Ryan's in big trouble!

Ryan's in big trouble!
Ryan's in big trouble! (Image credit: BBC)

Stacey is happy to have Kat and Alfie back, but her good mood disappears when she sees Ryan and Janine returning from honeymoon. Stacey tells Max that Ryan is Lily's dad but doesn't want anything to do with her. Ryan blanks Stacey in the Square and Max is furious. Max strides up to Ryan and tells him he's got responsibilities to Lily as a dad. Janine stares at Ryan, stunned! Max calls Vanessa to tell her she left an earring at the house and she arranges to collect it. Max is surprised when the door goes and instead it's Lauren back from school in the States. Vanessa arrives and a flustered Max claims Vanessa is just a friend. Tanya arrives then Stacey pops by to get the phone she left the previous night! Tanya and Vanessa assume that Stacey and Max were up to no good. Kat is not struck on the idea of owning the Vic and tries to convince Alfie to sell it. Alfie gets an idea from Leon to set up a drinking den in the Vic barrel store while they wait for the pub to be refurbished. Alfie tells Kat that the Vic will always be their rightful home and Kat is talked round. 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.