Ruby gives Jono another chance

Jono's persistence pays off when Ruby gives him another chance - but will he admit their relationship to his friends? Nancy's mum makes a surprise visit to Hollyoaks and drops a bombshell that sends Darren reeling. Neil soaks up the adulation from his friends but is secretly tortured by his lie - how long can he avoid getting behind the wheel? Also, Maddie is irked by Callum's ever distant behaviour.

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.