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Related: Hollyoaks star Nikki Sanderson announces heartwarming family news<\/a><\/p>\n In today’s episode, Ste woke up on the floor of Dee Valley Law with James beside him and a barrage of missed calls from Rex. <\/p>\n Leela was furious to find Ste and James getting close at her house, so she tried to talk some sense into Ste, kicking James out in the process.<\/p>\n When Rex turned up wanting to know why Ste had been ignoring him, Ste admitted that he didn\u2019t know if he could marry him anymore, saying: “You deserve to be with someone who can accept you 100% for exactly who you are.”<\/p>\n Not wanting any more secrets between them, Rex told Ste the truth about Grace being his mum, breaking down in Ste’s arms, saying: “I didn’t tell you because I felt disgusted. And I didn’t know if you would think I was disgusting too.”<\/p>\n After Ste made his decision, he met with James, telling him he was not willing to lose Rex over his cross-dressing and telling James to leave for good. <\/p>\n Lime Pictures<\/p>\n Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n “Things have changed. So it’s not going to work out. You need to leave,” Ste told James.<\/p>\n When James told Ste that their night together wasn’t just a fling and it “meant something”, Ste said: “I choose Rex. I love him. Just go, James. It was a mistake. I never want to see you again.”<\/p>\n It was then revealed that a heartbroken Rex had overheard the entire conversation between James and Ste, and now knows that they slept together. What will Rex do next?<\/p>\n Hollyoaks airs on Mondays-Wednesdays with its Channel 4 streaming<\/a> premiere at 7am, then an E4 broadcast the same night at 7pm. Full episodes are also released on YouTube a week after their Channel 4 release.<\/p>\n Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more Hollyoaks spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale – as Weatherfield\u2019s murder mystery unfolds, and Grant Mitchell returns to Walford!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ste Hay made a tough decision in tonight’s Hollyoaks after finally choosing between his fianc\u00e9 Rex Gallagher and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147950,379,190364,381,96,2788,1156,190363,148053,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-553915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-7b2b8dee-7ef1-4618-ab53-d7f96af14db3","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-hollyoaks-ste-makes-huge-love-decision-with-twist","tag-subsection-hollyoaks","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"hollyoaks](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7670e176-d49d-418d-a529-01b2a2f020f3.png\" "\\"Hollyoaks")
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