Ricky gets engaged!

Ricky gets engaged!
Ricky gets engaged! (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Bianca plans a romantic evening for Ricky and is gutted when Ricky doesn't arrive home. Meanwhile, Peggy finds Sam at Archie's and Sam pleads that she's desperate and Archie offered to help her stay. Sam confesses to Peggy that her bloke in Rio forced her to be a table dancer and she wants to start again with Ricky in Walford. Bianca heads to the Vic to find Ricky and is devastated when she overhears Peggy announcing Ricky and Sam's engagement! Chelsea collects her scratch card winnings and decides to buy a designer handbag. Janine and Ryan challenge each other to divest Chelsea of as much money as possible. Janine finds a designer knock-off in the market and convinces Chelsea that the bag is the real deal and her friend is selling it half price but Ryan scuppers Janine's plan and tells Chelsea it's a fake. Manda prepares for the arrival of her son Adam. Meanwhile, Minty sees Sam, who writes down her number on his shopping list and draws a heart with her name inside. Minty throws away Sam's note just as Adam arrives. The men get on well but later Adam finds Sam's note in the bin. Also, Masood discovers Amira has Trina's bracelet and returns it to Lucas. 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.