Tom sneaks off!

Tom sneaks off!
Tom sneaks off!

Steph drops Tom off at Darren's and reminds him that Hannah is fragile. Hannah heads to work leaving a thoughtful Darren to play games with Tom. He decides to take to Tom to The Dog for lunch to catch up with Hannah, when Tom admits that he's skiving school. Hannah joins them and Darren notices that she is a little drunk. As Darren warns Hannah about her drinking, Tom has been drinking a left over cocktail. Jack, Frankie, Jake and Steph walk towards The Dog, when Tom emerges and throws up. He's taken to hospital and diagnosed with a hangover. Elliot explains that the call centre team are trying their best, but Sheila creates a new script for them, promising customers that they will be entered into a fictional prize draw. So the team storm out. Later, Sheila tells Elliot that she has been offered a new job, asking him to go with her. He tells her he can't, and they break up. Also; It's Jacqui's first day of her new job as a dinner lady at Hollyoaks High and she lunges at Gaz in the dinner queue. Later, Jacqui explains to him that Gaz had mugged Mercedes. Des confronts Gaz, making him aware that he knows his Dad. 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.