“The soaps know how to surprise!” You have to give it to the soaps – they certainly know how to take you completely by surprise. No, I’m not talking about the shock of Corrie’s Phelan being alive and well (sorry for the spoiler if you’ve been watching on catch-up). We’ve all been enjoying soaps for a long time, so we knew there had to be another chapter in the twisted tale of Pat Phelan (see our news story on p12 for more on that!).
No, what I’m talking about are the genuine ‘What the blazes just happened?!’ kind of surprises, like the one on p17. Ladies and gents, Inside Soap proudly presents Roy Cropper wrestling Nigel Havers to the ground in a pavement brawl, while delighted Gail Rodwell quite literally…
