Phil Mitchell's debts are out of control (VIDEO)

Phil Mitchell has a bad week in EastEnders looming when he winds up in debt to his No 1 enemy in Albert Square. The loan sharks are swimming around the hardman mechanic and when he fails to deliver he gets a vicious beating. But worse is in store when Isaacs threatens the whole Mitchell family and Phil has to go cap in hand to Ian Beale. Learn all about that storyline in the new Soap Scoop, plus how Rosie Webster is humiliated in Coronation Street, what happens when Zoe goes on trial in Hollyoaks and why Laurel quits Emmerdale.

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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.