Lexi proposes to Carl

Lexi proposes to Carl
Lexi proposes to Carl (Image credit: Neil Sherwood)

Carl puts pressure on Chas for his money but she threatens to tell Lexi about their kiss and Carl agrees to wait until Debbie's release. Lexi is unsettled and feels even more insecure when Lisa says that she'll always be a second rate Chas in Carl's eyes. Lexi prepares romantic meal and when Carl says he loves her she proposes. Carl hesitates so a desperate Lexi reminds him she knows all his secrets and Carl feels forced to accept. Paddy has had enough of Aaron's blackmail and he decides to confess to Chas that he's in love with her but his resolve wanes when he realises that Chas is feeling down and instead he heads out to spend time with Marlon. Meanwhile, Marlon worries that his drunken fumble with Chas may soon become village gossip and he's nervous about how Chas will react. Diane learns that Andy hasn't visited Sarah and when she stops by at Butler's she's shocked by the state of the farm. Diane warns Andy to pull himself together for Sarah and arranges for him to see her that afternoon. Andy gets delayed and arrives too late to see his daughter. When he complains that he needs regular access Lisa insists he sort himself out or he'll never see her at all. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the 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.