Meet Whitney's dodgy real mum in the Soap Scoop

Meet Whitney's dodgy real mum in the Soap Scoop (Image credit: BBC)

Troubled Whitney Dean faces more emotional upheaval in EastEnders when her real mum Debra turns up in the square next week. Whitney thinks her mother wants her to move with her to Greece, but Debra has a dark past and may have turned up for reasons other than bonding with her abandoned daughter. Bianca is not impressed. Watch the new Soap Scoop to find out all about that storyline, plus how Tina uncovers David Platt's latest evil plan in Coronation Street, how Zoe's stolen film is exposed in Hollyoaks and futher trouble for Andy Sugden 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.