Discover why Sam and Jack kiss in the Soap Scoop

Discover why Sam and Jack kiss in the Soap Scoop (Image credit: BBC)

Sam Mitchell redefines her role as a one-woman wrecking ball in next week's EastEnders when she winds up in an embrace with Jack Branning. The feisty minx starts the week by upsetting Phil when she takes a job with Jack, so he turfs her out of the Queen Vic. Ricky comes to the rescue and asks her to move in with him, which immediately raises Bianca's hackles. After another shock revelation from Ricky, Sam flees... Into the arms of Jack. Find out all about that storyline in the new Soap Scoop, plus how Tony and Maria split up in Coronation Street, how Elliot winds up with a new love in Hollyoaks and how Charity gets into a catfight with Nicola in Emmerdale.

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.