Inside Soap UK 27 - 2019

“I’m as excited to see the results as you are!” Yes, it’s that time of year again, when we ask you to vote for your favourites in the Inside Soap Awards. There have been some amazing plots and performances over the past year, and as I look down the nominations list that you’ll find in the centre pages of this magazine, I geniunely have no idea who will be victorious this year, so I’m as excited to see the results as you are. Over the next few weeks, the soaps – as well as your favourite daytime shows and night-time dramas – will be telling Inside Soap why they deserve your vote, so look out for some fantastic features coming soon. Meanwhile, if you go online to vote, do take…

Judgement day arrives for Nick and David this week, as they stand trial for the theft of Audrey’s money. But just when it looks as if the brothers have called a truce, with Nick promising to take full responsibility for the fraud, he commits the most hideous betrayal – informing the court that his sibling masterminded the whole thing! “It’s a snap decision in the moment,” insists Ben Price, who plays devious Nick. “He is standing up there in court, and he feels this is all a bit more real now. He is scared it is going to backfire on him.” That’s not to say that David has behaved like an angel in the whole sorry saga, having blackmailed Nick into using Audrey’s stolen cash to bankroll their barber shop,…

While the brothers battle in court, the Platts are at their wits’ end when Gail fails to return home in time for the trial. What could be keeping her? Meanwhile, Sarah turns Nick’s own plan against him, and has Adam draw up a document removing Nick as boss of Underworld, on the grounds that his brain injury makes him unfit for duty. Has Nick’s entire family finally washed its hands of him? “Nick thinks that they’ll come round,” says Ben. “That is the essential part of the Platts – they always come good in the end. And there are a lot of mitigating circumstances as to why he took the money – although taking it off your grandma is not ideal! Nick may have been misguided and stupid, but he…

Victoria seems set to leave behind her friends and family this week, as she plans on moving out of the village – to get as far away as possible from her rapist Lee. Following Lee and his mother Wendy’s recent arrival on her doorstep, traumatised Victoria is painfully aware that the pair will likely never leave her alone – particularly now they know that she’s having his baby. So, with her own mental health and the well-being of her unborn child at the forefront of her mind, Victoria believes she has no choice but to start afresh somewhere new. Can anyone persuade her otherwise? “Coming face to face with Lee again has been horrific for Victoria,” sighs our Dales spy. “Yet it’s the fact that he knows she’s carrying his…

“It’s all very well when you play a story like this in the confines of a TV studio – but it’s reaching out to people, and people have reached out to me,” shares Isabel Hodgins, aka Victoria. “That’s a new experience for me. I’ve had survivors thanking me for telling the story so truthfully, and they’ve shared their stories – particularly since Victoria decided to keep her baby. “I’ve heard from people whose child was a product of rape, or sexual assault. One lady decided not to go ahead with the pregnancy, and told me it was the hardest thing she ever did. Another went ahead with hers, and said she now has an amazing 20-year-old daughter – and she wouldn’t change a thing for the world. This is people’s…

The feud between former best buddies Kush and Martin gets physical this week, as Shirley suggests that they settle their differences in a boxing match! But is punching each other’s lights out really the best way to get the pair back on to friendly terms? The atmosphere has been sour between the two men ever since Martin discovered that Kush had been keeping secrets about his daughter, Bex. And the delicate situation only worsened when Kush made it clear that he was intending to put in a legal challenge for his biological son, Arthur, whom Martin has adopted. With all previous attempts to compromise having been rebuffed, neither man seems willing to budge on their stubborn position. So that’s why Shirley makes her unusual proposal… “Shirley is just as sick…