‘Hollyoaks’ spoilers: Donna-Marie Quinn BLACKMAILS James

Donna Marie Quinn is played by Lucy Jo Hudson in Hollyoaks
Donna-Marie Quinn is no stranger to a spot of blackmail. (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Donna-Marie (Lucy Jo-Hudson) finds a way to get what she needs in tonight’s Hollyoaks on at 6.30pm (See our TV Guide for full listings).

Desperate to win over her daughter, Juliet (Niamh Blackshaw), schemer Donna-Marie turns up at James Nightingale’s (Gregory Finnegan) flat and reveals she knows about his secret kiss with John Paul McQueen (James Sutton).

James Nightingale is played by Gregory Finnegan in Hollyoaks

James Nightingale had a secret kiss with John-Paul McQueen. (Image credit: Channel 4)

Donna Marie threatens to spill the beans but says she will stay silent if he does as she wants.

In exchange for her silence, she asks James to get the non-molestation order against her, removed. Will James play ball?

Shaq Qureshi is played by Omar Malik in Hollyoaks

Shaq Qureshi (pictured above) is in Sami's bad books.  (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Elsewhere, Sami Maalik (Rishi Nair) gives Shaq Qureshi (Omar Malik) a roasting for not showing up for Verity Hutchinson (Eva O’Hara) as he’d promised. 

To stop the arguing, Verity asks Shaq to invite Theresa McQueen (Jorgie Porter) for dinner. 

However, Verity soon offends Shaq with her comment about Theresa being a McQueen. 

Martine Deveraux worries about her cancer diagnosis in Hollyoaks

Martine Deveraux, who's got breast cancer, wants to help her daughter, Celeste.  (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Elsewhere, Martine Deveraux (Kelle Bryan) takes matters into her own hands when she hears that her daughter, Celeste Faroe (Andrea Ali) has received an application for paralegal work. 

However Celeste is not too pleased to discover that her well-meaning mum has filled out the application on her behalf!  

Sami Maalik played by Rishi Nair in Hollyoaks

Sami Maalik wants Shaq out of Hollyoaks. (Image credit: Channel 4)

Plus, Sami is still on a mission to get rid of Shaq.

Misbah Maalik (Harvey Virdi) makes it clear that Shaq won’t be going anywhere and she wants him to stay put. 

However, Sami isn’t having any of it. Determined to see the back of Shaq he later calls a mystery person and asks for their help. 

Who is he enlisting with his plotting? 

Hollyoaks airs Monday-Thursday on C4 at 6.30pm with the next episode following on E4 at 7pm

Tess Lamacraft
Senior Writer for What's On TV, TV Times, TV & Satellite week, Whattowatch.com

Tess is a senior writer for What’s On TV, TV Times, TV & Satellite and WhattoWatch.com She's been writing about TV for over 25 years and worked on some of the UK’s biggest and best-selling publications including the Daily Mirror where she was assistant editor on the weekend TV magazine, The Look, and Closer magazine where she was TV editor. She has freelanced for a whole range of websites and publications including We Love TV, The Sun’s TV Mag, Woman, Woman’s Own, Fabulous, Good Living, Prima and Woman and Home.