Cherry gets a blast from the past!

Cherry gets a blast from the past!
Cherry gets a blast from the past! (Image credit: BBC)

Cherry tells Simon that she has decided that she needs to get over Jimmi, but it seems that she still needs to convince herself. At The Mill, Cherry hides under the desk when the glamorous Una Philips arrives, and Karen lies to cover her. Cherry explains that Una is the awful mother of a lovely ex-boyfriend called Billy. But Una soon returns and invites Cherry to lunch. When Simon hears that Billy looked like Jude Law, he convinces Cherry to meet Una. Una tells Cherry how none of Billy's girlfriends have measured up to her but, when Una leaves the table, Cherry sneakily calls Billy. Cherry then confronts Una – Billy has a girlfriend that Una is trying to replace! When Una explains that Lauren has a new job in Cardiff and is going to take Billy away, Cherry tells Una she's still a mean old woman! Simon says at least Cherry knows that Billy's not the one – but it's clear to him that Jimmi's still firmly on her mind. Also, after a chance encounter with a teenage girl and a baby pushchair, Simon finds himself in a race against time. 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.