With Sean gone and a visit to the doctor yielding a shock, Stella finds herself without a man and a baby and is vulnerable enough to be tempted into reconciliation with Rob. Aunty Brenda decides her niece needs a change of direction and gets her a job at the local bap factory. Russell Grant arrives to open the tanning salon but not everybody is happy. Paula and Dai’s colourful sex life has hit a problem as Dai is unable to perform and succumbs to taking the strange blue pills Aunty Brenda has picked up in Spain. At Sunil’s student ball Emma realises that his vampish fellow student Leah is competition for her man whilst Alan is depressed that, now he is out of work, he cannot compete with his ex-wife at giving his son expensive presents.