Hollyoaks spoilers: Harry Thompson breaks up with James Nightingale

James' paranoia grows unbearable

Author: Eden-Olivia LordPublished 3rd Jul 2019
Last updated 5th Jul 2019

Following last week's drama on Hollyoaks, Harry Thompson has had enough with his paranoid boyfriend and decides to dump James Nightingale this week.

It all begins when Sadie Cressington returns to the village after being told Harry is dying. However later on as James' suspicion surrounding his boyfriend grows, he begins to push Harry away and it's not long before their relationship ends.

Meanwhile Mercedes and Sylver McQueen continue to row which results in him asking Liam Donovan if she's back on drugs.

Before long she's hand enough with the lack of trust and packs her bags and leaves – is this the end of their marriage?

Jonny Baxter sets Ste Hay up with newbie Jed who shares the same ideology as the right wing group.

Tom Cunningham thinks of a new business venture and manages to get Prince McQueen and Romeo Quinn to help out.

Also Maxine Minniver continues to pretend she's ill while preparing for her wedding day and Goldie McQueen gives Joel Dexter a helping hand.

Hollyoaks spoilers: Monday 8th – Friday 12th July 2019

Ste goes to desperate measures to meet up with Sadie and decides to tell her that he's dying. She manages to sees through his lies when Harry arrives.

Despite the hiccup in his plan, Ste isn't backing down and urges Sadie to explain what really happened with Harry. Will she tell him the truth?

When Sadie is in the Tea House, Liam spots her and tells her to leave the village or she'll regret it. She then spills all to James and confesses she feels threatened and she was paid to keep quiet.

It's not long before James' suspicions go into overdrive and even he begins to doubt Harry. As the pair begin to argue, Harry is annoyed that everyone suspects he's guilty of the hit and run and decides to break up with James.

Later on after ringing Sadie several times she finally answers the phone and Harry begs her to go to the police station. He even promises that he'll meet her there – will she go through with it?

Marnie Nightingale is shocked by James' latest actions and urges him to stop being paranoid and suspicious of Harry. She even goes as far as telling him if he continues he'll turn out like his evil father Mac…

Meanwhile over to the McQueen family and the week actually gets off to a good start for Mercedes who is feeling very upbeat.

Her good mood doesn't last long though as Sylver jumps to the conclusion that because she's so happy she must be on drugs again. It's not long before the pair are at each other's throats...

Breda McQueen tries to reassure and advise Sylver to trust Mercy. However he needs to know for sure and asks Liam if he's been giving Mercedes drugs.

Later on, Sylver tells Mercedes that he believes her but when she finds out that he had to ask Liam, she packs her bags and leaves.

Breda – determined to make their family work – invites Mercedes on a family picnic. After calming down, Sylver apologises to Mercy and they kiss and make up.

Things take a turn for the worse for Mercedes when she's lying in bed with her husband and receives a text from an anonymous blackmailer, reading: 'I know what you've done'.

At the end of the week she receives ANOTHER message from the unknown number and they're now threatening to reveal her secrets.

She's suspicious of Breda – but is the serial killer the real culprit?

Meanwhile after revealing he wants to start dating again, Jonny sets Ste up with Jed. Unfortunately, there's no spark between Ste and Jed.

That doesn't stop Jonny and Stuart from trying to get the pair to make it work, they ask Ste to give Jed another chance because he shares the same ideology as them all.

When Jonny and Stuart arrive home – after spray painting racist messages – Ste doesn't hold back with tell them how different he and Jed are.

However things get awkward when Jed overhears their conversation…

Tom has a brilliant new business idea – a summer camp for children - and tells Prince, Peri Lomax and Yasmine Maalik all about it.

He even thinks of the name for his new idea – Tom's Turtles – but what will his friends say about it?

Prince and Romeo accidentally destroy the outside display at Price Slice and Walter Deveraux wants them to pay up.

Martine Deveraux suggest that the pair make up for the damages by working at the shop over summer.

However after working one shift at Price Slice, Romeo and Prince are quick to conclude that they'd rather work at Tom's Turtles.

Tom tells the pair that the only way they can work together is if they can actually get along. It seems the boys put their differences aside because they end up quitting their job at Price Slice.


During Tom's first training session, he struggles to show he's the boss. However he has a change of heart and tells his employees that if they don't follow his rules then they can pack up and leave.

Maxine Minniver continues to live a lie by pretending she's got a mysterious terminally illness and asks Sienna Blake to help organise her wedding.

Maxine even tells Sienna and Damon Kinsella that she's meeting a private doctor, they're unaware that she's actually looking at wedding dresses.

Meanwhile Damon and Brody Hudson book an expensive helicopter to fly to the wedding.

Maxine wants her fiancé to have his dream helicopter but that means she's going to have to make a huge cut in her wedding dress budget.

Despite the fact that she needs to save, Maxine continues to try on wedding dresses and before long she falls in love with an expensive one.

Joel is reluctant to let Goldie help plant flowers for Hollyoaks in Bloom, especially considering their past, but she's more help than Cleo McQueen and Mitchell Deveraux.

Before the drama above happens, here's everything that will happen in Hollyoaks this week...

Sylver McQueen FINALLY discovers that Mercedes has been taking drugs - it's took him long enough - and it's not long before the pair are rowing at Max Owen's birthday party.

When Breda spots the pair she had a word with Mercedes and manages to convince her to try and be a good wife and mum.

Meanwhile James struggles to trust Harry and it's not long before he's looking through his boyfriend's phone and listening in to his conversation with Ste HAy.

Also Nancy Osborne and Sinead Shelby try and put their past behind them and join a book club and Scott Drinkwell goes on a date with Levi Rochester - but will he tell him the truth?

Hollyoaks airs on Channel 4 every weeknight at 6.30pm, with First Look on E4 at 7pm.

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