Are Tony and Rachel growing apart?

Are Tony and Rachel growing apart?
Are Tony and Rachel growing apart?

Tony can't connect with Rachel since Harry's abduction. She admits this to Leah who is supportive. Rachel finds her first mother's group intimidating, but she strikes up a friendship with Andy, a recently widowed father of two. Tony confesses to Alf he's struggling with Rachel and Alf persuades him to help coach football again. When Rachel finds out she's not happy. It seems the gulf between them is increasing. Miles tells Leah about his argument with Kirsty and Kirsty tells Leah she shouldn't have interfered. Jai finds out about the pregnancy test. Jail visits Annie, who tells him to ask Kirsty what's going on. Jai admits he knows about the pregnancy test to Kirsty and Miles - Miles is stunned. Kirsty admits she was crying yesterday because she found out she was pregnant. She later reveals she's considering an abortion. Annie and Dexter are having a secret relationship to spare Jai's feelings. Annie doesn't know Jai has been building a website to win her back. Jai misreads Annie's support over the pregnancy debacle as a sign that she wants him back. He brings her a keyring with the domain name on it and is stunned to see her kissing Dexter. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new 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.