Angelo meets mysterious Shandi

Angelo meets mysterious Shandi
Angelo meets mysterious Shandi

Angelo is driving when he finds a broken down van. He offers the driver, a hippy-type woman called Shandi, a lift to town. She's flirtatious and Angelo gets flustered. When she suggests they pull over and take a nap on the back seat, Angelo's not sure what she's implying. Is Shandi coming onto him? John tells Xavier he won't ask for Gina's hand in marriage until Xavier gives his blessing. John can't take any stress at the moment, so if Xavier doesn't agree, it would cause too much aggro. Xavier tells April that if he knew Gina loved John, he'd approve. April writes a list of questions that will give Xavier his answer. But suddenly he senses the depth of Gina's love for John. Will he give them his blessing? Marilyn won't reconcile with Sid. Sid confides in Nicole, who advises him to be more understanding of Marilyn's beliefs. But Sid's instincts tell him to rid Mitzy from Marilyn's life. Marilyn asks Sid to dinner with her and Mitzy. Sid agrees, but things get heated. Marilyn says if he's asking her to choose, she chooses Mitzy. Meanwhile, Mitzy tells a downbeat Ruby that she'll find love within the next two months. Ruby is overjoyed. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.