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THIS WEEK IN SPOILERS
A Place To Call Home: James gets a shocking confession from Olivia.
Will Todd take the money and run?
Coronation Street: Billy’s gotten a complaint about Todd staying at the rectory and Billy accuses Sean of being behind it. Sean denies it, but Billy doesn’t believe him. The bishop tells Billy that Todd has to move out and Billy is upset that he can’t have a love life and do his job as a vicar. Todd decides to move out, upsetting Billy even more. Billy thinks about leaving the church to become a social worker, a notion that disturbs Todd.
Elsewhere, Todd is suspicious about Phelan’s business deals and manages to overhear Phelan revealing that it’s a scam. Todd races to tell Eileen, only Phelan has arranged for Eileen to be spirited away in a car on the pretense of a vacation. Todd demands to know where his mother is, but Phelan assures Todd she’s safe. Todd is shocked when Phelan offers Todd a cut of the deal in exchange for his silence and the safe return of his mother.
Days of Our Lives: Paul is asked about he and Sonny’s relationship; Sonny worries when his family is held hostage.
Will Lawrence lose Ronnie forever?
Emmerdale: Aaron gets news of a business trip in France and Robert wants to turn it into a romantic holiday. But when they get word that Liv has been misbehaving at school, Aaron wants Robert to stay behind to keep an eye on Liv. Humph.
Later, Chrissie hires Victoria to cater an event at Home Farm, leaving Robert wary of Chrissie’s intentions, yet wondering how he can use this to his advantage.
Meanwhile, Ronnie tells Lawrence he’s done with his work and is leaving town for good. Lawrence is more upset that he’s willing to admit and Chrissie can see it. When Chrissie offers Ronnie a chance to stay in town, will he take it?
John Paul obviously can’t see if he’s dressing like that.
Hollyoaks: John Paul needs to see an eye specialist about his sight, but he can’t afford it. James leaves him the cash, but JP doesn’t want to take it. He goes to visit James and finds him in the middle of an ugly exchange with his father. James quickly ushers JP away. Later a drunken James crashes a family dinner, upset about the problems between he and his dad.
People of the Valley: Mel tries to make Iolo understand why she’s a homophobe.
TEASERS FOR NEXT WEEK
How will James handle Henry’s confession?
A Place To Call Home: Henry’s confession forces James to figure out how he really feels.
Coronation Street: Todd is lured into a deadly trap.
Days of our Lives: Paul works to catch the escaped felons; Sonny gets stunning news from Victor.
Holby City: Dom makes a shocking discovery about Issac’s past.
Hollyoaks: Ste is rejected.
Emmerdale: Robert gets a wicked idea.
Neighbors: Aaron gets the attention of the sexy new guy in town.
That’s it for this edition of Gays of Our Lives. Please share your comments on the thoughts and opinions expressed in this week’s column below. See you next week!
Hey, Lucas was on “General Hospital” today! …oh, I’m sorry, just his picture, in recapping this asinine serial killer storyline. It’s crazy, given he’s the only living victim, that he’s not part of this story AT ALL. Ugh.
It’s Iolo’s OCD that is clouding his sanity when it comes to Mel. He obsessed over the attack. He puts a suit on just to go and look at mugshots. He finds out her name. He finds out she is from good stock and artistic. He wants to know why she is a gay-hater. He stalks her like an idiot in a van with his name and contact details on it. She stalks him back. She has barged or broken into his house like multiple times already. So now he is obsessing about that. This has nothing to do with her explaining her homophobia. She is using that to play him in a ploy to taint the criminal case against her.
Since Iolo is hyper-obsessing about the attack, his father, his father’s sentence, the sun and the moon and the everything, Tyler couldn’t sit him down for two seconds. When he does, Iolo tells him to take care of the wedding plans on his own because he can’t concentrate. Tyler “hires” Dani as a wedding planner. Dani finds the discount wedding package online. She wanted the boys to buy it. Tyler says Iolo isn’t around to approve it. Dani takes Garry’s credit card and buys it so the boys don’t miss out on a deal. When Tyler offers to pay, she says think of it as a gift and less the two of them have to worry about.
The story is really not that complicated.
Coronation Street is amazing right now. The romance is cute and the chemistry is off the charts. Sadly I can’t enjoy a single moment of it because I know what’s coming.
On DOOL, was that supposed to be a spark between Chad & Gabi last week? That would be way out of character for Chad when you consider his history with Gabi. I hope I’m wrong.
I thought I had missed an extra EastEnders episode when they didn’t show any of Paul’s funeral. With Ben scheduled to speak and Phil agreeing to go and support him, this was a pretty big event to just happen off-screen. And I agree that Johnny would have been at the funeral. The bits with Dot & Colin seem like an attempt to give the Friday episode a message, but it ended up getting lost with so much going on. As a story arc – even a small one – it deserved to play out over a couple of days.
I don’t like this Mel story on People of the Valley but hope it will develop into something good. Why did Iolo allow her in his home in the first place? This story is getting a little sloppy. I’m glad Iolo & Tyler are postponing the wedding even though I’ve been looking forward to it. There is too much other drama in Iolo’s world right now that would take away the joy of the day. Dani got carried away with the idea of planning a wedding and spent money she shouldn’t have. If/when the wedding happens, I hope Sion makes good on his promise because I’d love for them to move into Y Felin.