TV Times – 13 July 2019

THE CAST DALES EXTRA

Turn for the latest on

EastEnders, Neighbours

and Home & Away

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Grief: Sam

helps Lydia

let go of her

emotions

H

aving first proposed at

Smithy Cottage, and then

again at Butlers Farm,

Pete pops the question

to Rhona once again, this time with

a bit more oomph.

His efforts work a treat –

Rhona says ‘yes’ and leads him

to the bedroom, where the couple

get passionate for the first time

since her hysterectomy. But while

everything looks peachy on the

surface, it’s clear that both of them

are secretly wondering whether

marriage is a step too far.

Earlier, Rhona is noticeably

awkward when Manpreet

mentions the engagement, and

falters as she takes in the enormity of

what she’s doing. Meanwhile, when

Pete later bumps into Leyla at the

shop, his ex-fiancé correctly guesses

that he’s still struggling with the fact

Rhona can’t give him children.

‘Even before Rhona had the

hysterectomy, this was an issue,’

reveals Anthony Quinlan, who

plays the broody farmer.

‘He dropped it into conversation

that he would like children of his

own, and she shut him down. Pete

being Pete, he just accepted it and

thought that going forward, things

might change. But he wasn’t being

true to himself.’

The pair keep up appearances

but things get very tricky when

Vanessa throws them a surprise

engagement party at The Woolpack.

Anthony adds, ‘They didn’t want

to make a big show of things, and

this adds more stress to their

relationship. It’s a lovely gesture,

but it’s not what they wanted.’

As the guests celebrate, the

‘happy couple’ look like they’re

anticipating a massive tax bill.

Will either of them find the courage

to call things off?

Nuptials no-no?

Damon and Maxine

Ring true? Pete

gets down

on one knee

for Rhona

Oh, baby! Sadie

goes into labour

HOLLYOAKS

Pete proposes

to Rhona again

• but are they

both getting

cold feet?

Third time

unlucky?

W

ith her traumatic past having been unearthed,

Lydia is desperate to leave the village, and despite

Sam’s best efforts to stop her, she flees in a cab. But

as she arrives at the station, Sam is there waiting for her.

Reaching out to his fiancée, he urges her to go with

him to the site where she buried the body of the stillborn

baby she gave birth to as a frightened teen, and says he

won’t stop her from leaving if she doesn’t find the visit

helpful. Lydia agrees and, once there, she finally gives

in to the grief she has bottled up for years. Having

confronted her past, can she now face a brighter future?

Facing the past

Laura Norton says she’d like Kerry Wyatt’s backstory

to be explored, to see why her character is so self-

destructive. ‘I’d love to see something come up from the

past,’ she tells us, ‘where you get to find out what has

happened to Kerry; perhaps a nice flashback episode.’

Laura, 36, adds she’d also like Kerry to get pregnant ‘to

see if the second time round she can do it differently’.

Robert .......... Ryan Hawley

Aaron ............. Danny Miller

Dawn ......... Olivia Bromley

Victoria .... Isabel Hodgins

Lee ................. Kris Mochrie

Rhona .............. Zoe Henry

Pete ...... Anthony Quinlan

Leyla ........... Roxy Shahidi

Lydia ............... Karen Blick

Sam ........... James Hooton

Vanessa .. Michelle Hardwick

Manpreet ... Rebecca Sarker

Doug ........... Duncan Preston

Liv ....................... Isobel Steele

Nicola ........... Nicola Wheeler

Bernice ....... Samantha Giles

Jai ........................ Chris Bisson

Laurel ...... Charlotte Bellamy

Bob ........... Tony Audenshaw

Bear ............ Joshua Richards

* Doctors is taking a Summer

break and will be back on

screens on 2 September.

Maxine’s fairy-tale wedding is in

jeopardy when she and Damon

are told they’ll lose the booking

for their dream venue if they

don’t cough up the cash within

a day. With the clock ticking,

will they dip into the crowd-

funding money raised to give

‘ill’ Maxine private healthcare?

The couple later view the

venue with Grace and Sienna,

but are gobsmacked when the

manager reveals the amount

they have paid only covers the

first instalment, and they still

owe £7k. Meanwhile, Sienna gets

a shock of her own when she

spots two children whom she

believes are her twins Sebastian

and Sophie; snatched last year

by her ex, Warren. Is she right?

Elsewhere, pregnant Sadie

returns and asks Liam for more

cash not to give Harry an alibi

for the hit-and-run that left Grace

paralysed. The gangster comes

good and warns the brunette

she’ll be dead if she ever comes

back. But Sadie is going nowhere

fast as she then goes into labour.

Also this week, Joel tells Goldie

nothing can happen between

them. And as Tony confides in

Breda about how he has failed

as a father, has the killer granny

lined up her next victim?

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