Hollyoaks viewers were left gobsmacked during the latest visit to the village as Peri Lomax shared a passionate kiss with Shaq Qureshi (Omar Malik).
Peri turned to Shaq for some comfort following a blazing Christmas Day row with ex Juliet Nightingale (Niamh Blackshaw) during Monday’s first-look episode on E4.
She was left confused in recent scenes when it seemed that Juliet was lying to her.
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Peri, who has never stopped loving Juliet and recently rekindled her relationship with her, has no idea that Juliet has been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma.
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Juliet can’t bear to tell anyone what’s going on and instead has been behaving very erratically to cover up her devastating diagnosis.
Peri and Nadira Valli (Ashling O’Shea) made it their mission to find out what Juliet has been hiding from them but had no joy.
The pair told Juliet that she’d been spotted in hospital and demanded to know what is going on.
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However, a defensive Juliet decided to lie to her two exes and instead saying she had a one-night stand and went for to the sexual health clinic for an appointment.
Peri and Juliet ended up in a blazing row with Juliet telling Peri she “doesn’t love her” leaving her ex heartbroken.
A grieving Shaq, who is mourning the loss of his partner Verity Hutchinson, later bumped into a sad Peri in the park and she invited him to Christmas dinner.
As the heartbroken pair swapped sob stories, Shaq was on hand to comfort Peri and the friends later shared a kiss.
Viewers at home couldn’t believe their eyes as the unexpected duo locked lips and shared their opinion online.
Taking to Twitter, one fan penned: “Get #Jeri back together now #Hollyoaks it’s about Damm time it happened @Hollyoaks.”
Another added: “Don’t put Shaq and Peri together.”
A third person said: “Not happy about Shaq & Peri hooking up this fast.”
While a fourth social media user said:
Are they set to become a couple or will Peri return to Juliet?
Fans of the Channel 4 soap are aware that Juliet left Peri for Nadira, who was cheating on her husband-to-be Shaq with Juliet.
Nadira and Juliet’s affair came to light on her wedding day to Shaq and he later ended up rekindling his romance with Verity, who was brutally attacked by Bobby Costello and died earlier this month.
Elsewhere, Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pickard), who recently lost his sister, Verity, is doing his best to muster some Christmas cheer and hands out more of the gifts that his late sibling had bought to the villagers.
Hollyoaks airs weeknights on Channel 4 at 6.30pm followed by first-look episodes on E4 at 7pm
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