Zara comes clean

Zara comes clean
Zara comes clean (Image credit: BBC)

After waking up in sweats and hiding her HRT pills, Zara goes out of her way to avoid Daniel, but he realises something is definitely wrong when he sees her at work despite her telling him she would be visiting her dad. Daniel questions Zara and tries to get her to have lunch with him. After she rejects the offer, he blackmails Cherry into helping him with the situation. During the day, Ruth tells Zara if she insists on keeping her secret from Daniel she should at least stop avoiding him. Meanwhile, Daniel confronts Zara in the bathroom where she finally confesses she is going through premature menopause and that she probably won't be able to conceive. Daniel tries to comfort Zara but she ends up getting more upset and goes home alone to cry on her bed. Elsewhere, Jimmy struggles to hold himself together after discovering Cherry had a kitchen mishap when trying to make dinner. However, after a joint cleaning session, the two end up in a passionate embrace. 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.