Hollyoaks shock: Carmel takes Theresa's baby!

Hollyoaks Gemma Merna tells Soaplife that Carmel gets her revenge when she forces Theresa to give her Calvin’s baby! Carmel gives Theresa a terrible ultimatum – she gives her Calvin’s baby or Carmel turns her in to the police. Why? "She’s thinking about Calvin, what Theresa did and how she must be punished." How can she take her cousin's own child? "In Carmel’s mind, the baby is hers. It’s Calvin’s baby therefore it is her baby because they were supposed to be the ones who were going to have a child together. Instead, Carmel tells Theresa that she won’t report her if she lets her keep baby Angel." It's a terrible thing to do – what is Carmel thinking? "She’s really angry and wants to make Theresa pay for ruining her life. But also she dearly wants to bring the baby up. She believes she can give Angel a better life than Theresa, who’s young and still wants to go out and have fun." How does she think she can keep Theresa away from her own baby when they live in the same village... and house? "Her plan is bound to unravel."

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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.