SHARON. Now there’s a name to strike terror into the hearts of residents of Soapland. Where there’s Sharon, there’s trouble.

And usually a man. Or men. Lots of men.

Every so often she does a runner, having exhausted literally and numerically all the men in Walford.

Brothers Grant and Phil, fireman Tom Banks (who died in a fire on the night of their engagement party), Dennis Rickman (stabbed to death)… the list, like Sharon’s sexual appetite, is endless.

This woman is trouble. But there’s fresh meat to be put on Sharon’s barbecue so she comes knocking at Fill the Fug’s door in EastEnders (BBC1). This is very inconvenient as it’s the day of his engagement party to Surely Shirley.

By the end of an action-packed week Sharon ends up between the sheets with I’m All Right Jack Branning, the first of many new notches on her bedpost.

But I get ahead of myself. Why has she turned up at Fill the Fugg’s place wearing a wedding dress. Did she think it was a fancy dress party?

Or does she always wear a bridal outfit just in case she bumps into a bloke at the bus stop willing to marry her?

She has, it transpires, fled her wedding to John. She’s abandoned him at the altar and, rather forgetfully, left her son, Dennis, behind too. Spotting an opportunity, John kidnaps the little chap. This, as I’m sure you don’t need telling, is no way to start a marriage.

One high-speed car chase later, Sharon is back in Albert Square looking for a bed. Nothing changes, does it? Surely Shirley, aware of Fill the Fugg’s history with Sharon, doesn’t welcome her with open arms. It’s more of a “sling your hook, you tart” sort of hello.

So Mad Max takes her in, suggests a wedding dress isn’t suitable daywear and dresses her up in his wife Tanya’s clothes. Whatever turns him on. Tanya is less pleased to come home and find a strange woman in her dress although finding Max in her dress would have been even more worrying.

Then Jack arrives, gets hold of the wrong end of the stick and his reward is a slap round the face from Sharon. Clearly, this is love at first sight. Before you can say ’ello, darlin’ the pair are snuggling beneath the duvet.

Life is no quieter in Weatherfield where the cobbles are running with blood again. Yes, it’s cat fight time in Coronation Street (ITV1) as Mauler Michelle and Terrible Tracy squabble over Steve McDonald.

What has he got that women find attractive, apart from dancing eyebrows. Merry widow Moira in Emmerdale (ITV1) is rediscovering the joy of Alex. It’s not two minutes since husband John died in a car crash, but here she is romping around the kitchen with hired help Alex. Or perhaps she’s consoling him for the fact that he can’t afford a shirt and has to walk around with his muscular torso exposed for all to see and for her to run her hands over seductively.

Son Adam returns unexpectedly from his holidays, but doesn’t notice anything. Alex is bare-chested and sweaty, Moira is red-faced and gasping for breath – Adam thinks they’re always like that when they’re making a cup of tea.