Lauren hears some home truths

Lauren hears some home truths
Lauren hears some home truths

Newt offers to help Darren redecorate the flat after school. Darren feels freaked when it's time for Newt to leave and tempts him to stay with a curry. Meanwhile, Lauren and Theresa are in trouble after Anita is forced to grass them up for the previous night's high jinks. Lauren confronts Anita but she smarts when Anita points out that Newt thinks she behaves like an idiot. Lauren heads over to Darren's flat to find Newt but she's hurt when she overhears Newt talking about her on the phone and she turns off the fuse box in a fit of anger. Darren and Newt are plunged into darkness and Darren has a full-blown panic attack and Newt is forced to call for an ambulance... Warren warns a hungover Spencer never to bring anyone back to the flat without asking first. Warren realises the effect his worries over Louise are having on Spencer and decides it's time to move on. The boys get rid of everything that belonged to Louise and Spencer's thrilled that it's just going to be him and his big brother from now on. Also, Myra convinces an offended Mercedes and Malachy to stay; Zak is allergic to Michaela's puppies. VIDEO: Click here for Hollyoaks preview clips and backstage gossip Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, Soap Scoop Get all the latest soap gossip delivered straight to your door. Subscribe to Soaplife magazine today

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.