Soap World #283

Looks like trouble in paradise for newlyweds Wyatt and Steffy with Liam ready to pick up the pieces on The Bold and the Beautiful . Read our cover story to find out just what honeymoon heartbreak lies in store for our tortured threesome. Off-screen, Darin Brooks shares his happy snaps from his real-life wedding. Check out the hottest new faces gracing our local and daytime soaps this year. We have the scoop on all the latest storylines from the US and Aussie soaps plus our UK favourites. You won’t want to miss our Daytime Emmys red carpet special with so many beautiful gowns worn by daytime TV’s most gorgeous women. Read all the behind-the-scenes goss from Hollywood plus the local soap scene. Enjoy the issue!…

Dr Blake renewed Doctor Lucien Blake (CRAIG MCLACHLAN) will be able to have another attempt at popping the question to Jean (NADINE GARNER) after the ABC announced series 5 of The Doctor Blake Mysteries will go ahead. The show is the ABC’s highest rating local drama with series 4 the most successful so far. It averaged more than 1.67 million viewers across TV and iView. Series 5 will again be set in early 1960s Ballarat with Blake investigating mysteries involving boxing, vineyards, gypsy camps, debutante balls and more. But will Blake and Jean finally be able to pursue their relationship or will a recent enemy’s quest for revenge destroy their happiness? 43 RD  ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS WINNERS Outstanding Drama Series: General Hospital. Outstanding…

Liam’s DREAM OF REUNITING WITH Steffy IS LEFT IN TATTERS WHEN HE DISCOVERS SHE’S MARRIED TO Wyatt. CAN LIAM MUSTER ENOUGH FIGHTING SPIRIT TO WIN HER BACK? One woman’s face continues to haunt the dreams and every waking moment of an amnesiac Liam’s life and it isn’t the face of Quinn, the woman he believes is his wife. Instead, the unidentifiable brunette in his mind has propelled Liam to begin sketching the facial features he’s imagining and soon Steffy’s face is staring back at him. Aided by sporadic memory flashes, Liam finally fights against Quinn’s efforts to keep the truth from him and regains his memory in a flood of flashbacks. Now, his only thought is of returning to Steffy’s side. Once free of Quinn’s (Rena Sofer) clutches, Liam (Scott…

A witness testifies to delivering Cleaver a vase with 10 grams of cocaine RAKE THURSDAYS AT 8.30PM ON ABC For four months, Cleaver Greene has been hiding out from enemy Edgar Thompson in the country as Murray, a writer recovering from cancer. Despite how irritating he finds small-town life, Cleaver has fought every impulse in his body to act like the complete opposite of himself in case it raises suspicion. But the ruse falls apart when TV program Australian Story covers Barney’s (Russell Dykstra) hot-air balloon rescue and photos of Cleaver (Richard Roxburgh) are aired. Now Cleaver’s girlfriend Alli (Justine Clarke) knows who he really is but it’s not until a violent altercation with Alli’s ex that Cleaver realises it’s time to go back to reality. Just as he puts…

NEIGHBOURS WEEKNIGHTS AT 6.30PM ON ELEVEN Ned Willis’s arrival in Erinsborough has been anything but easy. Brad’s long-lost son came to town at the request of his grandfather Doug, only for their reunion to be rocked by the Lassiters explosion. When the blast took the lives of Doug and Ned’s half-brother Josh, Brad was desperate for Ned to stay. But Ned’s (Ben Hall) emotional scars inflicted by Brad’s (Kip Gamblin) abandonment of him as a child ran deep and their journey to rebuild their relationship hasn’t been smooth. So it was some comfort to Ned to find support in Lauren (Kate Kendall) who encouraged Ned to remain in Erinsborough despite his troubles with Brad. The bond Ned shares with Lauren, however, is becoming murky as Ned has started to see…

NEIGHBOURS WEEKNIGHTS AT 6.30PM ON ELEVEN * Time is up for Paul Robinson, the embattled ex-mayor turned motel owner who has been accused of causing the deadly Lassiters explosion. The once proud and ruthless businessman has been brought to his knees. Shattered by his family and friends’ lack of faith in him, he has lost all hope not only of being found innocent but with life in Erinsborough. His downward spiral was fast-tracked by grief-fuelled vengeance from Terese, the woman Paul (Stefan Dennis) has been pining for, for years. Her son Josh (Harley Bonner) was killed in the blast and she has vowed to stop at nothing to see the person responsible pay — and in her eyes there is no doubt that man is Paul. She has even gone…