Get the scoop on Max's proposal to Vanessa (VIDEO)

Get the scoop on Max's proposal to Vanessa (VIDEO) (Image credit: BBC)

Love rat Max Branning hasn't learned the error of his ways, and he creates a squalid situation in next week's EastEnders. Frustrated by his closeness to Tanya, Vanessa asks him if he really loves her. His weak-kneed response is to ask her to marry him! But the tension between Max and ex-wife Tanya escalates and by the end of the week they get even closer... at Max's engagement party! Get the scoop on EastEnders:

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.