Hollyoaks. The lawyer had previously not told Sami (Rishi Nair) that she misled him about being pregnant to cover for Diane (Alex Fletcher), creating a mounting series of lies as Sami got excited about becoming a dad. Fresh off finding out that Verity (Eva O'Hara) had secretly received a job offer in New York, Sami spent much of Friday's (March 5) first-look episode conflicted over whether he could uproot himself from his family. Lime Pictures Everything was complicated further when his cousin Shaq (Omar Malik) arrived straight from ditching his bride at the altar at their wedding. Shaq quickly got in the mix when he overheard Verity talking to Diane about how she'd made up her pregnancy.