While Rosie told unsuspecting boyfriend Jason she'd be away for 12 weeks in London for the show, the minx omitted to tell him it was a dating series with "12 girls competing to go out with a rich Lord" for which she had to be single. Sister Sophie was shocked when Rosie secretly told her that she planned to dump supportive Jason by letting the relationship "fizzle out".
Meanwhile Stella laid into Nick for going out with pneumatic daughter Eva (who appeared to be bizarrely dressed up as Carmen Miranda complete with flower in her hair) as she, Stella, didn't trust him and felt he was too old for Eva, But he managed to mollify her, promising: "I won't hurt her, I promise - give me a chance." Michelle Collins' "Northern" accent, which she seems to interpret as speaking very, very low-pitched and huskily, doesn't really improve.
Carla kept her upper lip stiff at the factory as she announced to the workforce that: "Frank and I have decided to bury our differences for the sake of the business," and he was unnervingly smiling and polite to her. "I'm so pleased we're friends - just like old times." he smarmed, even offering her a lift back home. But back home alone, the pressure caused Carla to collapse into frustrated tears, so she turned up in the rain at Peter's flat, only for his son Simon to read the riot act: "What she's doing here? You're the reason my mum's gone. You spoilt everything. I hate you." The boy has a point. The omens for Peter and Carla's future in Coronation Street don't look good.
Milton announced to Sylvia that he was going ahead with the Beef Encounter project elsewhere but she realised it would be in direct competition with Roy's cafe. Will Sylvia's so far not exactly strong loyalty to her son finally win out over her infatuation with Milton?
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