Faye’s leaving, but is Mark going with her?
Natasha’s looking forward to 2010 with great joy after she sees that Faye’s cottage is up for rent and can’t resist bidding Faye farewell in her own special way. Natasha has no idea that Mark is inside the cottage, making plans with wife No 1, Faye, to ditch her. But does Mark really have the backbone or the desire to leave Natasha and his children? Just like the dad he doesn’t know he has (Mark, to everyone who does know), Ryan is wracked with guilt and blowing hot and cold with his ‘other woman’, Maisie – who is, also unknown to him or her, his half-sister. He’s back to pretending he feels nothing for her and hides his desperation when Katie tells him they’ll be spending New Year’s Eve with Maisie. Who will he be kissing when the bells ring in 2010? Zak had better buck up or he won’t be getting a New Year kiss from Lisa… She feels hurt and betrayed when she discovers he’s told the family about her nude modelling. Moira overhears them arguing in the pub and shames him into agreeing that Lisa should carry on with the modelling. But will she? Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.