Hollyoaks spoilers: Mercedes McQueen blackmails Joel!

Mercedes McQueen blackmails Joel Dexter in Hollyoaks.

Ste Hay is desperate to salvage his marriage to James Nightingale in Hollyoaks. (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe) gets tough with Joel Dexter (Rory Douglas-Speed) in tonight’s Hollyoaks on at 7pm (See our TV Guide for full listings).

Mercedes has discovered that Joel is back taking heroin again but has kept this information to herself so far whilst trying to help Joel back on the straight and narrow.

Tonight, Mercy switches things round and says she needs Joel’s help.

She wants him to provide an alibi for his dad, Warren Fox (Jamie Lomas) to stop him from getting a prison sentence.

Warren Fox played by Jamie Lomas in Hollyoaks. — Warren Fox desperately needs an alibi in Hollyoaks. (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Currently there is a two hour window that Warren can’t account for.

Joel is torn on what to do for the best. Will he be his dad’s alibi?

It looks like he’s not got much of a choice.

Tonight Mercedes ramps up the pressure and threatens Joel that she will tell his wife Leela Lomax (Kirsty-Leigh Porter) about his drug taking if he doesn’t go to the police to help get Warren out

Leela and Joel on their wedding day in Hollyoaks. — Joel and Leela married before tragedy struck and they lost their unborn baby. (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Meanwhile Leela grows increasingly suspicious about Joel and Mercedes spending yet more time together and convinces herself that the two are secretly seeing each other behind her back.

Will she confront the pair of them over her hunch?

Ste Hay and James Nightingale on their wedding day in Hollyoaks. — Leah is desperate to get her dad Ste and his husband James back together in Hollyoaks. (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Over at the law firm, Leah Barnes (Ela-May Demircan) carries on with her mission to get her dad Ste Hay (Kieron Richardson) and his estranged husband James Nightingale (Gregory Finnegan) back together.

Meanwhile Maxine Minniver (Nikki Sanderson) ,who works with James at Dee Valley Law, notices that James has changed his will and questions why he has suddenly altered it to leave everything to Ste and his children.

What HUGE SECRET has James been hiding?

John Paul McQueen played by James Sutton. — John Paul McQueen (above) is duped by manipulator Abe Fielding. (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Plus, John-Paul McQueen (James Sutton) pays Cleo McQueen (Nadine Mulkerrin) and her abusive boyfriend Abe Fielding (Tyler Conti) a visit.

Abe continues to pull the wool over John-Paul’s eyes leaving Cleo even more isolated than ever.

Meanwhile, over at the Loft, Ethan Williams (Matthew-James Bailey) and Vicky Grant (Anya Lawrence) are still circling each other but the chemistry and lust between them is obvious!

Are they about to give into their passions?

Hollyoaks airs Monday- Friday on E4 at 7pm

Stream the episode earlier on Channel 4

Or stream the episodes first on All4

Tess is a senior writer for What’s On TV, TV Times, TV & Satellite and WhattoWatch.com She's been writing about TV for over 25 years and worked on some of the UK’s biggest and best-selling publications including the Daily Mirror where she was assistant editor on the weekend TV magazine, The Look, and Closer magazine where she was TV editor. She has freelanced for a whole range of websites and publications including We Love TV, The Sun’s TV Mag, Woman, Woman’s Own, Fabulous, Good Living, Prima and Woman and Home.