Inside Soap UK 41 - 2021

“Inside Soap is lousy with scoundrels” When I read comics as a kid, one of my favourite stories was when all the villains would work together. Y’know, when Batman had to fight the Riddler, the Joker, the Penguin, the KitKat and the Head of HR all at the same time (I might have made some of those up). Sadly, the soaps don’t allow supervillain ‘team-ups’, but there’s some of that vibe in the pages of Inside Soap at the moment, which are lousy with scoundrels, sinners, scumbags and snakes. Super Soap Week tempts them from under their rocks, you see. We have Corrie’s Harvey lurking down the sewers – perhaps poised to paddle Leanne away like some Phantom of the Weatherfield Opera. Meanwhile, a new Emmerdale trailer shows a caped…

Imran risks losing everything this week, after he finally comes clean to Toyah – and admits that he slept with someone else on the night of Kelly’s trial verdict! With Sabeen in possession of the truth, Imran has been forced to bow to her demands and help her with her appeal to free drug dealer Harvey Gaskell. But as the pressure gets too much, Imran finally crumbles – and reveals to Toyah that he betrayed her in the worst possible way… “You can see from Toyah’s face that Imran’s words hit her like a punch in the gut,” points out our cobbles spy. “She already had her suspicions that he might have cheated on her with Sabeen, but Imran promised her that he didn’t. So to find out that he…

Hi, Charlie! How is Imran coping? Imran’s found himself between a rock and a hard place – but that’s of his own making! Now that he’s made his bed, though, he’s trying his absolute best not to lie in it. What was your reaction when you found out that Imran would go along with Sabeen’s blackmail? It’s a pretty damning indictment of him, if I’m honest. I’m sure he would say he’s doing his best to protect his loved ones, but the fact is that he is potentially putting a whole bunch of people in harm’s way, and being duplicitous. When it comes down to it, he’s just as self-serving and capable of lying as anyone else. Do you have any sympathy for Imran at all? No! My sympathy for…

Desperation drives Will to confess all to shocked Kim this week, as he finally reveals that he buried Malone on the Home Farm Estate. The crisis comes when Kim allows Priya and Ellis’ Survival Challenge base camp to be pitched on the spot of the murdered police officer’s shallow grave! We caught up with Emmerdale’s Dean Andrews to find out what happens next, as Kim and Will’s relationship moves to a twisted new level… Hi, Dean! Will must be mad to trust Kim with his secret. Whatever possessed him? Well, she’s overruled him with Priya and Ellis, so he’s been trying to come up with all sorts of excuses about why they need to move their camp. He’s going on about pheasants and disturbing the shoot, and Kim’s wondering why…

Will’s disappearing act leaves Kim with a bleak choice: report him to police or become an accessory to murder. “The big question is whether that bond between Kim and Will is strong enough,” muses our Emmerdale insider. “At any other time, she might have cut him loose immediately and got on with her life. After all, Kim’s not the sentimental type – in fact, she’s merciless! “However, right now she has nobody else, and Kim relies on Will for emotional support. To report him means losing that connection at a time when she’s desperately lonely. But if she doesn’t, it’ll be her neck on the line too.” Having this valuable piece of information certainly gives Kim some power over Will that she didn’t have before. So might she agree to…

Life is no teddy bears’ picnic for Kim this week, as she launches a desperate bid to track down her missing husband Vincent – but is she prepared for the grisly secret she may be about to uncover? It’s after Kim hears Mitch taking a cab booking for someone named ‘Vince Hubbard’ that she stops dead in her tracks, as though she’s seen a ghost. It’s a name she thought she’d never hear again, and in that moment, her world is turned upside down. Could it be that her husband is alive and kicking, and actually back in Walford? “It’s highly unlikely – after all, the last time viewers saw Vincent, he was being bundled into the back of a car by some thugs!” gasps our Walford sneak. “That was…