Lisa and Zak Dingle are set to remarry in a huge ceremony, but in true Dingle style they make a right old pig’s ear of it in Emmerdale.

The Dingle family are still reeling from the shock news that Lisa Dingle (Jane Cox) is on borrowed time, with Belle (Eden Taylor-Draper) in particular taking the news hard.

Zak Dingle (Steve Halliwell) later went missing after Lisa’s revelation, but returned after he’d had some thinking time and shocked everyone when he popped the question to his one true love.

The family are thrilled when Harriet (Katherine Dow Blyton) agrees to marry them on such short notice, and with just two days to plan such a special day they all rally round to make it perfect.

The day arrives and Lisa comes down stairs in a gorgeous dress, and the three women, Lydia, Lisa and Belle, can’t wait to get her to the altar. It’s set to be the perfect day.

But disaster strikes when they discover the pigs have escaped and are running loose. They can’t leave with the animals roaming free, so the bridal party, dressed in their glad rags, resort to chasing the escaped pigs, which results in Cain falling flat in the mud.

So Lisa rolls up her sleeves and gets the job done herself.

Meanwhile, Zak and the wedding guests wait patiently for her to arrive, with Zak just a teeny bit nervous. But the congregation are left in shock when she finally turns up having tackled the pigs and covered head to toe in mud, and the day ends in romance and laughter.

Actor Steve Halliwell told metro.co.uk that it felt right for the pair to remarry after his affair nearly destroyed the family.

‘I was disappointed when Zak had an affair, personally,’ he said. ‘I think it made a good story but there was something about those two, us two, that I felt should remain solid.

‘But that’s not up to me to decide, so you do the story and the scenes as best you can. So for me, the fact that ended sadly for the character, because she died, I think for me I thought the one thing to do is get back with Lisa for the story and for the audience as well.’

Jane Cox said of the wedding: ‘It’s big. It comes on quickly, Zak proposes to her out of the blue really, and they’re very happy about it, the whole family is really happy. So that’s really cheery.’

Steve added it’ll be a little bit of light before the gloom of Lisa’s death.

‘There’s fun times together before the tragedy might happen, it’s not all doom and gloom from day one,’ he said. ‘We’ve found out she’s ill and she’s going to die but we don’t know when.’

Emmerdale’s Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) has had a lot to deal with of late, particularly with his and Robert Sudgen’s (Ryan Hawley) roller coaster ride of trying to secure themselves a surrogate. But he’s not expecting to be blind sided by this latest setback.

Liv Flaherty (Isobel Steele) has proven trying for Aaron over the years, but her latest escapades will leave him reeling as he learns a shocking truth about what she’s been up to.

He’s set to learn the extent of her lies and deceit and will struggle to reconcile her behaviour with the sister he thought he knew.

Aaron is horrified to find out that she has been blackmailing Maya Stepney (Louisa Clein) over her abuse of Jacob for £10k, forcing the teacher to sell her car to raise the cash.

There’s so much to unpack from this for him – he realises it means not only was she so desperate to help fund his surrogacy that she’d sink to such low depths and lose sight of right and wrong, it also means she allowed the abuse of Jacob to continue so that she could make monetary gain.

Her morals have gone completely skew-whiff, and there he was thinking she was on the straight and narrow.

Aaron is stunned and guilty at what his sister is capable of, will he blame himself for taking such drastic action for him?

Or will he see red and send her packing, realising no surrogate will ever touch them with such a criminal under their roof? Has Liv lost everything?

Steve McDonald’s (Simon Gregson) worries just seem to be getting worse and worse; first it was money troubles, then it was being held up at gun point, and now he’s involved in a hit and run in Coronation Street.

Tracy won’t be pleased. At all.

When Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) finds himself under the finger of suspicion over the robbery, Steve realises he has to come clean to the police that it was him behind the wheel. He tells them he was threatened and confesses that he picked the fare up illegally, but will they believe him or could he be in serious trouble?

Steve is still on edge from it all, with good reason, but Tracy (Kate Ford) tells him time is money and he needs to get back out there scouting for business.

He does as he’s told, armed with a baseball bat, and picks up three lads from a bowling alley. But he hits a snag when they refuse to pay.

He grabs his baseball bat as one of the lads does a runner, but as he gives chase, the lad is hit by a car.

Steve’s left looking as guilty as sin and with his licence already hanging in the balance, what will happen to him now?

Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) is at the end of her tether with Laurie Shelby’s (Kyle Pryor) sexual harassment, and she finally snaps in Hollyoaks. He needs stopping, and she feels she’s the one to do it.

To her horror, Nancy (Jessica Fox), who believes in Laurie’s innocence, is made Sienna’s mentor, and she asks Sienna to hand books out in class. But Sienna’s left enraged when she realises the book is the Taming Of The Shrew, another little goading from Laurie. He’s enjoying this.

Sienna goes to see Sinead in a bid to get her to admit what’s happened and finally lift the lid on what the abuser has been up to. She can tell there’s something Sinead is holding back, but without getting to the whole truth, she plots to get her own back.

Things escalate quickly and Sienna has Laurie tied up, trying to force him to admit what he’s done. She clearly didn’t learn from Brody that kidnap isn’t the best way to go.

But she’s left horrified when he breaks free and she runs after him, catching up with him in time. By the time Liberty and Brody arrive, she has him pinned on the floor and is threatening him with a fire extinguisher.

They desperately try and convince her there are other ways to deal with this, many of them that don’t result in her risking prison time, and Laurie is let go.

Back at home, Laurie is fuming and he seeks out Sinead. Finding her upstairs, he rages that he believes she told Sienna everything and he rapes her.

A heartbroken Sinead finally realises what needs to be done, and she comes clean to Tony and Diane about what’s been happening to her. Will she finally get justice?

Jane Cox’s decision to leave Emmerdale as Lisa Dingle shocked fans after her 23 years in the soap, with the character returning after a sabbatical to reveal to her family she is terminally ill.

Lisa is set to pass away in the coming months having finally revealed her diagnosis of amyloidosis to her family after weeks of Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) carrying the burden alone. Actress Jane revealed to metro.co.uk that killing Lisa off was the only suitable ending for her character after so many years as the matriarch of the soap, as well as being able to raise awareness for terminal illnesses.

Asked what she thought of Lisa dying, she said: ‘I think it’s better really, I think it tells a complete story, and there’s a lot of people out there who are dealing with terminal illnesses.

‘So it tells the story properly I think, I could go to Spain for years or whatever, but I think it gives a truthful hopefully end to Lisa’s story.’

The actress added that she’d broken the news that she’d chosen to quit gently to her Dingle family so that they wouldn’t have a sudden shock at her departure.

‘I did speak to my Dingle family, I did speak to people,’ she said. ‘Just so they wouldn’t be too upset or shocked – or pleased!’

Steve Halliwell, who plays Zak Dingle, added: ‘I think the viewers will be very very sad, because it’s one of those couples that in spite of all their fallouts and divorce, all sorts of things had happened, they still have a kind of bond which will reappear in the coming weeks.’

‘I’ve been part of her for 23 years, so it’s a long time,’ Jane added: ‘But I’m 66 now, and I felt – I’m very young – but I wanted to not be working at this pace so much in the future, and I’ve got lots of other things that I want to do, not necessarily acting but there’s lots of things that I’m interested in, and if I didn’t do it now, I probably wouldn’t.’

She added that she’d had to force herself to ‘take the plunge’ and quit so that she could pursue other things.

‘The world is out there to be explored and I’m very happy to be living a simpler life and have times for friends,’ she said, explaining the long hours filming leaving little time for much else motivated her to make the change.

‘Don’t get me wrong, it’s been my dream job!’ she added.

Lisa and Zak are now set to get remarried in some hilarious scenes which in typical Dingle style will see their wedding be interrupted by various calamities, including an escaped pig and Cain falling face first in the mud.

Steve added: ‘There’s fun times together before the tragedy might happen, it’s not all doom and gloom from day one. We’ve found out she’s ill and she’s going to die.

‘As we all know in in our own lives, we all die some time. You can’t stop living because you die, can you, because you’re going to die? It’s imminent but we don’t know when.’

Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami) is looking to the future after the anniversary of his brother Shakil’s death hits home in EastEnders – and he is about to reach a big decision that could leave Stacey Fowler (Lacey Turner) stunned.

As Kush and Bex Fowler (Jasmine Armfield) reminisce by Shakil’s grave, Bex ‘s emotions run high and she admits her love for Kush, forcing him to rebuff her. While Bex runs away, Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) is put out to find Kush ignoring her messages.

Kat ignores Kush and attends an appointment with Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) the next day and when Kush turns up, he apologises for being distant and opens up about losing Shakil.

Kat tries to take his mind off of his grief later and he is touched and grateful when she brings Arthur round to spend some quality time with him. But that’s when he makes his decision – he wants joint custody of his son. How will Stacey react to this?

Kat panics over what she has triggered and when Kush invites Stacey and Martin (James Bye) over to talk about it, Kat determines to avoid the topic and bring an early end to the night. But can she stop Kush from bringing it up?

Later, the couple decide that it’s time to make their relationship public and they go about it by sharing a snog in the Queen Vic.

But will Stacey be angry at Kat for planting the idea of joint custody in Kush’s head – and will Kat find herself with divided loyalties?

One to watch: Tuesday 21st May at 7:30pm.

Lofty (Lee Mead)’s back from his trip with his gran and a relieved Dominic (David Ames) is delighted to see him and looks forward to catching up with him. Lofty doesn’t look quite as happy, though. Has Dominic’s lack of communication over the past few weeks affected him more than he’s letting on?

Meanwhile Chloe (Amy Lennox) is struggling to come to terms with the news that Dominic is Ange’s son. Dominic tries to get his new family together, but with Evan (Jack Ryder) apparently pursuing his own agenda, Chloe finds herself torn. And Sacha (Bob Barrett) decides it’s time he moved out of Jac’s house. Here are all the spoilers to look out for.

1. Lofty’s back! Dominic is pleased to see him, but Lofty is acting strangely. He tells Donna that Dominic hardly contacted him while he was away and he felt lonely and insecure – but could there be more to it?

2. As Ange (Dawn Steele) predicted, Chloe hasn’t reacted well to finding out about Dom. In fact she isn’t speaking to Ange at all. Dominic is desperate to unite his family and comes up with a plan.

3. Sacha’s got mice! Or his empty house has, as he hears from his neighbour who’s keeping an eye on it. This makes Sacha start to realise that it’s time he stood on his own two feet again and moved out of Jac’s house to live on his own again. Jac (Rosie Marcel) is worried that he isn’t ready and tries to convince him to stay, but a patient helps Sacha to plot a way forward.

4. There’s a horse in the peace garden! Why is it there, and will someone move it before it can do irreparable damage to the Linden Cullen Memorial Shrubbery?

5. Chloe is in a vulnerable state and on the edge of self-destructing. It seems that the one person she can confide in is Evan. He’s supportive and happy to help, but is he really acting in Chloe’s best interests or his own?

6. One patient gives Sacha a very welcome gift, and another is delighted when his condition turns out to be worse than he thought.

7. Lofty drops a bombshell that threatens to drive a wedge between him and his husband. Dominic reacts by trying to take revenge, which leads him straight into the terrifying path of someone he thought he’d seen the last of a long time ago…

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It’s the sound of heartbreak we can hear from soapland this week as Coronation Street’s Shona (Julia Goulding) finds out David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) kissed another woman, and EastEnders’ Bernadette Taylor (Claire Norris) is gutted to be dumped by Brooke.

There are bigger things to worry about for the likes of Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) in Coronation Street when he gets caught up in a hit and run, and for Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) in EastEnders when he realises he’s on the wrong side of Ben Mitchell (Max Bowden).

Karen Taylor (Lorraine Stanley) is also worried in the wake of Dinah’s (Anjela Lauren Smith) death – does she face prison time?

And in Hollyoaks – the truth about rapist Laurie Shelby (Kyle Pryor) is out. What will happen next?

Coronation Street

Steve is forced back out to work before he’s ready, but as he’s still afraid he arms himself with a baseball bat. His fare – three lads – decide to leg it before they pay, so Steve gives chase, but watches on in horror as one of them is hit by a car.

Natalie clearly has a crush on David and he does what he can to try and put her off, but Nick tells him he needs to keep her sweet to buy her silence. He does as he’s told but it backfires, when she kisses him and it gets back to Shona. Has he ruined everything?

Toyah and Leanne decide to attempt a heist on Rick Neelan’s office after coming to believe Nick must have borrowed money from him. Sarah was meant to help too, but dropped out last minute. As the women ransack the office, Sarah shows up – but so does Rick’s lackey Sharon. They’ve been rumbled, and they’re for it now!

EastEnders

Billy is in serious danger and has no idea – Lola drunkenly tells him everything about Ben’s plan. Billy decides to tell Phil everything, while Ben denies it all. He decides there is only one thing to do to solve the situation – get rid of Billy.

While at Shakil’s graveside Bex blurts out she’s in love with Kush, but she’s left embarrassed when he rebuffs her. He later ignores Kat’s calls, and the pair hit the rocks when Kat gets in the way of his attempt at getting joint custody of Arthur. Could he be considering what Bex told him?

In the wake of Dinah’s death, Karen starts to get worried. She reveals to Chantelle she’s afraid she’s going to get sent to prison.

Emmerdale

Maya finally receives her comeuppance after David pulls some stunts and manages to work out that Jacob is still in contact with her. When he intercepts a communication that Jacob is taking her her passport and cash, and goes to meet her himself. The two end up arguing, so Maya flees. But David plays his trump card – the police arrive.

Aaron is left reeling when he learns the extent of Liv’s involvement in the whole Maya /Jacob saga, and how she knew about the abuse and didn’t come clean. What will he do next?

The Dingles’ wedding day arrives, but before Lisa can leave for the church disaster strikes and she’s left scrambling after escaped pigs in her bridal gown.

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is set to air a special episode surrounding Sinead’s rape horror – after coming clean to Tony and Diane about what’s been happening, she goes to the police. But she puts herself at risk by telling a lie.

Sienna is fed up with Laurie getting away with his crimes, so she takes matters into her own hands and kidnaps him. But things go awry when he escapes and she’s forced to go down a potentially dark route in a bid to get him to confess.

James and Harry have been working hard at their relationship, appreciating each other even more after James came close to being murdered by the evil Breda McQueen. But their bliss is not set to last as Harry will discover James has been seriously disloyal.

Plus!

• There’s heartbreak for Bernadette when she’s dumped by Brooke, but Tiffany is shocked when she digs a bit deeper and finds out what really happened in EastEnders.
• Kirk leaves Coronation Street in search of stardom.
• Dawn wants to make it up to Ryan in Emmerdale, but will he listen?
• Darren starts a delivery job for the Hutch in Hollyoaks but he’s caught out in a big lie.
• Imran dumps Toyah after overhearing her talking to Leanne in Corrie.
• Cain is in for a shock when Lisa asks him to take over guardianship of Kyle.
• EastEnders’ Mel continues her plan against Jack by using Max. What is she up to?

Hayley Tamaddon has announced she is engaged to boyfriend Adrian, just weeks after revealing her pregnancy.

The former Coronation Street actress – who played Andrea Beckett on the soap – shared the news on Twitter, giving fans a glimpse at her gigantic diamond ring.

Alongside the snap, the 42-year-old told her 128k followers: ‘HE PROPOSED ………….. I said YES!!!!

‘This year is turning out to be quite wonderful. (sic).’

And right on cue, her famous pals rushed to celebrate the good news with her.

James Jordan simply wrote: ‘Congratulations babe,’ while Nitin Ganatra said: ‘Big love xxx congratulations xx.’

‘Congratulations to both of you!! Absolutely fantastic news, can’t wait until you’re home so we can celebrate,’ Julia Goulding posted.

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And Jane Danson added: ‘Aw congratulations,’ alongside a heart emoji.

It’s an exciting time for the star – who also appeared as Delilah Dingle in Emmerdale – as she announced her pregnancy just a few weeks ago.

‘EXCITING NEWS TWEET!! … I’m so pleased to tell you all … I’m expecting my first child with my wonderful boyfriend Adrian,’ she wrote beside a picture as she cradled her baby bump.

‘I’ve always wanted to be a mum and didn’t think I could have children. And now, at the ripe old age of 42 – I’M PREGNANT! …

‘We couldn’t be happier. (sic).’

Hayley and Adrian have been dating for the last two years, after she split from previous boyfriend Joe Tracini.

The Dancing On Ice winner also dated Marcus Brigstock for four years, before they called time on things in 2014.

In a candid chat at the time, she said she just wanted to focus on work, as she spoke about starting a family in the future.

‘My body feels 37 but I still feel 21. I sometimes forget that I’m going to be 40,’ she said. ‘It would be lovely to have kids in the future but for now my main ¬concentration is my work.

‘I’m not scared of nappies or screaming babies but I’m just not at that point. Not many of my friends have settled down either.

‘I’m a workaholic. It’s always work, work, work, I can’t switch it off.’

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Lisa Dingle (Jane Cox) is left fearing the worst when her struggling husband Zak (Steve Halliwell) goes missing in the amid the tragic news that she will die following a terminal illness which has given her months to live.

The Dingle family are still reeling from Lisa’s announcement, with Belle (Eden Taylor-Draper) taking the news particularly hard. As members of the clan are unsure over how best to deal with the situation, Moira (Natalie J Robb) heads over to chat with Lisa and helps to lift her spirits.

At the same time, Moira insists to Lisa that she herself is allowed to show moments of sadness and emotion – she doesn’t have to continually maintain a strong facade for everyone else. With that in mind, the floodgates open and she admits to Zak how scared she is of dying.

Zak is heartbroken to see his wife in this state and holds her close but later, the family are concerned when he disappears without a trace.

With Lisa left concerned that her illness is impacting Zak’s mental health and that he is unable to cope with a future without her, the family try to track him down. But will he turn up – and where has he been? There could be a surprise in store!

This morning, pictures were released which show that Lisa and Zak will re-marry in a touching ceremony as they vow to make the most of their time left together.

As the inevitability of Lisa’s fate hangs heavily over the Dingle household, can their love for one another and their strength carry them through their most challenging time?

Channel 4 has released a brand new on-air trailer for Hollyoaks celebrating the village in all its glory – but it also highlights some worrying developments.

An unlucky resident is taken out on a stretcher, and Goldie tries to put out a fire.

It’s not clear who the injured individual is but it looks very dramatic.

A few other storylines highlighted in the trailer are Sienna and Brody’s romance, James and Marnie’s scheming antics, and Grace and Mercedes’ forever fighting ways.

Landlord Mercedes McQueen opens The Dog in the Pond up for residents of Hollyoaks village, as friends, family and loved ones meet up for a drink, a date and a dance.

Tony has a birthday party and Brooke and Ollie go for an awkward date.

Priest Joel is busy ordaining a marriage and christening a baby, whilst the lads gather round to watch sports.

Grace and Mercedes are fighting, and there is a poker tournament, which Liam wins.

The day ends in a McQueen style after hour’s party, and Nana gets her twerk on…

Hollyoaks airs Monday to Thursday on Channel 4 at 6.30pm.

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EastEnders star June Brown had to turn down a party invite from Lady Gaga because she was too busy.

June, who plays Dot Cotton on the soap, made friends with Gaga when they met on The Graham Norton Show in 2013.

Their new found friendship lasted after the show ended with the Bad Romance singer inviting June, 92, to a party she was having in London.

But the actress had to say no because she needed to be up early the next day.

‘[Lady Gaga] is lovely. She’s a very intelligent girl. She was very respectful it was like she knew me.

‘We sort of took over. I did ask Graham Norton if I should go and sit on his lap. I don’t know if he was very happy about that.

‘She invited me to a private thing, unfortunately I was doing Piers Morgan the next day.

‘I’m not showing off, I’m telling the truth and I had to be in early and you’re in all day long. I can’t go clubbing if I’ve got to be alert the next day.’

Maybe the pair could get together the next time Gaga’s in London.

Revealing that her eyesight is failing, June spoke about how she managed to learn her lines for EastEnders.

Speaking on Tuesday’s Loose Women, she said: ‘I’m usually given my own part.

‘I used to have a visual memory. I only had to read it once and I knew it. But I have to learn everything with my eyes and it’s not so easy.’

Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV.

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Not only has manipulative sex abuser Maya Stepney (Louisa Clein) tormented Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant) and turned his life upside down, she now has her sights on destroying his future in Emmerdale as the pair hide out in a hotel room while he is meant to be sitting his GCSE exams.

David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden) is concerned when he finds out that his son hasn’t turned up to sit the test and he immediately tries to get into contact. Elsewhere, at the hotel, Maya reminds Jacob how much she has given up for him – and is coaching him in how they both need to respond if they are caught by the police.

As her mind games continue, Jacob is left questioning whether running away with Maya is the right thing to do as it would mean never seeing his family, friends or the village again. But when Maya discovers that he is has secretly arranged to meet up with David by text, she is seething.

She confronts Jacob and puts him on the spot, using her vicious techniques to feel like he has done something terrible. As she insists that she has to be his future now but she has to trust him, Jacob is determined to prove that his heart is in it.

Still besotted with Maya and caught in her trap, he smashes up his phone as a symbol that he is putting their relationship first.

But as Maya makes plans for their next step, will Jacob have a change of heart? And can David track them down before it’s too late?

Emmerdale airs a double episode on Tuesday 14th May at 7pm and 8pm on ITV.

There’s a major bombshell in store for Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) tonight as he discovers that Louise Mitchell (Tilly Keeper) has terminated their baby. But little does he know that she is actually lying and is still pregnant.

Louise dumped Keanu when she learned that Phil (Steve McFadden) had been paying the mechanic to date her but since then, Keanu has genuinely fallen for Louise and he was overwhelmed to learn that she is expecting his baby.

However, after pressure from Sharon (Letitia Dean), Louise went for a termination and confided in her friend Bex Fowler (Jasmine Armfield) about her conflict, asking her to attend the appointment with her. Due to her exam stress, Bex didn’t go but the nurse at the clinic could tell Louise was having doubts and urged her to make sure she knows she is fdoing the right thing.

Louise emerged into the arms of a comforting Sharon, who is under the belief that the abortion went ahead and they arrived home to come face to face with Keanu who begged Louise to take him back. Louise fled and admitted to Lola Pearce (Danielle Harold) that she was still pregnant.

Tonight though, while looking for Louise, Keanu calls round to see Bex and she lets slip that her friend went to terminate the pregnancy. Keanu is horrified and Bex does her best to try and warn Louise but Keanu races to confront her and is horrified by what he hears.

But how long will Louise keep up the pretence that she is no longer pregnant? And will thinking that the pregnancy has been terminated push Keanu over the edge?

EastEnders continues on Tuesday 14th May at 7:30pm on BBC One.

In the last episode of Hollyoaks, we saw Grace Black fall victim to a terrible car accident, and it’s safe to say that it doesn’t look good.

A staple on the soap, Tamara Wall made her first appearance as Grace Black back in 2013.

Now however, Grace’s future is uncertain, as last night, we saw her horrifically mowed down by Mercedes (Jennifer Metcalfe) in an accident that could have cost Grace her life.

Is it possible that that was the last time any of us will see Grace alive?

Is Grace Black dead on Hollyoaks?

On the last episode of Hollyoaks, Grace ended up walking home alone after a fight with her girlfriend Farrah (Krupa Pattani) about whether or not Grace wanted to go with her to Canada.

With her head apparently cooled, Grace called Farrah and left a voicemail apologising about what she’d said, and agreeing to make the move.

Meanwhile, Mercedes and thoroughly bad-influence Liam were driving in Harry’s (Parry Glasspool) stolen car, having planned on painting the town red as it were.

But a text from Breda (Moya Brody) to Mercedes snapped her out of it – reminding her that she loves her family and that Liam isn’t the bad egg for her.

A freshly-heartbroken Liam reached around for Prince’s (Malique Thompson-Dwyer) drugs, and even though she was driving Mercedes tried her best to stop him from taking them.

During the scuffle, Mercedes crashed the car through the roadworks that Grace was walking next to, leaving her unconscious by the side of the road.

As to whether or not Grace has survived this awful ordeal, you’ll have to tune in to find out…

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After 23 years on Emmerdale, it seems we’ll need to prepare ourselves to say goodbye to Lisa Dingle.

On last night’s episode, Lisa Dingle (Jane Cox) revealed to the rest of the Dingle clan that she’s been diagnosed with a terminal condition, and only has months to live.

Jane has been appearing on Emmerdale as Lisa since 1996, but Lisa’s diagnosis spells a definitive end of her time on the soap.

Here’s everything you need to know about the illness that’s due to take Lisa Dingle from her family…

What’s wrong with Emmerdale’s Lisa Dingle?

In tear-jerking scenes last night, Lisa Dingle came clean to her family that she is terminally sick with a condition called Amyloidosis.

As she held Belle’s (Eden Taylor-Draper) hands, she said that, despite seeking treatment in Scotland, she only has months left to live.

Jane told Metro.co.uk that the decision to write this storyline came about because it was the most suitable ending for the character, saying: ‘I think it’s better really, I think it tells a complete story, and there’s a lot of people out there who are dealing with terminal illnesses.

‘So it tells the story properly I think, I could go to Spain for years or whatever, but I think it gives a truthful hopefully end to Lisa’s story.’

As to why Jane decided to leave Emmerdale, she’s said: ‘I’ve been part of her for 23 years, so it’s a long time.’

‘But I’m 66 now, and I felt – I’m very young – but I wanted to not be working at this pace so much in the future, and I’ve got lots of other things that I want to do, not necessarily acting but there’s lots of things that I’m interested in, and if I didn’t do it now, I probably wouldn’t.’

Meanwhile there’s no word yet as to when Lisa’s final episode will be, however we do know that before she passes, she’ll be making more happy memories as she remarries Zak.

Steve Halliwell, who plays Zak Dingle, told us: ‘There’s fun times together before the tragedy might happen, it’s not all doom and gloom from day one. We’ve found out she’s ill and she’s going to die.

‘As we all know in our own lives, we all die some time. You can’t stop living because you die, can you, because you’re going to die? It’s imminent but we don’t know when.’

What is Amyloidosis?

Amyloidosis is the name for a number of conditions which result in the build up of a protein called amyloid in your tissue and/or organs.

This protein build-up can cause organ failure, and therefore be deadly.

For Lisa, the amyloid protein is building up in her heart, and as a result, the doctors have given her mere months to live.

If you want to know any more information about how this illness is going to impact Lisa and her poor family, then you’ll just have to tune in and see…

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In almost 14 years at Holby City hospital, leading surgeon Jac Naylor has cemented her reputation as an ‘ice queen’. She is well known among her colleagues for her frosty manner and fierce put-downs, and rarely regrets her harsh words even to senior staff or patients. And yet Jac is a hugely popular character whose near death experiences over the past year have had viewers on the edge of their seats.

The actress who plays her, Rosie Marcel, is often noted for her powerful performances when an emotional storyline comes her way. But it is her brilliant delivery of Ms Naylor’s epic one liners that steal scenes week after week.

Whether she’s giving someone a dressing down, being a bit too direct with a patient or offering up her unwanted opinion, Jac’s way with words knows no limits. In a countdown, here are her most memorable quotes in ranking order.

16) ‘Which incompetent is responsible for the signposting around here? I’ve ended up in the canteen twice.’

On her first day, Jac clearly wasn’t worried about first impressions as she complained about getting lost!

15) ‘Don’t be you.’

Simple instructions to Fletch when he asked for advice.

14) ‘Why don’t we all hold hands and sing ‘Kumbaya'(!)’

During a rivalry over plastic surgery being prioritised, she scoffed at the suggestion of peace talks.

13)  ‘How long is Doctor Doughnut going to be with us?’

Back in his early days, the lovable Sacha Levy got right on her nerves. Today he’s one of her closest friends, and a scene between these two always humanises Jac in between a day of ruthless behaviour on the ward.

12) ‘I usually spend my lunch break avoiding all human contact, so this had better be good.’

Most of the time, it seems she would rather not be around people at all. So interrupting this woman in her own time probably isn’t advisable.

11) ‘The lights are dim and there’s quite clearly no one at home.’

A blunt analysis of Faye, who was dating Jac’s ex Joseph.

10) ‘You are a stately home in the country, and she is a motel off the M4.’

I’m sure her continual cutting comments about Sister Morton had nothing to do with her lingering feelings for Joseph at the time!

9) ‘Did you pick those out of a tin of alphabet soup?’

When a patient showed her a homeopathic alternative for morphine, Jac mocked him. This quick comeback came as he tried to justify his knowledge by listing all the letters after his name.

8) ‘I’ll do some extra sinning to cancel it out.’

While Reverend Kevin was supporting a patient, he offered to pray for her too – which didn’t move the self-confessed atheist at all.

7) ‘You need to get better, and fast.’

If only things were as easy as Ms Naylor demanded them to be! During the cyber emergency, poor Xavier was quick to point out that the surgery he was assisting in was beyond his medical field.

6) ‘You know what they say about nurses being patronising bores.’

Of course she couldn’t just let Fletch’s comment about doctors making the worst patients pass her by.

5) ‘If you break his heart, I’ll rip yours out.’

But despite their banter, these two have a touching friendship and she won’t hesitate to use her menacing side to protect him. A romantic relationship had been teased for a while, but Jac refused to risk losing what they already had.

4) ‘Everything is about surgery! If I don’t have surgery, I don’t have anything.’

A very telling piece of dialogue that sums up the way Jac controls her life. In a heartbreaking scene that was widely praised, her mental health struggles came to the fore.

3) ‘No! Take the stairs.’

It was impossible not to laugh at this moment, despite how outrageous it was. As her character snapped at a patient with an IV pole who was aiming for the lift, Rosie’s brisk delivery of this line was brilliant.

2) ‘Only losers talk about doing their best.’

As head of Emergency’s Ethan insisted he was trying to put a stop to the mystery staff blogger, he was subtly reminded that failure was not an option.

1) ‘I went back to work after being shot in half. The least they could do is put my name on a paperweight.’

Just slight disappointment there over not winning a prestigious award! To be fair to Jac, she was only exaggerating a little. As the first casualty in a shooting carried out by Hanssen’s son Fredrick, her colleagues saved her life by literally holding her together. She later survived experimental procedures by dodgy Professor Gaskell; and order was once again restored at Holby as she returned to work with her trademark quips.

There were some smouldering scenes in EastEnders tonight as Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) and Sharon Mitchell (Letitia Dean) were pulled back into one another’s world – and pants. With Keanu devastated that Louise Mitchell (Tilly Keeper) had terminated her pregnancy – something he is unaware she has lied about – he hit the bottle hard in the Vic.

When Sharon heard from Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) that Keanu was in a state, she helped him out and followed him to the Arches where he bitterly blamed her for everything including Louise’s decision to have a termination.

Sharon also doesn’t know that Louise has had a change of heart and as she and Keanu had a heated discussion, they got to the root of their own unresolved feelings for each other. And as they both admitted they had kept their distance because they still loved each other, Sharon tried to leave but Keanu grabbed her arm and pulled her into a passionate kiss.

With Louise reconsidering her position on her relationship with Keanu, and Phil (Steve McFadden) looking for his wife, both were unaware that they were undressing one another in the Arches.

But will they regret it once the deed is done or will they resume their secret affair and add another complexity to the ongoing drama in the Mitchell household?

Victoria Barton (Isabel Hodgins) has been through a terrible ordeal of late after being raped in her own home by Lee, a man who came home with her from the club during a night out and violently attacked her in Emmerdale.

Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) has been doing his best to support Victoria, along with Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) and Diane (Elizabeth Estensen) and tonight, he ached over how best to be there for her. At one point, he put his foot in it by suggesting that she shouldn’t have allowed the man into her home.

As Victoria felt blamed, Robert was gutted to have made such a mess of things and confided in Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller). The pair agreed that Victoria has to be Robert’s focus for now and they have put the surrogacy plans on hold.

Robert suggested to Victoria that as the house reminds her of what happened to her, they should go away for a while, just the two of them and she gratefully accepted the offer. As they left the village together, Robert hopes that the time away will help Victoria to get some space and recover.

However, with the daunting prospect of the fact Lee is lying about what happened and no-one else knows about her ordeal, Victoria still has some hurdles to overcome.

But Robert will be by her side every step of the way.

Holby City’s getting dark again. In this episode we saw the mental pain that Chloe (Amy Lennox) is in and how fragile she is – and how that fragility can be easily exploited by boyfriend Evan Crowhurst (Jack Ryder). It was a scary echo of the kind of behaviour that Dominic (David Ames) suffered at the hands of the evil Isaac Mayfield (Marc Elliott) – and right at the end of the episode Isaac himself made his shock Holby return.

Lofty (Lee Mead) was back from his travels with his gran. This came as a huge relief to Dominic, who’d missed him and was thrilled to have him back. Unfortunately, with all the drama about finding out he’s adopted and Ange (Dawn Steele) is his biological mother, Dominic had been completely wrapped up in his own life and had hardly communicated with Lofty. Even more unfortunately, this had led to Lofty feeling lonely and unloved, and he’d been unfaithful with another man.

Setting aside the fact that this seems very out of character for Lofty and he wasn’t even gone that long, it was obviously devastating news to Dominic when he found out. His reaction was to try a bit of tit-for-tat revenge and he got straight on to a dating app. And the first man who contacted him turned up on a misty walkway somewhere around the hospital building. If we hadn’t already seen him in the spring trailer it would have come as even more of a gut punch. It was Isaac. ‘Does your husband know you’re out hooking up with strange men?’ he said – which all strongly suggests that he’s been keeping an eye on what Dominic has been up to. This is very disturbing news indeed.

Chloe, meanwhile, was in torment following the revelation that Dom is her brother. As Ange predicted, this brought up terrible feelings for Chloe about her origins. She couldn’t help but think that Ange gave away Dominic, her child born out of love, and had felt obliged to keep her daughter born as a result of rape. Chloe feels tainted by the knowledge and it seems that she’s coped with the pain of it over the years by self harming, which she tried to do again. She was stopped by Evan, but he isn’t as kind as he’s making out. In trying to poison her against her mother and Dominic and making her reliant on him, his behaviour is controlling and horribly reminiscent of Isaac’s to Dominic. Maybe it’s this that’ll eventually bring brother and sister together.

Sacha (Bob Barrett) discovered his own house had become infested with mice and decided it was time he left Jac (Rosie Marcel)’s. She wasn’t keen on the idea at all – partly because she worries about his mental health, but also because she and Emma really love having him as part of their family. A patient, Buster (Brian Murphy), helped Sacha to realise there were positives in having your own space, and by giving him a gift of a huge bag of potatoes helped him come to a compromise with Jac. He’ll move out, but every Sunday he’ll go over to her house and cook them all a Sunday roast and they’ll all play Emma’s favourite unicorn-based game.

Talking of unicorns, there was a horse in the garden of the hospital. It belonged to a patient (Claire Cordier), who’d stolen it back from her ex husband. This was a sad story of someone who had a happier relationship with horses than she did with people, and was dealing with a lot of grief. The horse found another friend in poor Chloe, currently feeling completely let down by most of the humans in her life.

Sue Haasler is the author of the official Holby City book, which you can read about here. Her latest novel, Half A World Away, is out now.