Watch as Dawn gets engaged in Soap Scoop (VIDEO)

Watch as Dawn gets engaged in Soap Scoop (VIDEO) (Image credit: BBC)

Dawn Swann is forced to choose between secret lover Phil Mitchell and boyfriend Garry in EastEnders next week. After opting for Phil, only to be unceremoniously dumped, Dawn turns her attentions back to Garry and, before you know it, Dawn and Garry declare they're getting married! But there are more shocks in store when the couple reveal they are leaving Albert Square... You can see how this story unfolds in the new Soap Scoop, plus Joe goes off the rails in Coronation Street, Cindy and Darren continue plotting in Hollyoaks and Nicola goes into early labour 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.