So what happens when Hollyoaks spins off for a week of (gulp!) post-watershed episodes on E4? How dark and lewd will things get? Hollyoaks has previous in this area and it first went spinning off into late nights in the late 90s, with ‘heavy underwear petting’, the random shout of ’shit!’ or ‘bollocks!’ and perhaps, most memorably, an in-shadow silhouette of an erection (Ben the fireman’s, fact fans) to justify the later slot. There was even a whole series, Hollyoaks in the City, which plumbed new depths of pointless titillation as telegenic (in a Next catalogue kind of way) on-screen couple Lisa and Ben played by busty Gemma Atkinson and blandsome Marcus Patric moved to Liverpool and became embroiled with plastic gangsters, strip clubs, prostitution and more.

London – These scenes actually work quite well, with jail-bait tart-with-a-heart Theresa and her mad cousin Michaela off to that London to see if Theresa can make it as a model. London looks grey, grimy and cold …

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