Spoilers on soaps that never happened

[grampsashworth]

By soaps I mean Hollyoaks and Eastenders in my case because they're the only ones I watch:

Hollyoaks-
Max was to die in the lake.
Katy was to get shot during a siege, after which Clare would pop up, smirk and say something like "Now you know how it feels to have a loved one taken from you"
Justin was to hang himself next to his father's grave.

Eastenders-
Spencer was to bed both Sam and Kat in the space of a week.
Stacey and Lucy were going to frame Minty for being a Paedo
Bradley, with assistance from Rainie, was to become a destitute drug addict.

[booers]

I remember reading on Teletext in about 1992 that in Home and Away Marilyn and Fisher were to get it on and she'd got preggers by him.

At the time I LOLed it off as it just seemed so preposterous. This then did happen but about 8 years later, so you never know - all those you've listed for BellEnders and Jollyfolks might still happen!

[Bungle]

It was stated as 'fact' for a while that Bianca would give birth to Lenny's baby in EastEnders (giving Ricky a shock as he saw its colour), but she miscarried in the end I think. I don't know if Ricky ever found out about Lenny, actually.

[Rad]

One of the McQueens was meant to have died last Christmas in Hollyoaks.
Lou was meant to die in Neighbours several years ago.
Darren Osborne was supposed to have slept with Michaela in Holyoaks.

[timydamonkey]

There were loads of stuff like this on the old Hollyoaks forum - people used to invent spoilers (naturally the invented ones managed to look more legit than the others, with less spelling errors, and any plot in Hollyoaks seems fairly credible...). I can't remember a lot of them - but there was on about how Jake was going to kill Justin in some bizarre gardening related murder after he found out about Justin's affair with Becca, and Justin's body would be dumped in a compost pile or something.

I wish I'd saved that 'spoiler' now, it was hilarious.

In spoilers posted here - wasn't there one were Louise supposed to have a gay brother called 'Lucas' or something who would go out with JP?

[joshjones]

Louise was also supposed to have a sister who would be stuck with Josh Ashworth.

There was supposed to be some kind of explosion or hostage crisis at New Year's Eve 2007. That one went around for a while. Sometimes they involved Clare. I wondered if the show was making fun of the spoiler when they had everyone think there was a bomb outside the Dog, only for it to be Myra and Leo having a go in a van.

There were rumors posted off and on for months on Wikipedia (Louise's siblings were also on Wikipedia) Clare was coming back to ruin Warren's and Louise's wedding.

Nicole Owen was supposed to have been had a meeting with Kirkwood or been seen at the studio and was supposed to have returned this year.

There was one that got quite far about Max's sister Jude coming back in 2006.

Bradley, with assistance from Rainie, was to become a destitute drug addict.

I would have enjoyed that story. Followed by his having drug sex with Chelsea, and a baby on the way.

I almost forgot about Jack P Shepherd joking in an interview about what David would be up to with his cellmate once he went inside, including shower scenes. I think that one had to be denied by ITV.

[jetsetwilly]

I liked Popbitch's allegation that Pauline Fowler would die of The AIDS.

I also liked the one that Joy's Bar in Eldorado would be blown up in a terrorist atrocity, culling half the cast, instead of people just drifting off back to England and ending up floating under Brighton Pier. Apparently EastEnders also considered having the IRA blow up the community centre to kill Pete Beale, which is a bit excessive.

[Tracy-Ann Oberman]

One that springs to mind is that the lovely Violet in Corrie was supposed to be HIV positive which was meant to explain her reluctance to sleep with Jason...

[emma]

Hannah Ashworth on Hollyoaks was supposed to have been pregnant a few weeks ago, and her mum would find the test and think it was her brother's Incest!Baby. Though I would imagine her ovaries are still deep frozen from starvation.

My favourite was years ago when Martin Platt on Corrie was being stalked by that Irish nurse and she claimed to be pregnant with his child-she was supposed to have a scan that showed the baby was black. That is some fucking nifty ultrasound equipment, especially for the early nineties, and I want a go on it. But in the end she just fell-down-the-stairs-and-miscarried-OR-DID-SHE?.

Random fact: Only about 0.5% of non-soap miscarriages are caused by falling down stairs.

[grampsashworth]

I also seem to remember on Hollyoaks Fletch was going to be gay and have an affair with Gilly.

[joshjones]

I guess this is a relatively meaningless one, but I think Blanche was originally supposed to be the one who scratched Steve's car on Corrie; they had to substitute her with Norris when Maggie Jones got hurt.

[jetsetwilly]

Why would Blanche do a paper round?

[louises]

Karl Kennedy was supposed to die from his heart attack a couple of years ago.

[Ceeb]

Karl actually did have the heart attack - he just didn't die from it. He was never supposed to as it was just before him and Suze got back together. I'd put the death down to fan exaggeration.

[ToutDeMoi]

Way back in the 60's Emily Bishop (or Nugent as she was then) was going to have a child out of wedlock and then go off the rails. Instead, they just shot her husband about 15 years later.

[ToutDeMoi]

Jun 9, 2008 19:19:58 GMT jetsetwilly said:

I liked Popbitch's allegation that Pauline Fowler would die of The AIDS.

I also liked the one that Joy's Bar in Eldorado would be blown up in a terrorist atrocity, culling half the cast, instead of people just drifting off back to England and ending up floating under Brighton Pier. Apparently EastEnders also considered having the IRA blow up the community centre to kill Pete Beale, which is a bit excessive.

I know. I'd have just nail bombed the cafe

[dieamandaholdendie]

Wasn't there one that Max Farnham in Brookie was supposed to be revealed as one of the gays in spite of having been married a ridiculous number of times to the same / different women? I seem to recall Steven Pinder threw all his toys out of the pram and Max ended up just being secretly married again or something...

[Alderman Alfred Logan]

There was a wonderful spoiler posted on here quite a while back about Izzy's marriage to Ben.

I forget most of the very detailed elements of it, but the main thrust of it was that Izzy got killed on the way to the wedding. But there was an awful lot more to it.

I was convinced that this was going to happen.

As we all know now, it didn't.

[Mike]

Jun 30, 2008 12:55:00 GMT dieamandaholdendie said:

Wasn't there one that Max Farnham in Brookie was supposed to be revealed as one of the gays in spite of having been married a ridiculous number of times to the same / different women? I seem to recall Steven Pinder threw all his toys out of the pram and Max ended up just being secretly married again or something...

When Max joined the show, he was married to Patricia, having left his first wife Susannah for her after they had an affair. He later cheated on Patricia with Susannah. They divorced, then remarried, then divorced again and he remarried Susannah. The ridiculous twist being referred to is that throughout all of this (not to mention Patricia's cancer battle, their Down's syndrome baby and the deaths of his and Susannah's two children in a car accident) he had being conducting an affair with another woman for almost 20 years. I can't say I ever heard the gay rumour..

[Robbing the Dead]

Wasn't Louise in Hollyoaks supposed to have some gay brother who was going to gay some gay up?