Max wins Tanya round

Max wins Tanya round
Max wins Tanya round (Image credit: BBC)

Max leaves Tanya a bouquet of flowers and a note saying that he loves her. Tanya hides the note from the girls and lies that the flowers are from an old friend. Tanya visits Max at Dot's and she playfully tells him off, but they are soon kissing passionately. The couple quickly get dressed when they hear Dot returning home and Tanya is annoyed with herself for being irresponsible. Phil takes delivery of a gun and hides it. Archie begs Peggy for another chance and breaks down. Phil loads the gun and heads over to Archie's and bursts in to find Peggy and Archie kissing. Phil tells Archie to stay away from his family or he'll do him in and he drops a bullet into his drink as a warning. Stacey invites Whitney on a night out and takes her home to try some outfits on. Whitney mentions the guy who has been hanging around the Square and is taken aback when an unthinking Stacey asks her if she's into older men. Whitney flees when Stacey tells her she needs to start dressing up if she wants to pull older men. Also, Ian and Janine square up to each other over the talent contest; Christian invites Syed back to his and Syed agrees...

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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.