can’t leave, that will only I think she does. But I’m it’s no wonder that Garcia is make him look guilty. But it’s also wondering if she’ll get worried for Zoe’s wellbeing – easy for Zoe to say because to a breaking point. Zoe given that most Hollyoaks DeMarcus is the centre of definitely has the necessary coppers leave the village attention, people are watching drive, but there’s a lot in a body bag… and whispering about him. of pressure on her. And to make it worse, Felix “I’m very Does Zoe have what it wants to go out and prove concerned!” she takes to find out the truth? DeMarcus is innocent laughs. “She’s already received a death threat from Sienna. I’m hoping she sticks around because Zoe’s one of the few good eggs in the police force. And it’s fun for me because I cross paths with everyone on the show – usually when they’re arrested!” lnsideSoap 17
INSIDE SCOOP Stu begs Bridget for a second chance, but it doesn’t go to plan! CORONATION STREET | ITV MONDAY Stu finds his daughter! BUT WILL THEIR LONG-AWAITED REUNION BE A HAPPY ONE? It’s a huge moment for horrified to see him and Stu this week, when he demands that he leaves knocks on his long-lost immediately!” explains our daughter’s door and begs Street insider. “Whatever has for the chance to reconcile. happened between them, Although he is furious with Bridget seems genuinely Yasmeen for playing detective scared of her dad, and it and tracing daughter Bridget’s breaks Stu’s heart. It doesn’t address, Stu decides to take matter how much he begs, a chance. It’s Bridget won’t When Stu returns to hear him out. Weatherfield, he lies to “Bridget seemsKelly who Yasmeen about what went convinces him genuinely She wants on at Bridget’s house and that it’s never scared of him gone.” tells her that the address her dad!” was wrong. It raises the too late to try Worryingly, question of why he can’t be again, and that Stu’s pleas truthful about the situation. he needs to include him grab this swearing But despite their fall-out, Yasmeen quickly forgives opportunity. However, when that he never hurt anyone, a Stu once he apologises for snapping at her. Not only that, the errant father knocks on the detail he’s never touched on but when Stephen tries to flirt with her in front of him, she door, Bridget’s reaction isn’t with Yasmeen. Given her Yasmeen forgives Stu, and they seem what he was hoping for. history with abusive men, it’d closer than ever “It’s a really tough moment be terrible if she finds herself for Stu, because Bridget is close to another one. 18 lnsideSoap
Yasmeen shuts Stephen down when he tries to flirt with her actually a devil in disguise. be honest with those who care Something very disturbing for him – especially Yasmeen.” happened in his past, and his own daughter can’t bear to be Can Stu find the courage around him. Stu needs to start to be truthful about Bridget, his repairing that relationship and past and what went wrong? Kate White FOOD HEROES! tells Stu that she only has Weatherfield’s kind-hearted food eyes for him. Her confession providers decide to club together to moves their relationship help local people in need this week, by to a different level, and it selling leftover food at low prices. looks as if the happiness that has eluded them Stu hits upon the idea of the caring scheme after could be on the cards. a visit from his friend Glen, who has fallen on hard “There’s a real spark times. Yasmeen’s heart bursts when she sees Stu between these two, pay for a hot meal for his pal, and she’s incredibly and they could have proud as he later suggests a way to help more a bright future together,” people. He calls Dev, Billy, Chesney and Nina to a meeting to discuss his plan, and they all love the muses our gossip. “That’s idea of doing good with the leftover food at Roy’s unless Stu has been putting Rolls, Prima Doner, and For Your Fries Only. on a nice-guy act and is Having lived on the streets, and depended on food banks and soup kitchens, Stu knows how important it is to people in need. Can they get this scheme off the ground and become food heroes? lnsideSoap 19
EMMERDALE | ITV MONDAY Rishi! FALL FOR HER DUBIOUS CHARMS? Suspicious Mandy installs a CCTV camera in the salon M oney-grubbing Hi, Joanne! Is it Sandra’s isn’t interested. However, and then creates a fake profile. Sandra sets her plan just to steal from Rishi starts talking about the Later, Rishi goes to meet this sights on wealthy her salon colleagues? fact he’s just got divorced and seemingly perfect woman at Rishi this week, he’s come into some cash. the Woolpack, but of course and attempts to fleece him! Sandra’s whole motivation is Sandra’s ears prick up, and she’s a no-show. And Sandra’s Will he realise what she’s money! She’s lazy and really soon he’s putty in her hands! there waiting to pounce! up to before it’s too late? isn’t bothered about working. So when Sandra sees the tip Is that when Sandra What happens next? It’s clear that no one in the jar, she helps herself – and finds out about Rishi’s We dread to ask… village is safe from Sandra’s doesn’t think twice about it! online dating? plotting, as she tries everything Rishi takes Sandra back to his she can to avoid doing a fair Can you tell us why Sandra Rishi mentions it in passing house. I suspect all the drink day’s work for a fair day’s pay. sets her sights on Rishi? while Sandra’s buttering him Sandra plies him with has Already stealing from the salon up. She smoothly suggests he something to do with that tips jar, Sandra switches up He comes into the salon for a tries a different dating app development! She’s soon her game from petty larceny to treatment and at first Sandra gleefully checking out the outright blackmail – with poor, place and calculating how trusting Rishi as her mark. Sandra’s plotting…” much money Rishi has. He’s the perfect mark, and Rishi We invited star Joanne falls hook, line and sinker Mitchell to tell us more about for Sandra’s plotting. her character’s latest scam… 20 lnsideSoap
Will Rishi’s fat tip money end up in Sandra’s purse? marrying Rishi! It’d be brilliant to take back control of her to see her as the mistress of daughter and she won’t let that place – she’d be terrible! anyone stand in her way. Back at the salon, Sandra Do you think Sandra has spots a hidden camera – underestimated Mandy? is Mandy on to her? I think she might have done! It’s worrying for Sandra. She Sandra knew who Mandy sees Mandy as a very strong, was before coming to the formidable woman who has village, but she doesn’t know a lot of influence over Vinny enough about her yet… and Liv. Sandra’s determined Alice Penwill How does Rishi WGOIRRLLSD’ feel the next morning? Unlike Sandra, Joanne loves her job… Rishi offers Sandra He regrets money to keep quiet “Being at the salon is a great balance for Sandra,” explains the actress. “At home, there’s a lot of everything! Rishi’s about their naughty night emotion, and you see her plotting and scheming. However, with Mandy and Bernice around, you very worried that Does he realise he’s being see a different side to Sandy, as it’s such a fun place to work that we just bounce off each other. one of the family manipulated by her? There’s so much comedy potential there. might spot her. That’s when “I adore working with Lisa Riley, who plays Mandy,” adds Joanna. “She’s an absolute Sandra spins the line that he Rishi starts to suss Sandra dream – we really spark off each other.” supposedly tried to get her out in the morning. Then they lnsideSoap 21 drunk, even though she’s an meet each other again, and alcoholic, and that she’s the Rishi pays her to be quiet. innocent victim in this. She But of course, Sandra doesn’t explains how hard-up she plan on letting it go… is for cash and he offers her Would you like a long-term some money – but Sandra story between the pair? accuses him of treating her like a prostitute! Rishi’s Bhasker [Patel, aka Rishi] and desperate to do anything he I were saying how funny it can to smooth things over. would be if Sandra ended up
The bar staff aren’t happy with their overbearing new boss V iolence erupts EASTENDERS | BBC1 WEDNESDAY at Walford’s new wine bar this week, Zack as Zack loses punches his temper with Ben and throws a punch. Ben! The two men are placed NIGHT AT squarely on a collision course PEGGY’S… after Ben rocks up at Peggy’s and starts to order the staff around, having been installed as co-manager by a desperate Sam. But her decision – the result of a cunning bit of blackmail on Ben’s part – causes mayhem when Ben winds Zack up to the point where he loses control. “It’s an ugly moment that follows some ugly behaviour!” says our Square spy. “There’s no excuse for violence, and Zack should know better. But Ben has to take responsibility, because the way he’s been Zack pleads with Rocky to give him more time to buy back his motor 22 lnsideSoap
carrying on is outrageous, and Zack tells Sam Police later turn he knows what he’s doing by some home up to raid the bar pushing Zack to the brink.” truths about Ben played an ace card, and she The trouble begins when reaches the end of his will have to find a way to keep Ben spies Jonah’s drug dealer, options, Ben won’t let up. him sweet. But when police Tez, handing a suspicious It’s the way he mocks Zack raid the club, it looks like Sam packet to Sam. Once she that provokes the punch.” may have bigger problems… realises that Ben’s on to her, Sam has no choice but to buy Obviously, punching his Kate White his silence – and offering him boss isn’t going to win Zack the co-manager role seems any points at Peggy’s. Sam to be her only solution. looks set to sack him until Zack tells her that he believes Later, Ben takes delight in Ben is dealing at the club. It’s a rocking up to give shocked shocking moment for Sam as staff Chelsea and Zack their she realises that Zack has orders, acting like an idiot. Zack is already at breaking point, having spent the week desperately trying to pull together enough cash to buy back the beloved car he sold to fund Nancy’s dream. After begging Rocky to give him time to find the money before he sells the car to somebody else, the clock is ticking. So it’s the worst possible time for him to be pitted against sarky Ben. “Ben has a streak of cruelty in him that he regularly unleashes on unsuspecting bystanders,” warns our sneak. “He takes great delight in mocking Zack for attempting to get this cash together, even though he can see how much it means to him. When Zack SOMFARLELAVSOOICNE Tormented Ben turns to he’s thrilled to find that Sam drugs again this week, as has her own pet dealer, and he slides deeper into a pit is soon tapping Tez for his of despair. However, when own supply. But after young Ben receives a wake-up call Tommy Moon finds Ben’s from an unexpected source, drugs stash and mocks him will he stop to listen? for it, the lad’s left trembling in the face of Ben’s rage. Given that Ben’s been using for some time now, Later, sensible Tommy tries to appeal to Ben’s Will Ben listen to better nature and pleads mum Kathy or with him to get rid of the young Tommy? drugs. Will Ben listen to the boy that he’s come to view as his little brother, or is he too far along his journey to the dark side? lnsideSoap 23
INSIDE SCOOP EMMERDALE | ITV TUESDAY Amelia & Noah’s secret revealed! IT ALL KICKS OFF WHEN Noah was THE TEEN IS RELEASED sentenced for stalking his ex FROM PRISON… A melia finds herself she put her life at risk by taking Charity didn’t realise he was Harriet throws in more trouble this weight supplements that so close to their neighbour. a lifeline to week, when horrified made her faint while looking homeless Dan Dan discovers his after Thomas. Worse is to She quizzes Amelia about daughter has been lying come, though, as Kim catches her new bond with Noah, and the person who’s screwed in order to visit Noah in jail, Amelia trying to steal Gabby’s hoping to glean information his life up. He hasn’t come just as the lad is released. visiting request and tells Dan about how her son is doing. home with reconciliation on his everything – she’s broken the But when Noah is released mind. In fact, he wants Charity The schoolgirl is already law to secretly spend time a few days later, Charity to steer well clear of him.” in hot water after dropping with a convicted stalker!” quickly realises that any hopes Thomas while babysitting, of reconciliation are futile. Meanwhile, Harriet takes pity and the Spencers are stunned Shocked Charity can’t on Dan and invites him and when unforgiving Kim and believe it when word spreads “Noah hasn’t cooled down Amelia to move in with her. Gabby announce they’re being about Amelia spending time at all during his prison term,” Dan is grateful, but still at evicted – then reveal Amelia’s with her incarcerated son. whispers our source. “If a loss as to why Amelia has been stealing prison visiting Narky Noah hasn’t let his mum anything, he’s even angrier seemingly gone off the rails. orders and impersonating anywhere near the prison, and with Charity. To Noah, she’s Gabby to see Noah! the root of all his problems Amelia was a lifeline to Noah while he was behind bars, but “What happened to sweet, What happened he’s also been a rock for her at innocent, God-fearing Amelia?” tgoodsw-feeaert,iningnAomceenlita, ?” a time when she needs support. asks our Dales insider. “Dan hardly recognises his daughter right now. He was heartbroken 24 lnsideSoap
sYaaogyuatcihanan!t OUR FAVOURITE RECENT SOAP QUOTES… “It is possible that soon everything will be back to normal, and the whole of the last year will have been a dream.” “I’m now with the life force that is Stacey Slater, and Cut to Toyah waking up and nothing will take the edge Imran popping his head out off of that feeling.” Tell that to Bradley. of her shower. “This stinks. A psycho “Did your brain literally from a trashy family just stop growing when you “Maybe yeah, cause that’s getting away with it? were 10 years old?” around the time my 13-year-old The son of a BITCH.” sister got herself pregnant and Ouch. mentally and emotionally scarred me for the rest of my life.” They love each other really! Charity learns that “Everyone knows everything Amelia’s visited a about you. You cheated on Grant, banged-up Noah you cheated on Phil, you bedded Keanu “Well, compared to because he was a pretty little toy boy, you, straight out of Now Noah is a free man, the nunnery, who can the troubled youngsters will be and why? To make you feel young. able to spend even more time Well, let me tell you: from where I’m compete?” together, which won’t please Dan. He’ll be worried sick standing, and what I’m looking that Noah is a bad influence at, it ain’t ‘young’.” on his vulnerable daughter. “Life’s a pig and then “You’re a slag and a liar. Phil you die, that’s what my old just gives you the nod, you’re flat Are Dan’s fears well-founded, on your back and he knows it.” or might Noah surprise him? man used to say to me.” It’s both a shame and a You get more out of a slanging Kate White blessing that we never got match between Kat and Sharon to meet Eric Mitchell. than an entire season of Real Housewives.
INSIDE SCOOP CORONATION STREET | ITV FRIDAY Debbie’s Leanne isn’t prsohpoocskal convinced by Debbie’s plans Desperate Debbie dreams up a way to solve her problems this week – and it involves hunky Ryan Connor. With her money problems threatening to send Debbie to for Ryan! the bankruptcy courts, she’s running out of ways to raise cash fast. Partner Ronnie is doing his bit by helping Debbie dream up theme nights to set the Bistro tills ringing. But WHATEVER COULD SHE BE SUGGESTING? unless some serious high- rollers stop by, it will be a drop in the ocean for Debbie. So, she’s forced to think again no intention of letting this She tells Ronnie that things a few afternoons at Speed – and Ryan provides inspiration. compensation claim go. are so bad that she’s got two Daal isn’t bringing in the “You’d be forgiven for Leanne is less than impressed options – bankruptcy or an big bucks. Instead, Ryan thinking that a night with Ryan with business partner Debbie’s insurance job. However, the is saddled with loads of debt might distract Debbie from ideas for attracting punters, psychic night proves to be and sees no prospect of that the sorry state of her business particularly when one involves more enlightening than Debbie changing anytime soon. Once bank accounts,” smirks our a psychic. The bereaved mum expected when she overhears she hears this, Debbie’s ears cobbles insider. “Let’s face it, can’t stand the thought of Ryan sharing his sob story. prick up because she shares she wouldn’t be tapping him some crank hoodwinking “It’s no secret that Ryan’s pain right now.” up for his problem-solving vulnerable people to earn a Weatherfield’s superstar DJ Hearing Ryan’s confession skills! Still, Ryan has his uses, few quid, but Debbie couldn’t isn’t on Calvin Harris’ wages,” sparks an idea for Debbie, and and Debbie is willing to take care less about their ethics. says our snitch. “But playing she’s convinced it could be the a punt on him, no matter how Ryan is saddled with key to her survival. All she has haphazard her idea might be.” loads of debt and to do is figure out how best sees no way out” to use Ryan and exploit his The truth is that Ed and desperation. Can Debbie dig Aggie’s compensation herself out of this hole after all? demands are about to ruin Debbie, and the Baileys have Kate White 26 lnsideSoap
Ronnie’s CORONATION STREET | ITV MONDAY ideas aren’t enough to Audrey’s prop up the business overdose The hospital horror! shrink pays a visit to tormented Audrey PSYCHIATRIC HELP IS CALLED IN… A larm bells ring for Sarah Platt this Corrie insider. “The pressure week, when Ed lets of being unwell, the family slip that he saw her arguments and wrangling grandma Audrey in hospital. over her inheritance have laid Audrey low. Although Audrey Nobody in the family knows is adamant it was an accident, that Audrey ended her birthday it’s worrying that she won’t tell by taking too many sleeping her family she’s in the hospital. pills, and was rushed to A&E. It could’ve been a cry for help.” The doctors are deeply concerned about the amount Audrey is discharged later of meds in Audrey’s system, that day, and is delighted to so she receives a visit from hear that Stephen is back at the hospital psychiatry liaison Grasmere Drive. But as she officer. They’re worried that it’s attempts to cover up what’s no coincidence that Audrey happened, Ed accidentally overdosed and fear that it blows her secret. Sarah is might have been deliberate. stunned when he tells her he Audrey tries to play it down saw Audrey on the wards, and – but is she being truthful? wants to know what’s going on. Will Audrey be willing to “It’s been a desperate time open up, or is she intent on for Audrey, and she’s finding it keeping her family in the dark? hard to cope,” shares our Kate White Debbie has a glint in her eye when Ryan reveals all lnsideSoap 27
INSIDE SCOOP ICTOVRFORNIDAATYION STREET Tough love for Summer C racks appear in HER ROMANTIC NIGHT WITH Summer and Aaron’s AARON DOESN’T GO TO PLAN… romance this week, as a passionate moment is mortified, though will a of knock-back from the girl Living with an eating ends up turning sour. heart-to-heart with Aaron you are in a relationship disorder, body dysmorphia help resolve their troubles? with. When they talk it over, and diabetes is incredibly The young couple are Summer is forced to admit debilitating for poor Summer. enjoying a night alone at “Aaron understands that she can’t bear the thought Aaron will need every ounce the flat when Aaron tries to Summer better than most – of Aaron seeing her naked of empathy and compassion take things to the next level. he’s been through similar because she’s consumed in order to give her the Although Summer is really issues,” shares our Corrie spy. by self-hatred. That’s a lot security she needs. Is he the into him, her issues with her “But at the same time, it’s for him to process.” man to help her through this? body image prompt her to not easy to take that kind freak out and order him to leave. Afterwards, Summer Tony’s cook-off! HOLLYOAKS ticking for them to get Channel 4 WEDNESDAY organised. So Tony puts himself in the running to T ony hopes to impress provide the food, and trials Shaq with his culinary his very own Asian menu. skills this week, as he fights to be the Tony prepares a taste test caterer for his for Shaq and his upcoming sister Yazz, wedding! though will he be able With Shaq to impress and Nadira’s the pair ceremony enough to being be chosen brought as the forward, wedding the clock is caterer? 28 lnsideSoap
Imran’s confession relationship getting physical. CHhOaLnLnYOelA4KSFRIDAY Meanwhile, embarrassed Nik saves Imran confides in Sid why he’s a life! Imran’s romance with stalling on sleeping with her, Serena is in serious and leaves his mate stunned. jeopardy this week, after he makes a confession – Eventually, Imran sits Serena but is he telling the truth? down in order to explain his behaviour, which means it Serena is baffled by her could be curtains for the pair. fella’s behaviour, and feels as However, the troubled teen if he’s trying to avoid their is still hiding something… CHhOaMnEneAlN5DTAHWUARYSDAY beach. And later on, the Brave Nikau rescues a swimmer’s sister swimmer in distress asks Nikau if he would be this week, then bags willing to joing her for a a date with the girl’s sister, thank-you lunch. And while Naomi! Has Nikau forgotten Nikau is ready to decline, about Bella already? John accepts on his behalf! In lifeguard-rescue mode, Nikau is still set on joining Nikau manages to save a his girlfriend Bella in New drowning woman on the York – though could Naomi persuade Nikau to stay? EMMERDALE The ITV TUESDAY wedding planner! K im Tate looks set to have the wedding LYDIA IS TASKED WITH of the decade – if GIVING KIM THE determined Lydia has PERFECT DAY… anything to do with it! Sam’s missus is dropped in the deep end this week, after Kim announces that her faithful housekeeper will be her new wedding planner. Lydia gets the nod ahead of the dedicated services of Leyla and team from Take A Vow, who are dropped from organising the nuptials when Kim decides Leyla isn’t up to the task. At first Lydia is surprised that she’s been chosen – but by the end of the week, she’s doing everything in her power to ensure that it’s a day the happy couple will never forget. However, as frazzled Lydia struggles to juggle working at the café with bride Kim barking orders at her down the phone, has she bitten off more than she can chew?
Save our Stuart! &RERGAIODNIOS... KAREN AND CALLUM JOIN FORCES… FAIR CITY EASTENDERS step in and do something. BBC1 FRIDAY Callum has been busy juggling Tommy overhears his own dramas following his Cian goading Joan Worried Karen enlists painful split from Ben – and about the incriminating Callum’s help this while he and Vi have been evidence in Zak’s trial week, as she tries to on the periphery of Stuart’s this week – however, to reach struggling Stuart. torment, the troubled bloke can Joan convince has struggled to let them in. Tommy to stay quiet? Stuart lashed out at Karen Meanwhile, as Nora after she realised he’s suffering However, with Karen’s recovers from her from postnatal depression and encouragement, determined injury, she plans to sent him leaflets about the Callum vows to be there for escape from Carol’s condition. However, instead of his brother, and sets about for the afternoon… being put off, Karen decides confronting Stuart about And Mondo tells to speak to the closest person what’s going on. Can his older Dearbhla that Alex in Stuart’s life – Callum. He’s sibling summon the courage is still into her! stunned when Karen explains to be open about how he is her fears, and asks him to feeling with Callum? THE ARCHERS Jealous It’s a life-changing Jai! week for the Archer family, as Natasha EMMERDALE Who is Mad Dog? prepares for her ITV MONDAY C-section – but with CORONATION STREET Tom a bag of nerves, Jai’s nose is put out ITV MONDAY will everything go to of joint this week, plan? Elsewhere, when he sees Laurel Troublesome Hope is Susan comes up with her new fella and at the centre of a new with an extreme has to face the fact that mystery this week, method to protect his ex has moved on. after she comes home to the reputation of a a series of online gaming friend. Finally, Chelsea Laurel is happily dating messages from a player isn’t at all impressed Marlon’s physiotherapist called ‘Mad Dog’. by her new work Kit, and trying to put her colleague… doomed romance with Jai Hope makes the discovery behind her. While Jai only after firing up her tablet, and See TV listings for times wants his old flame to be immediately radios Sam over & channel details. River happy, he can’t help but their walkie-talkies to discuss City is on a summer feel awkward when he the messages further. Sam break – it will be back spies the pair flirting up swiftly concludes that Mad on screen in August. a storm at the Hide. Dog fancies Hope, leaving Fiz and Tyrone’s mischievous lnsideSoap 31 Will Jai decide to fight daughter deep in thought to get Laurel back, or is it about what to do next. now too little, too late? Is Sam right – and who is the person behind Mad Dog?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN? 2SA3T EASTENDERS CORONATION STREET EMMERDALE JULY 2SU4N JULY 2MO5N Ben turns the focus on Sam Stu is furious when Yasmeen Dan confronts Kim over the JULY ������when Phil starts to question him! ������discovers Bridget’s address… ������‘to let’ sign outside his house! Eve and Suki bond over …but Stu decides to pay Rishi’s new dating profile 2TU6E music at McKlunky’s… his daughter a visit. receives some attention… Phill finally hands Fiz the JULY Honey is disappointed when Jay signed annulment forms! Will Moira give Vanessa her makes plans with Lola and Frankie. blessing to get back with Suzy? 2WE7D ������ K evin loses his temper and It’s the opening day of the smashes up Stephen’s car! Charity’s stunned to learn that JULY An old friend of Stu’s calls in ������Panesars’ new GP surgery! to see him at Speed Daal… ������Amelia’s been visiting Noah… 2TH8U Sam brings in Ben as Debbie admits that she’s R ishi’s date cancels on him, co-manager of Peggy’s… struggling to raise money for Ed. so Sandra swoops in! JULY Stacey suggests a pre-wedding Kevin receives a shock when two Kim unveils surprised Lydia party for engaged Kat and Phil. as her new wedding planner. ������police officers knock at the door. Lexi tells Will that Jay is Summer opens up to Aaron Rishi worries his family will about her insecurities… ������cheating on Honey with Lola… Debbie sets her sights on Ryan ������judge him about Sandra. …and after Billy hears to help her get out of debt! Poor Amelia has a lot the news, he punches Jay! ● Debbie gets the casino night on her shoulders… Ash is shocked when Eve under way at the Bistro! Sandra discovers Mandy has puts her in the friend zone. ● George is thrilled when a family hidden cameras in the salon! Everyone reels from the member arrives on the cobbles. Kerry wants to spend time with ● Stu finds himself front and ������recent fight at Peggy’s… ������Al, but he wants to see Chas… … and then the police turn centre of a Gazette article… …and soon, Kerry suspects up and raid the club, too! that Al is up to something! Will Honey believe Jay when Lydia vows to plan the wedding of he tries to explain himself? the decade for Kim – can she do it? 2FR9I Take A Vow is struggling after the loss of Kim’s account… JULY Chas fears her secret affair SPNEEEAKK One resident is left fighting NEATXT for their life! Will they make it? ������with Al might be exposed! WEEK N oah wonders how to adjust Someone finds themself to life back in the village. on the outer with their family… Matty takes his chance to Callum goes on the hunt for a try to get revenge on Suzy… new flatmate – who will it be? Dawn and Billy make an important call to social services. Vanessa is taken aback when someone goes in for a kiss! 32 lnsideSoap
YOUR ENTIRE SOAP WEEK AT A GLANCE! HOLLYOAKS NEIGHBOURS HOME AND AWAY 2SA3T JULY 2SU4N JULY Grace is struggling to control her Susan has a plan to stop Izzy Cash is desperate to keep his 2MO5N emotions after Saul’s attack. ������from pushing her around… ������drunk night with Rose a secret! JULY N adira and Shaq’s wedding C hloe reels from her surprise Mackenzie turns to Dean date is pushed forward! visitor – and their offer! when she gets evicted. Scott isn’t pleased as Vicky and Byron encourages upset Jane Alf agrees to hire Tex as the Joseph’s relationship deepens… to work things out with Clive. handyman for the caravan park… Evidence of the knife attack Jane’s feelings mean she and Felicity is floored when Tane 2TU6E asks her to move in with him! ������doesn’t look good for DeMarcus. ������Nicolette end up bickering… JULY Leela tries to talk some Susan tells Malcom to make Cash and Rose have their first, sense into angry Grace… a choice – and he picks Izzy! ������very awkward, shift together… Nadira lands her and Juliet in Toadie makes a bold gesture to Marilyn suspects that Tex’s a heated situation once again! Melanie as they look to the future. work ethic might change. Lizzie realises that Juliet hasn’t A discovery means Terese lashes Theo asks Chloe for space while 2WE7D out at Glen – what has he done? ������been faithful in her relationship! ������he works on his assignment! JULY M axine hopes to give some An old friend visits Toadie to N ikau isn’t pleased to hear sisterly advice to Serena. Felicity will be moving in… ������wish him luck for the wedding. Imran risks working himself too J ane’s upset to learn Nic is …later, Nikau makes a big decision hard at his training session… planning to move abroad! before attending a rescue at sea. Nadira has second thoughts Glen comes to a sad and painful Nikau saves someone, and realises 2TH8U ������about telling Shaq the truth! ������realisation about Terese and Paul. ������he loves his job in Summer Bay! JULY J ohn Paul returns, but will his Leo joins David and Paul in Justin helps Nikau by writing family be happy to see him? wanting to move to the US! the assignment for him… 2FR9I Imran confides in Sid about his Izzy has an encounter with Shane Mackenzie admits she’s terrified JULY reason for dismissing Serena. and is dazzled by his wealth… about possibly going to prison. A slip of the tongue leads to Jane gives Mike a tour of Ramsay ������ Mackenzie enjoys the last Street before the houses are sold. day before her sentencing! ������a shocking revelation for Peri! Misbah forces Imran and T oadie and Melanie’s John tells Nikau to go out for Serena to have a catch-up. wedding gets under way… lunch with new girl Naomi. Leela recruits Cindy to help her …and Ramsay Street has some The following morning, Dean with a hen party at the Loft… realises Mackenzie has gone… ������magic in store for everyone! Sally wants John Paul to return And sadly that’s a wrap ● Felicity comes up with an idea SNEAK to teaching – will he go back? for life in Erinsborough! that could save Mac’s business. PEEK NEATXT Damon has some explaining to Turn to p4 for all the juicy ● Rose considers leaving Summer WEEK do when Liberty catches him out! details about the last episodes… Bay for good – will she go? Imran doesn’t know how to …and p54 for the final interview ● Nikau ends up in hospital after open up about how he’s feeling… in our super Neighbours send-off! saving a surfer on the beach… lnsideSoap 33
Classic SCOOP The BIG stories from a week of timeless drama… EPISODES FROM MARCH 2001 thPeasahttiinc? CLASSIC CORONATION STREET | ITV3 MON-FRI IT SEEMS DEV HAS A SECRET LOVER STASHED ABOVE THE SHOP… We’ve no doubt hear a lady’s voice. “Is that you, Bobbi wastes no straight to the that Dev has been Dev,” coos the mystery woman. time in explaining a philanderer in “You were brilliant last night.” what’s what to corner shop, his time. He’s a handsome Shocked, Bobbi and Vik make Dev’s other charmer with a number of a hasty retreat, certain they’ve half Geena, convinced corner-shop premises in his encountered Dev’s secret lover! who heads back pocket – surely spoiling that she’ll the line of his 501s – so the Sunita’s family ladies must come flocking tracks her down find Dev as he glides into central to Dev’s flat… Manchester’s finest nightclubs. getting (Dev wouldn’t do his wooing in Weatherfield, he enjoys a jiggy better class of gold-digger.) upstairs on So, you can’t blame Vik for jumping to conclusions a crate of when he and Bobbi sneak into the flat above Dev’s shop …where her marrowfats. for a sneaky bunk-up, and brother Jayesh And her pleads with her fears appear to go to India to be confirmed: Dev is indeed there with a young girl! But it’s Geena who’s left red-faced, as for once Dev is about to go from zero to hero. You see, Sunita is one of Dev’s 34 lnsideSoap
Busy butcher EPISODES tHhoelbdainbgy Ashley is struggling FROM APRIL to ‘meat’ broody 2002 CLASSIC EMMERDALE | ITV3 MON-FRI Maxine’s needs It’s time to say goodbye this Yes, there’s a cruise ship Meanwhile, Louise Violent thug Ray employees, and due to week, as Bernice finally with a vacancy that’s perfect and Ray make it tightens his grip be put on a flight to India realises it’d be better for for her. But, of course, it leaves official, but she’s on lover Louise for an arranged marriage everyone if she left the village. tonight. So Bernice quickly shocked that he’s she doesn’t want any part packs up her things – at such been keeping a of. Deciding to help, Dev The last straw comes when speed, in fact, that she forgets big secret from concealed her in the flat Ashley, despondent at the her daughter! Diane is outraged her: he’s diabetic. to hide from her family. breakdown of his marriage, that Bernice plans to abandon Because it’s far too announces that he’s lost his her child, though Bernice is early for Louise to So no, there’s no big, faith – dramatically ripping off adamant – and she sails away, discover that he’s angry showdown. Well, not his dog collar and handing it to leaving Ashley holding Gabby. a psycho gangster for the moment anyway – Edna. But as luck would have Let’s hope the troubled soul – where would the Sunita’s family later rock up it, Bernice gets one of those can find calmer waters… fun be in that? and put paid to that. And only-in-the-soaps job offers. there’s no funny business going on between Dev CLASSIC EASTENDERS | Drama MON-FRI EPISODES and Sunita. Again, not for Cmhiniled!o’ FROM the moment anyway… JAN Get ready for more 2001 Elsewhere, Maxine fears than the usual use of Ashley is too busy at the the word ‘faamily’ this heads off with her new family. butchers toying with his week, as Pauline becomes However, there’s a feeling perfect sausage, to find time determined to stop Sonia from no one is certain that it’s to get her pregnant. What having little Chloe adopted. the right thing to happen. would Freud make of that? The birth of Sonia’s tot Elsewhere, Kat gets drunk Short brought a judgey reaction from hands on her granddaughter. at Zoe’s 16th and starts calling Zoe her ‘baby’. Just what is TENANCY! our Pauline – it was little more But the wind is knocked out of the silly mare on about? Duggie tricks his co- than she expected from one of her sails when Martin finally owners Fred Elliott and Mike Baldwin into selling Carol Jackson’s brood. Yet fights back and admits the their share of the Rovers Pauline has changed her mind truth – he’s 15 and wants to be back to him this week. It makes the trio’s now she’s discovered the baby playing football, not changing three-month stint at the helm of is Martin’s. She drags him to nappies. The judge approves the cobbles boozer the shortest since Billy Walker’s disastrous takeover from his legendary mum Annie in 1984. court, determined to get her the adoption, and young Chloe WHERE TO WATCH… EASTENDERS Drama Double bill at 1pm CORONATION STREET ITV3 Double weekdays. Catch up on the UKTV Play app. bill at 2.50pm weekdays, repeated the following EMMERDALE ITV3 Double bill at 1.45pm weekday at 6am. Catch up on the ITV Hub. weekdays, repeated the following weekday at 6.55am. Catch up on the ITV Hub. lnsideSoap 35
SOAPBOX £10 RANT! RAVE! WE LOVE TO HEAR YOUR OPINIONS! cGonettainct that Susie’s body turned up in the Bay after she fleeced John and was killed by another of her scam victims. Now they’ve found PK on the beach! Hopefully everyone else should be safe until 2023. | Ricki, Hampshire Next year everyone needs to have their wits about them… £S2ta5r Drop our Alice Which lucky lady letter! a line and join will end up with the FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT! in the fun! Walford Lothario? There’s £10 I’m sick and tired of people fake dying in the on offer for FRIEND OR FOE? soaps. First there was Phil in EastEnders, who every comment supposedly died and then turned up the next we publish – The friendship brewing between day. Now in Hollyoaks we have Warren, who and £25 for the Kat and Sharon is officially over we thought had been murdered and thrown in star letter! now that they both want Phil a bin by Sienna – but he’s not really dead either! Mitchell. However, I hope they Email us at carry on with their ‘fremeny’ | John soapbox@ status – they’re like a modern-day insidesoap.co.uk Pat and Peggy! It’s sad to see them A NEW DAWN Last goodbye: Faith come to blows over Phil, but and Cain make peace Find us on we all know that his heart will I’ve never seen anything in Instagram at always belong to Sharon… a soap as stunning as the scene in Emmerdale between Faith @insidesoapmagazine | Michelle, Birmingham and Cain. They gazed into a We have a feeling Kat and splendid Yorkshire sunrise, comJominunoiutyr at Sharon’s on-off friendship will and held hands as beautiful continue for a while yet! classical music played in the www.facebook.com/ background… It was a real tear- insidesoap GHOST OF jerker that I will never forget. RAMSAY STREET oFnoltlowwittuesr | Linda, Sheffield The siege in Neighbours was utterly We were all feeling a bit @InsideSoapMag thrilling this week, with Emma emotional after that one! holding the girls at gunpoint. But the best scene was next DANGER IN door when Byron HOME AND AWAY! revealed he was a male escort and Mrs How many more bodies can wash Mangel’s portrait up in Summer Bay?! For such a fell to the floor! small town there is a very high death rate. It was only last year | Vera, Bath Mrs Mangel 36 lnsideSoap keeps an eye on all her relatives!
Scott gets our vote! PUT ON A SHOW Scott’s performance with the Runcorn Rhythmics in Hollyoaks for the local election was bonkers, but absolutely amazing! It was also great to see Scott back in drag, even if it was as Bonnie Tyler, rather than his usual alter ego, Anita Tinkle. | Eleanor We really liked the part where Tony was on the Segway! ROMANCE IN THE VILLAGE… It has been funny watching Laurel TBDhIeEGBATE! try to make sure she bumps into Kit accidentally on purpose in Emmerdale! After the car crash relationship that was her and Jai, it’s actually Will Laurel ILLUSTRATION: ROB DAVIS great to see move on with Kit? her flirt with a man who seems to have no baggage – as of yet. | Rani We’ve come to find you can never BACK TOGETHER, AGAIN! fully trust any newcomer… Even now she’s still lying to After going through with her wedding Phill – he seems like a nice SECRET EXTENSION to Phill in Corrie, Fiz decided to leave guy and is certainly better The Grimshaws have recently him and go back to her cheating ex, off without her. moved into No 11 in Classic Corrie, Tyrone! And our readers had very mixed feelings about Fiz’s decision… | Yassi and Todd was moaning about A few people think Phill it only having two bedrooms – could still be in with a chance to win Fiz’s heart… he’d have to share with Jason. How then, 21 years later, can the house accommodate Eileen, Let’s face it, Tyrone is bound to say or do something very Todd, Sean and Mary, plus guests soon that will break Fiz’s heart. As long as Phill is such as George, Frank and Dylan? Soap weddings always go we would have missed out still waiting on the sidelines, wrong, but Fiz and Phill’s on Mimi and Evelyn singing, I don’t reckon that we can I’d love to know the sleeping marriage episode was one of and that was hilarious! It fully rule out a reunion. the most ludicrous. Why did was the perfect moment arrangements! Fiz go through the ceremony, when Fiz declared her love | Nathan | Luke, say her vows, and then for Tyrone on his doorstep County embarrass her new husband in her wedding dress. Soon enough Fiz will come to Durham and all the guests half-an- regret what she’s done. It just hour later? It makes no sense. | Sylvia, Hampshire depends on whether Phill is Who knows willing to wait for her. how many | Colin, London I have really gone off Fiz – hidden what a rotten thing to do, | Carly, Newcastle rooms Well, vast expense could have marrying Phill, then leaving If we were in Phill’s shoes, are been saved if Fiz really had let him at the wedding reception we’d be leaving ASAP! in the her heart rule her head. But and sleeping with Tyrone! Corrie lnsideSoap 37 Tight squeeze: houses! The Grimshaws
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THEinBteIrGview “I’ve spent aEMMERDALE|ITVTHURSDAY quarter of my life as Kerry!” TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS ON EMMERDALE, LAURA NORTON LOOKS BACK AT KERRY’S MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS… When I started at Emmerdale I was Family feud: Amy in my 20s, now I’m nearly and Kerry have had 40 with a partner and their fair share of drama an 18-month-old baby!” exclaims Laura Norton, Hi, Laura! Congratulations as she reflects on the life-changing on your 10th anniversary! role of Dales favourite Kerry Wyatt. How has it gone so quickly?! I turn The gobby Geordie burst on to our 40 next year so I’ve spent a quarter of my life here – that’s huge! screens like a tornado in hoop earrings Do you remember your first day? back in July 2012. Funny, flawed and Yes and I was reminiscing recently fierce, she became popular with fans with the director who was there! I was covered in fake tan and had my hair as she tried to repair her relationship blow-dried, we were on location and it rained all day so eventually the tan with estranged daughter Amy, found went streaky and my hair turned frizzy. I looked completely different by love and lost it again with Dan, and the last scene compared to the first few! created a hilarious partnership with Bernice and Mandy at the salon. Lovely Laura is also much admired here at Inside Soap, so looking back on a decade in the Dales provided the perfect excuse for a good old natter… Pushy parent: Laura What did you first think of Kerry? sees Kerry as a bit of a ‘Dance Mom’ I only had to read a bit of dialogue and straight away I understood who she was and where she’d come from, 40 lnsideSoap
Signature style: Laura hopes Kerry’s dress sense never changes this flawed, working class girl with a past. I remember she was based on the mother-in-law of the person who created her. What a force she must’ve been! Were you nervous at first? Really nervous! I’d never done a soap and it’s very fast-paced, everyone is well established and you have to find your way in. Me and my family had always watched Emmerdale and I’d auditioned before – however, it hadn’t worked out, so I thought that ship had sailed. Which role was it? It was actually two: Ali and Ruby, Amelia’s birth mum and her girlfriend. The casting director said I wasn’t quite right for either, but a year later they called me in for Kerry. I was the first person they saw out of about 40. It was meant to be! Do you still like playing Kerry? I love her. She’s a tart with a heart, a bit of a train wreck, a good-time girl who had a tough upbringing, so there’s a lot of baggage and vulnerability. CONTINUED OVER↘ lnsideSoap 41
↘ FROM PREVIOUS PAGE It’s always interesting, and she’s the kind of character you can put anywhere in the village and there’d be conflict. Even if she was in Home Farm it would be funny and ridiculous! How has she changed? For a while she was on a loop of apologising to Amy and promising to change, but she never did. After she started a fire by putting a fag out on the carpet when she was drunk that changed everything – so Dan helped with when we had a fight one Christmas and I was dressed as a reindeer! Sam much potential Legend: that. He gave her a Giles (Bernice) and I get into trouble damage could’ve Laura’s scraps ready-made family for giggling when we’re together – happened that would with Charlie unit and she became once she knocked over a load of stuff have screwed things up Hardwick (Val) a brilliant mother off a shelf and we were hysterical! were memorable Where will Kerry be in for good. At her lowest figure to Amelia when Ali another 10 years’ time? point Dan picked her up and died. Kerry still makes bad Running her own dance school for kids! That would be so brilliant. Kerry was the first person to love her for decisions, yet not as often. She’s more got Amelia into beauty pageants so I can see her as a pushy, competitive who she was. That was a turning point comfortable in her own skin, ‘Dance Mom’ wearing neon leotards. I’d also like her to be settled and where she stopped self-sabotaging and but that vulnerability is still there. content, but still with awful dress sense. No matter how happy she started making better decisions. Who have you enjoyed is, Kerry will never gain style! She used to be a right mess… working with the most? Johnathon Hughes Remember when she faked a Everyone’s been brilliant. Those early pregnancy to stop Andy Sugden days with Chelsea Halfpenny [the first dumping her? She stole a pregnant actress to play Amy] were great – the woman’s wee to put on a test… chemistry was magical. Growing up The things people do when they’re I admired Charlie Hardwick [Val] so desperate! Kerry is insecure, but I loved Val and Kerry’s feud, especially Me and MY BOYS! Laura is a mum and a fiancée thanks to Emmerdale… Not only has Emmerdale “Mark came in as Dan’s earned Laura legions of fans brother Daz in 2014, initially as a bona fide soap star, it for a short stint,” she recalls. also introduced her to her “We kept in touch as friends future fiancé and father of and grew closer – and we her child, Mark Jordon… never looked back! If you’d have said when we first met that in a few years we would PHOTOS: INSTAGRAM/LAURA_NORTS, MARKJORDANDAD be a couple and have a baby I would’ve said, ‘Excuse me?’” So, with performing parents, is it inevitable little Jesse will end up going into acting? “Whatever makes him happy, I’ll support him,” grins Laura. “Though my dad is determined for him to be a footballer!” 42 lnsideSoap Doting dad: Fiancé Mark with the pair’s son Jesse
PHOTOS: GETTY, INSTAGRAM/SALLYDYNEVOR, PHOTOGRAPHER NICKY JOHNSTON, STYLING ANNIE SWAIN, HMU TALLY BOOKBINDER. SALLY WEARS SATIN SHIRT EQUIPMENT@FENWICK, BLUE TROUSERS MANGO Double act: Viewers love the dynamic between Sally and Tim “dImGoheeyatsvtsniep’ntatgomrokleolldaesee!nr CORRIE’S SALLY DYNEVOR IS READY TO GRAB LIFE WITH BOTH HANDS… 44 lnsideSoap
CORONATION STREET | ITV FRIDAY fter clocking up 36 years on the cobbles living one of soapland’s most Adramatic lives, you’d forgive Street star Sally Dynevor for needing a long lie down. But Sally is just as full of enthusiasm for Corrie as she has ever been. In fact, she loves the fact that Sally and Tim are currently in the middle of the action because of a, er, lack of action in their bedroom. This week, Tim tries to woo Htoagpeptyher! his wife by inviting her to a casino night Sally on her real-life Tim… at the Bistro, and Sally tells us that Her on-screen marriage might be on shaky ground, but Sally’s she can’t get enough of the comedy Skate off: Sally relationship with her husband and drama this story is providing in action on Tim has never been stronger… her and co-star Joe Duttine… Dancing On Ice “Tim and I are best friends – that’s the secret to a long “It’s one of my favourite storylines marriage,” she admits. “We were friends for years before we got because it’s such a great balance of is that people can identify with them. together… I tell Tim everything. I trust him completely, and he’s comedy and drama!” enthuses Sally, The older or middle-aged couples are incredibly kind and caring.” who is married to scriptwriter Tim a staple of the Street. The Metcalfes are Their older children Phoebe and Sam have moved out – and Dynevor in real life. “The writing team like other couples in the show’s history with daughter Hattie reaching adulthood, Sally says have been very clever because if we’d – there’s a little bit of Jack and Vera and the couple have more time for themselves. have played the whole thing as comedy a bit of Stan and Hilda. People seem to “Deep down, alone, people wouldn’t have taken hope they’ll stay together forever.” we know we can’t it seriously. There’s also realness and Interestingly, though, Sally refuses go away without people are finding it hilarious, while to rule out a departure from Corrie… everyone coming recognising what Sally and Tim are going “As soon as I don’t enjoy my role any along,” laughs through. The fans are invested in them.” more, I’ll leave,” she reasons. “I’m a the star. “The five of us There’s no doubt that Corrie fans love firm believer in doing what makes you love being in each other’s the combination of snobby Sally and happy. Who knows, I might get killed pockets!” rough diamond Tim. Having years of off – or Steven Spielberg might knock soap behind her helped Sally get royal on the door! However, three decades recognition when she was awarded an on, I still enjoy it as much as I did MBE earlier this year, but she herself when I started.” is TV royalty – and loves that her soap Mum-of-three Sally says she’s entered alter ego is part of sensitive storytelling a new phase in her personal life now about people in their late middle age. youngest Hattie has turned 18. But she “We need to see people just getting on says that in the last year of her 50s, with their lives, but having these little she’s feeling more energised than ever. problems that we all deal with,” she “I feel more secure in myself than says. “What I love about Sally and Tim I did 10 or even 20 years ago,” shares Sally. “Hitting the menopause hasn’t made me want to retire – it’s the opposite. As you get older, you can lose confidence because you start to feel a bit invisible, but doing Dancing On Ice reaffirmed what I should have been feeling all along – getting older doesn’t mean I have to lose my sparkle.” In fact, her stint on the ice has opened things up, and Sally has big plans for her 60th year. “I’d like to take a month off and travel around America, unrushed by time,” she daydreams. “The older I get, the more adventurous I’m becoming. I want to do things I couldn’t do when my children Street life: The star were younger. With the exception of has played her character for 36 years putting frogs on my head on I’m A Celeb, there’s nothing I wouldn’t be up for!” Kate White
MGinAd Pthe!EASTENDERS|BBC1MONDAY AS JAY AND HONEY HIT THE ROCKS, EMMA BARTON DISCUSSES WHETHER THE AGE GAP BETWEEN THEM IS STARTING TO MATTER… As surprising soap romances go, Honey and Jay scored high on the controversy meter when they went public in 2020. It wasn’t so much the 17-year age difference, more that, historically, Honey helped to bring up Jay as a boy – as her furious ex Billy pointed out! That said, adult Jay is wise beyond his years – and he hasn’t put a foot wrong in giving Honey the love and stability that she craves. Yet as Jay finds himself swapping nights in with Honey for nights out with his ex, Lola, the cracks are beginning to show. Emma Barton – who’s played Honey since 2006 – offers her thoughts on whether her Walford romance will last… Hi, Emma! Where do you stand on Jay and Honey’s relationship? It’s going really well in the sense that Honey trusts Jay and he’s great with her children. However, there is a massive Age is just a number: Jay and Honey have been together for two years 46 lnsideSoap
age gap – so are they on The gossip mill goes into overdrive – leading Honey to different journeys? I would say that’s the most difficult suspect that Jay is cheating on her thing for her to think about. with Lola. Does she think it’s true? It doesn’t even cross her mind – until The age gap never she hears whispers from her son Will, bothered Honey before; and then her friend Ash! Honey is no can she see herself being pushover, so she asks Jay directly if he’s with Jay forever? having an affair. When he says no, she When Honey’s in a believes him, but it does make Honey relationship, she puts wonder: ‘Is this because he’s going out everything into it. But there’s and I’m not joining him?’ no way she is thinking that Are you rooting for Honey and far ahead. She’s living for the moment, and as long as Jay? Or would you like to work Out on the town: her family unit with new people? Jay has been is happy, she is Honey partying happy. Honey’s isn’t sure I love working with Jamie with his ex, Lola last relationship if she can [Borthwick, who plays with [dentist] keep up Jay], and Perry Fenwick Adam was just with Jay [Billy] and the Mitchells. awful, so she’s But that’s also why I adore being out on the market, enjoying the as I work with everyone. fact that Do you love the somebody is market as much in the winter? showing her love. Suspicious: Lexi tells Jay has been partying I’ve been lucky not to experience the Honey’s son Will that with pals closer to his really harsh weather yet – Honey has own age. How does Honey always had a job that kept her inside. Lola and Jay are After 17 years, I think it’s my time! having an affair feel about that? You dressed up as Ginger Spice She’s questioning whether she can keep up! Honey has a very responsible recently when the Royals visited job now as Walford’s market inspector the Square. Are you still buzzing? – and it’s important to her that she is Oh, amazing, what a memorable day. respected. So, going out and getting Over the years EastEnders has had the drunk isn’t on Honey’s radar – but that Queen visit and George Michael on set, doesn’t mean she wants to stop Jay. but I was never there. I was worried, as Yet she’s not overly impressed it started to snow – and I was in a vest! Prince Charles said to me, “Gosh, you after he rolls in drunk this week… must be so cold – you need to get in a True, but what sober person – who’s just bath full of whiskey!” I liked that! woken up on a school night to someone Laura-Jayne Tyler coming in singing at the top of their voice, making a mess – is impressed by that? So yes, Honey gives Jay a look of, ‘Really? This is not acceptable’! CELEBRATING PERRY! Emma’s co-star marks a major milestone… Honey and Billy haven’t been “I saw him afterwards and together romantically on screen gave him a big hug. for a while, yet Perry Fenwick – I’m very fortunate to who plays Billy – will always be have Perry as my Emma’s Walford hubby. And mentor; he was the actor had plenty to feel the person who chuffed about recently… took me under “We recently celebrated Perry’s his wing when 2,000th episode on set – he was I first joined, and presented with some flowers, and he’s still here. he was made up!” grins Emma. He’s my rock.” lnsideSoap 47
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BEST ACTOR BEST VILLAIN BEST YOUNG PERFORMER DAVID NEILSON MAXIMUS EVANS Age 17 or under on the Roy Cropper, Coronation Street Corey Brent, Coronation Street date of voting launch MICHAEL LE VELL REBECCA RYAN ISABELLA FLANAGAN Kevin Webster, Coronation Street Lydia Chambers, Coronation Street Hope Stape, Coronation Street MIKEY NORTH CHARLIE BROOKS JUDE RIORDAN Gary Windass, Coronation Street Janine Butcher, EastEnders Sam Blakeman, Coronation Street DANNY DYER TOBY-ALEXANDER SMITH LILLIA TURNER Mick Carter, EastEnders Gray Atkins, EastEnders Lily Slater, EastEnders JAZ DEOL MICHAEL WILDMAN SONNY KENDALL Kheerat Panesar, EastEnders Al Chapman, Emmerdale Tommy Moon, EastEnders MAX BOWDEN PAIGE SANDHU AMELIA FLANAGAN Ben Mitchell, EastEnders Meena Jutla, Emmerdale April Windsor, Emmerdale KEVIN MATHURIN GLYNIS BARBER GABRIELLE DOWLING Charles Anderson, Emmerdale Norma ‘The Undertaker’ Crow, Hollyoaks Cathy Hope, Emmerdale JEFF HORDLEY JAMIE LOMAS CHARLIE BEHAN Cain Dingle, Emmerdale Warren Fox, Hollyoaks Charlie Dean, Hollyoaks MARK CHARNOCK JAYDEN FOX Marlon Dingle, Emmerdale Bobby Costello, Hollyoaks GREGORY FINNEGAN James Nightingale, Hollyoaks RICHARD BLACKWOOD Felix Westwood, Hollyoaks JAMES SUTTON John Paul McQueen, Hollyoaks BEST BEST FAMILY NEWCOMER THE ALAHANS BILL FELLOWS Coronation Street Stu Carpenter, Coronation Street THE PLATTS PADDY BEVER Coronation Street Max Turner, Coronation Street THE PANESARS DELROY ATKINSON EastEnders Howie Danes, EastEnders THE SLATERS HEATHER PEACE EastEnders Eve Unwin, EastEnders THE DINGLES LOUISE JAMESON Emmerdale Mary Goskirk, Emmerdale THE SHARMAS MARTELLE EDINBOROUGH Emmerdale Susie Merton, Emmerdale THE CHEN-WILLIAMS GARCIA BROWN Hollyoaks Zoe Anderson, Hollyoaks THE McQUEENS MATTHEW JAMES-BAILEY Hollyoaks Ethan Williams, Hollyoaks
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