Alfie shuts out Kat

Alfie shuts out Kat
Alfie shuts out Kat (Image credit: BBC/Colin Hutton)

Roxy encourages Alfie to keep his chin up in the wake of the betrayal by Kat. While Tommy is with Kat, Roxy suggests that Alfie take her and Amy to Santa's grotto. At the grotto, Alfie and Roxy come face-to-face with Kat, who is there with Tommy. Kat feels humiliated as Alfie blanks her, but makes a big fuss of Tommy. Max and Tanya survey the carnage of Lauren's meltdown. With a ripped wedding dress and cake trodden into the carpet, there's no option but to call off the wedding. Lauren is disgusted at herself for destroying their wedding day. Max lets Lauren into a secret - he's planning a surprise wedding for Tanya on Christmas Day! Max is livid that Derek has been blackmailing Tanya. Determined to have a word with him, he reveals to Derek that he knows about the blackmail and about Joey and Lauren. Max tells Derek that after Christmas day he wants nothing more to do with him. After Max leaves, Derek boils with rage that his brother is telling him what to do. Intent on making Max pay he makes a phone call that could turn Max's world upside down. Also, Lola is over the moon when Phil brings Lexi home.

Patrick McLennan

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.