HOLLYOAKS fans were left reeling in a night of shocks in the soap as as Jesse Donovan was pronounced dead in the street.
One viewer wailed: “You B******s!!! Jesse and Courtney finally get their happy ending and you do this! My poor heart. ”
A second tweeted: “Please tell me this is some sort of twisted here Jesse was one of the good guys the reasonable person and this is unacceptable he didn’t deserve this at all.”
Another gasped: “This was so unexpected .”
The hairdresser, who is played by actor Luke Jerdy, was determined to tell the police his sister Grace and James shot Mercedes McQueen – but keeled over before he could.
Grace delivered the bad news to Courtney saying simply: “He’s dead.
“They found him outside the loft. They think that he hit his dead or he got hypothermia or something. I’m so sorry.”
And the revelations kept coming as later in the episode, Mitchell Deveraux came out as gay.
He told his mum: “I didn’t want to start having feeling for Scott but I couldn’t stop. I didn’t want to bring shame on our family.”
But Martine replied: “I couldn’t be prouder.”
Fans were delighted, with one writing: “Mitchell mam accepts him for who he is not just sexuality ”
Another tweeted: “Martine: ‘Ive never been prouder’ My HEART.”
However, when she said she would be spreading the news, Mitchell snapped: “We’re not telling granddad. We’re not telling anyone.”
He then asked her to promise not to tell anyone his secret.