Joy and pain for Nicole

Joy and pain for Nicole
Joy and pain for Nicole (Image credit: Channel 5)

Nicole focuses on her breathing while Angelo calls Sid, who predicts Nicole will be giving birth very soon. She can feel the baby coming and... hooray! Angelo delivers a healthy baby boy. Nicole urges Angelo to give the baby to Marilyn quickly, trying to mask her pain. Xavier is contacted by someone asking if his mother is 'Georgy-girl' - a name Gina has not been called in a long time. Gina realises it must be the daughter of Vanessa, a friend from her younger, wilder days. She's certain that Vanessa will have calmed down like Gina has. But when Gina and Xavier meet Vanessa, she produces a photo of Gina on the shoulders of a rocker at a concert - topless! Xavier threatens to post it on Facebook unless Gina lets him go to the Mountain Music Festival. Indi goes on her first date with Kieran and he bombards her with questions. At first she finds it flattering, but it soon becomes overbearing. Indi is afraid of hurting him. Sid calls with the baby news and Indi tells Kieran she can't spend time with him right now. He calls later, asking her out. She lies, saying she's at the hospital. But he's right outside the Pier Diner, looking at her... Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

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.