Heston tells Ruth a secret

Heston tells Ruth a secret
Heston tells Ruth a secret (Image credit: BBC)

As the assertiveness training course continues, Ruth is finding it easier to open up to the group. Heston is touched by her honesty but, during a role play session, Heston pushes Ruth too far. The new, confident, Ruth loses it, saying it's a good job he was never a father to which a tearful Heston blurts out that he was a father, once. Ruth's devastated by what she's said. Meanwhile, Michelle is organising a family fun event to promote the MMR jab and is interviewing clowns. The successful clown is Tingle Tangle - but upon leaving, he's attacked by another clown called Winky. Michelle learns that Tingle Tangle and Winky are brothers and looks on in delight when the pair resolve their differences with a pie fight! Also, Daniel flirts with Zara, under the impression she fancies him after what Simon implied. Zara sets him straight but cocksure Daniel simple believes she's playing hard to get. Later, Cherry vows to find Simon a new man, much to his horror. 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.