WITH STEVE CORRIE 7-DAY CHEATS! SHOCK BU ’ UNLUCKY LADY? DEATH! JEALOUS RAGE! 38 9 770966 849166 INSIDE! DANNY DYER TELLS ALL! Stuartmakeshismove onLinda–andthere’s nothing Mick can do... Plus! MERCEDES! CHAS THE NEW QUEEN GOES INTO OF SOAP! LABOUR! Issue 38 • 22 - 28 Sep 2018 embodies the snobbery of Annie Walker and posseses Yo u r s t a r s the backchat of Bet Lynch, here’s no you can help yourself to a while adding her own unique this week! greater postion bag of crisps and a glass lack of tact to any occasion! in soap than of Coke anytime, day or And over in Hollyoaks village 4 pub landlady. Not night. What’s not to love? this week, a new landlady only can you is born, fully formed, lordr it behind looking as if she’s been that bar, feeling “Pub landlady is the there forever – Mercedes likek the Queen best job in soap…” McQueen. I have only one off the Street, question for Hollyoaks SquareS or village – This year has been bosses about Mercy taking bbut you also hear very generous to us soap over the Dog In The Pond: aall the gossip, have viewers, gifting us two why didn’t it happen an uninterrupted fantastic new landladies. bloomin’ years ago? Danny Dyer view of all the big Firstly, the Rovers Return’s Steven Murphy, Editor “Mick realises he has shhowdowns, and Jenny Connor, who truly [email protected] to get in with whoever is running the wing…” The BIG 38 stories... Coronation Street You’ve got 8 Cormac dies in front of Ryan! a lovely pear 18 David is mad at Billy taking in Josh 22 Jim tries to blackmail Johnny Why, thank you 29 Jude faints at the sight of blood Jack! 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Emmerdale 34 Soapbox 10 Charity drives over a dog’s paw 48 10 Totally True 26 Daz confronts Liam over Bernice Kylie Facts About… 27 Chas goes into labour with Grace borrowed them Michael Praed 29 Rishi is feeling like a spare part from me, but it’s nice to have (Emmerdale’s Frank) 31 Jessie dumps poor Marlon them back 54 Exclusive 44 Moira walks in on Matty and Vic competition! 55 Star watch SimonGregson Hollyoaks 58 Style watch “Steve thinks Tracy is 16 Darren & Mandy’s affair is rumbled 92 Who’s In & Out? allowing him to sleep 29 Sienna is released from prison 94 Puzzles with someone else!” 30 Luke & Ollie prepare to run away 96 The Hot List 38 Mercedes takes over the pub! 98 Hits & Misses 44 Neighbours 38 28 Gary steals to pay Xanthe’s fees 46 Chloe is offered money for sex! Sick Of It Home and Away 28 Tori wants Robbo as a sperm donor 30 Hunter decides to leave the Bay Dramas Karl Pilkington Natalie J Robb 31 Casualty Blake meets his grandma stars in a new “It doesn’t sit right Doctors comedy-drama 31 Daniel appears on TV – turn to p59 to with Moira, as Matty 47 Casualty Ciara has a miscarriage ind out more… and Vic are related!” 50 Holby City Roxanna communicates GETTY PHOTOS: First withthe week’s HOTTESTT headlines... Hot THIS WEEK! EASTENDERS | BBC1 MONDAY Mick’s jailhouse shock! AS STUART HEADS BACK TO WALFORD, MICK HAS A ROUGH INTRODUCTION TO PRISON LIFE… Mick makes some new friends on the inside – and a few enemies! ick’s worst fears are brought to life this week, as he languishes in prison, powerless to protect his family – while evil Stuart Mmakes a beeline for the Queen Vic! Poor Linda and the rest of the Carters are sitting ducks when the evil brute turns up and issues the clan with a shocking ultimatum. Meanwhile, as that drama unfolds in the Square, Mick faces a desperate fight for his own survival, after life on the inside takes a perilous turn… “Mick is devastated by the whole situation,” sighs actor Danny Dyer, who plays him. “Stuart was one of his oldest friends, and it kills him to think that he didn’t even know who this man was. “Once Mick walks through the gates, he’s on his own” “He knows that Stuart is a threat to his family, though ultimately Mick has to try to survive and get through the prison process,” adds the star. “As soon as Mick walks through the gates he realises that he is on his own. It is quite a dangerous prison that he’s been sent to, and like any normal guy who goes to jail, it’s a real wake-up call.” Despite the terrible predicament he is in, Mick is desperate to call his son, Johnny, and wish him a happy birthday. So straight away he puts out some feelers in the hope of acquiring a contraband mobile phone, and is pointed in the direction of another inmate, Fraser. CONTINUED OVER ↘ Mick wants to get hold of a mobile, so he can wish his son a happy birthday lnsideSoap 5 INSIDE SCOOP Mick will have to keep his wits about him if he’s to get through his ordeal ↘ FROM PREVIOUS PAGE “Mick realises that if he’s going to survive, he needs to get in with whoever is running the wing,” explains Danny. “That man is Fraser – and Mick needs a mobile, or a ‘burner’ as you call them, so that when he rings Johnny his boy doesn’t realise that his dad is in prison.” In order to get the phone, Fraser tells Mick that he needs a favour in return – and with no other options, Mick is forced to comply. The trouble is, a ‘favour’ for Fraser has some serious strings attached – and the ramifications are huge. So imagine Mick’s Getting mixed up with Fraser imprisonment as he is finally horror when he carries out his could be the biggest mistake discharged from hospital. mission, only to later find that Mick ever makes, as an His twisted cheer doesn’t himself in Fraser’s bad books! exchange between the pair go unnoticed by daughter “I think Mick believes that leaves him fearing for his life. Zara, who accuses her father WHO’S he is not going to be in prison All Mick can do is try to put of being consumed with for long – he is saying that he things straight with the guy, hatred for the Carters. THAT didn’t shoot Stuart, so he though a close call with another With that, Stuart sets out reckons that he’ll be out in a prisoner helps Mick realise that to prove a point to his dubious GIRL? matter of days,” shares Danny. it won’t be easy. His cellmate daughter and decides to “He doesn’t know the prison Bob advises him to lie low, but head to Albert Square for a Mick encounters a rules and is still trying to find Mick goes against this advice showdown with Linda. He his feet, stay out of any grief and confronts Fraser. By doing later assures Zara that he blonde bombshell… and do his time – but he so, has he sealed his own fate? is a changed man, but can Mick is forced to carry out has no idea just how much Back in Walford, Stuart is Stuart really be trusted? many ‘favours’ for Fraser trouble he’s really in.” revelling in his old friend’s Meanwhile, behind bars, this week, including the tension builds for Mick, as conspiring with a woman Fraser’s threat weighs heavily who pays him a visit! Mick thinks he’ll be on him. How much longer can After sitting down with out in a matter of days he hang on for? And will Mick his mystery visitor, Mick ever see Walford again? agrees to what is being – but he has no idea!” Laura-Jayne Tyler 6 lnsideSoap “Mick will want revenge on Stuart!” Danny takes us behind the scenes of Mick’s prison hell – and teases some of the drama to come… What was your what you can do than on this massive reaction when stage, and I think he’s done that. you irst heard that Mick would Would you like Mick to bring be sent to jail? Stuart down once and for all? It’s tied in lovely Yeah, of course! I don’t know what with the Stuart happens, but Mick is going to be storyline. With Stuart, all bets are slightly adjusted, I would have thought, off – anything can happen. And what as a human being. Ultimately, he’s I’m really pleased about is that we going to want revenge for everything, don’t just leave it at the prison gates, though. All you have in prison is your we actually delve into the darkness of own thoughts – and Mick’s been what it’s like to try to survive in jail. thinking about Stuart a lot. I’m really happy to be focussed on that. You must be thrilled with your Was it odd to be daughter Dani’s recent success on out of the Vic and Love Island. What’s this we hear on the prison set? about your family being ofered The job changes your own reality TV show? when you go It’ll either be brilliant and off the Square.