Karen's Christmas party ends in disaster!

Karen's Christmas party ends in disaster!
Karen's Christmas party ends in disaster! (Image credit: BBC)

A tipsy Karen is out to impress her snobby neighbour Pamela Hitchcock who she has invited to the Christmas party along with her daughter Susie. But the party is cut short when a lot of the guests including Pamela start to throw up - could it be food poisoning? Finally Pamela feels well enough to return home. As Karen retrieves her coat they stumble upon Jack and Susie in the spare bedroom together and Karen's humiliation is complete! Lily tells Julia that she and Heston have the social worker coming tomorrow and Zara and Daniel end up in bed together after going out for a meal. Also, Simon almost misses a life threatening diagnosis in a patient in his haste to escape her attentions. 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.