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" Hollyoaks producer Emma Smithwick recently caught up with Digital Spy for an exclusive chat about the soap&amp;#039;s future and upcoming storylines. If you haven&amp;#039;t yet read the first part of the interview, catch up here for the latest gossip on &amp;#039;Stendan&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Stug&amp;#039;, Hollyoaks Later and more. Here, though, Soap Scoop presents some extra character teasers and gossip from Emma. Will Mercedes get her comeuppance, and is there a danger of her become irredeemable after the stabbing? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s amazing - Mercedes gets away with blue murder (not literally!) all the time, and yet there&amp;#039;s so much love for that character. There most definitely will be a comeuppance. With the stabbing, she did it so coolly and lied about it so easily - that can&amp;#039;t last forever.  &amp;quot;Mercedes is a woman who is driven by her insecurities. She thinks she loves Riley and will do what it takes to win him. That&amp;#039;s what it&amp;#039;s about\u2026winning. Mitzeee crossed her - she is dispensable but Riley\u2026well, Riley is the prize. Mercedes Fisher usually gets what she wants and men usually fall in line with her. I want to see what happens when they don&amp;#039;t\u2026&amp;quot; Do you still have plans for Riley and Mitzeee? &amp;quot;Their love story began in Hollyoaks Later last year, and it was really exciting when we saw the chemistry between them. They do strike me as an ill-fated couple, though. Can they ever be happy?&amp;quot; Are you committed to sticking with Carmel&amp;#039;s injury storyline, without a soapland miracle cure? &amp;quot;I definitely have no interest in miracle cures. The story will continue to explore how she deals with the scarring and how she lives with it. It&amp;#039;s a really interesting storyline.&amp;quot; Martha recently accepted that she needed help with her drinking problem. Does that mean her alcohol story is coming to an end, or is there more to come? &amp;quot;Martha is a brilliantly manipulative character. She did accept that she needed help, but you&amp;#039;ll see that she doesn&amp;#039;t actually take it. She just can&amp;#039;t see that she really needs it, so that story will continue, and it certainly will bring out the strengths or failings of the three children. That&amp;#039;s where I think it&amp;#039;s the most interesting - to see how it affects them.  &amp;quot;Martha will be on a one woman mission to win back her family. She will take quite a dislike to Ally - she doesn&amp;#039;t trust him as far as she can throw him, and doesn&amp;#039;t like that he has so comfortably installed himself in her house with her family.&amp;quot;   Will we see more of the older characters in general? &amp;quot;Yes, definitely. Diane/Martha/Myra will cross, and I can&amp;#039;t wait to see those three, as I think it will be so much fun. I love the character of Myra too - she&amp;#039;s so funny and she packs a real punch when she&amp;#039;s in storylines. So they&amp;#039;re not going anywhere anytime soon.  &amp;quot;As for Rhys, Cindy, Tony and Jacqui - I am such a fan of this lot. It&amp;#039;s so easy to create drama when you put this combination together. There is some pretty juicy stuff coming up, with quite a few shocks along the way.&amp;quot; Can you tease Nancy and Darren&amp;#039;s future for us? &amp;quot;I absolutely love this couple. They shouldn&amp;#039;t work on paper, but somehow they do. With the baby, it&amp;#039;s second time lucky for them, but it&amp;#039;s never going to be smooth sailing with those two. As long as Darren&amp;#039;s in the picture, it&amp;#039;s never going to be easy!  &amp;quot;Having seen him interacting with the other male characters on the lads&amp;#039; night, I want to see more of the mischievous, naughty Darren. And I want to see more of neurotic Nancy. They&amp;#039;re going to have quite a rough ride in September\u2026&amp;quot; Will we see Ellis Hollins (Tom) and Connor Wilkinson (Finn) appear in the show again? &amp;quot;With Ellis, there were issues with his new school and scheduling, but hopefully we&amp;#039;re clear of that now and he&amp;#039;ll be back on the show. He&amp;#039;s terrific and I miss him on screen. As for Finn in terms of storylines, he&amp;#039;s with his dad and the stories haven&amp;#039;t really demanded that he should be there, so we won&amp;#039;t see him for the moment - but we&amp;#039;ll see.&amp;quot; Are there any plans to further explore Phoebe&amp;#039;s dark past and her terrible ordeal in Deena&amp;#039;s clutches? &amp;quot;I definitely wouldn&amp;#039;t have given Phoebe such a rich introduction and a rich backstory had we not planned on using it again. It informs who she is, and we&amp;#039;ll pick it up again.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve planned long-term for Phoebe. We knew she was a broken girl who had been through so much, yet had no self-pity. It&amp;#039;s going to be really interesting to watch her go through all of the normal things that teenagers have to go through, and there&amp;#039;s a long-term arc for her.&amp;quot;   Will we also see Esther come into her own a bit more? &amp;quot;Definitely - I love the character of Esther, and she&amp;#039;s got a very big storyline coming up. She is the voice of reason - she&amp;#039;s sensible but I want to see what happens when the popular kid at school, slowly but surely undermines Esther&amp;#039;s sense of self.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a long-running bullying story where social manipulation and psychological bullying get to the core of someone&amp;#039;s being and make them feel inadequate. It will be lonely being Esther Bloom - she&amp;#039;ll need all the friends she can get.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s ahead for the Savage family? &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve still got the &amp;#039;Who&amp;#039;s the daddy?&amp;#039; issue which we raised in the Savage Party week. We pulled the rug from under Dodger in terms of his identity, so that&amp;#039;s definitely something that is coming up. What happens to a young man who has no idea of who he is anymore\u2026 and then you give him an answer, a history. All to come!  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve also seen lots from Will on screen recently. Will is a weirdo with odd judgement and I want to see where that takes him! His sense of boundaries is slightly skew-whiff. Plus, he has always operated in the shadows of his brother so he has a misguided sense of entitlement - all of which should provide juicy drama.&amp;quot; After a quieter year for Theresa, does she have more material on the way? &amp;quot;Definitely. Theresa will be appearing in Hollyoaks Later this year, and we&amp;#039;ll see a new side to her relationship with Joel which is pretty hot!  &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a really interesting character in that she is so brilliant at compartmentalising her actions - she wanders around the village as if butter wouldn&amp;#039;t melt, yet she knows full well that she put a bullet through Calvin! We&amp;#039;ll start to see a little bit of this creep in with Joel - she&amp;#039;s more savvy than people would think!&amp;quot; Which characters are you most excited about as we head into the autumn? &amp;quot;Definitely Brendan - autumn into winter is going to see plenty of excitement for him. Jacqui and Cindy are two women that I am looking forward to seeing lots more stuff from. And the autumn will bring some high octane drama for Mercedes/Mitzeee and Riley. Esther is going to hit a pretty big low in October and November is going to be a whopper of a month - just you wait!&amp;quot; &amp;amp;gt; Read more &amp;#039;Hollyoaks&amp;#039; spoilers and news Hollyoaks airs weeknights at 6.30pm on Channel 4, with first look screenings at 7pm on E4. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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