Loretta and Jake come clean

Loretta and Jake come clean
Loretta and Jake come clean

Loretta and Jake arrange to meet up in the park, but Loretta's flustered when she bumps into Kris and Charlie, and they don't notice when Charlie wanders off. Jake's annoyed when he turns up late to meet Loretta and she insinuates she thought he'd taken Charlie. As the accusations towards Jake fly and Nancy insists on reporting him to the police, Loretta finally vouches for his whereabouts. Hannah goes to help with the search for Charlie, but Nancy makes it quite clear she's not welcome. A downbeat Hannah returns to the flat. Touched by Darren's kindness, Hannah kisses him. But with his mind on Cindy, Darren pulls away. Ricky turns up to see Anita, excited that they're merging schools next week, and invites her to join him in his shack. He's relieved when he returns to the shack to find her waiting for him but shocked when she reveals she's come to say goodbye. When they discover Charlie sleeping under a pile of clothes she realises that running away isn't the answer. Also; Cindy and Darren bump into each other in the village and both feign upbeat moods to mask their true feelings. Later, Cindy returns to the restaurant to find Tony and Theresa in a compromising position. VIDEO: Click here for Hollyoaks preview clips and backstage gossip 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.