Ryan picks his sexy Santa

Ryan picks his sexy Santa
Ryan picks his sexy Santa (Image credit: BBC)

Janine flings open Stacey's bedroom door... to find Stacey and Lily on the bed. Janine leaves and Ryan comes out from under Lily's cot. Pat thinks Janine is being paranoid when she reveals her suspicions. Ryan comes up with a cover story and Janine falls for it. Janine and Stacey get dressed in their sexy Santa outfits for the Vic Countdown to Christmas party. Pat's outside the Vic and sees Ryan kissing a sexy Santa in an upstairs window at the Vic. Pat assumes it's Janine until she sees Janine exiting the Vic. Jay decides to confront Connor to get the missing money back. Phil finds out what he's intending to do and tries to stop him before he does anything he'll regret. Phil spots Jay just as Jay threatens Connor. Phil's impressed when Jay knees Connor and takes the cash. An elated Jay tells Phil that he wants to change his name to Mitchell. Billy has gone to his 'son's' house to introduce himself. Julie turns up just in time to stop him. Julie reveals that the man isn't their son, he's a former colleague. She fantasised about him being their son to get over the hurt of losing him. Billy is slightly freaked out! Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's 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.