Storylines
Jacqui arrives home on a tag after spending time in prison. Jacqui hoards money for gangsta Davey. Carmel McQueen (Gemma Merna) steals the money to buy breast implants. Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe) manages to find the money in order to repay Davey. However, there is still not enough money. Davey leaves with satisfaction when Jacqui promises to do a favour for him someday. Jacqui meets divorcee Tony and an attraction igniting, they have sex. Tony journeys elsewhere on a holiday however he returns soon after and decides to start a relationship with Jacqui. Jacqui violates her prison tag after she remains at Tony's house overnight, resulting Jacqui residing in prison again. Sadly, Tony is forced to dump her because he cannot handle the pressure. Jacqui befriends Becca Dean (Ali Bastian) but Becca is killed by another prisoner and Jacqui is devastated. Jacqui decides to make something of herself, not wanting to waste her life. She experiences a cheerful reunion with Tony and Davey returns with the favour. He forces Jacqui to marry Aleksander Malota (Jon Lolis). Jacqui and Aleksander manage to convince an immigration officer that their romance is authentic, and they get married in a registrar ceremony. Despite this, Jacqui continues an affair with Tony secretly. The family uncover the truth about the marriage when Carmel and Alek's affair is revealed. Jacqui admits she married Alek to pay off her debt to Davey and is seeing Tony. Myra McQueen (Nicole Barber-Lane) is furious and orders Jacqui, Alek and Carmel to leave the house.
Jacqui announces her pregnancy; Tony initially doesn't want the child out of fear it may die like his previous child. Their dreams are shattered when Jacqui suffers a miscarriage and cannot have children of her own. Tony attacks Alek violently as he blames Alek as he cannot grieve for his baby publicly. Tony announces to the people in The Dog that the baby was not Alek's, but his own. Jacqui asks Alek to return to Albania so she can live her life as she wants it to be, he agrees. Carmel is shocked to discover Alek is leaving. Alek leaves, leaving Carmel devastated. Depressed Jacqui returns to her old habit of shop lifting, so Neville Ashworth (Jim Millea) gets her locked up for the night.
Jacqui accuses Myra of being a bad mother and suggests it would have been better if Myra had aborted her. Jacqui and Tony reconcile again. Jacqui plans to adopt because of her criminal record. Tony discovers he has a secret child called Harry. Jacqui forces Tony to make a choice between Harry or her. Tony chooses Harry and she ends their relationship and leaves. An intoxicated Tony and Mercedes betray Jacqui by sleeping together. Jacqui fails to resist Tony again and they restart their on-off relationship. She then changes her surname back to McQueen from Malota and Mercedes reveals Tony had impregnated her. Jacqui wants Mercedes to let her and Tony raise the baby, unaware it's Tony's baby. Mercedes has an abortion, leaving Jacqui infuriated. Myra offers to be a surrogate for Jacqui but she refuses. Tina sees how desperate her sister is for a child, and offers to be the surrogate, leaving Jacqui and Tony ecstatic about having a future child.
At Tina's scan, Tina's pregnancy paternity results uncover Russ Owen (Stuart Manning) is the biological father, not her boyfriend's. Jacqui convinces her to keep quiet. Niall Rafferty (Barry Sloane) attacks Tina upon discovering she is considering adoption. Tina ends up giving birth to a boy, Max McQueen (Brayden Haynes-Mawdsley) naming him after Max Cunningham (Matt Littler). Tina has to have an emergency hysterectomy. Tina then wants to keep him but Jacqui takes him for herself, by blackmailing Tina with her affair. Jacqui begins to struggle with Max, not being able to fulfil his needs. Jacqui notices Tina's bond with Max and returns him out of guilt. Niall kidnaps all of the McQueen's inside a church, Myra arrives and learns quickly Niall is her son. Niall says Myra has to choose two children to die and Jacqui tells Mercedes that she cannot watch her die Mercedes reveals her night of passion with Tony. Myra comes to a tough decision and chooses Jacqui and Carmel to die. Jacqui is devastated with her mother. Niall then detonates the explosives and blows up the whole church and Tina dies. Jacqui confronts Mercedes and Tony, only to learn that the baby Mercedes aborted, was in fact Tony's. This pushes her over the edge. She takes Max from Michaela and refuses to forgive Tony, Mercedes or Myra. Jacqui begins to spend Tony's money and does anything to hurt him, even by sleeping with Mark Gascoyne (Craig Russell). Jacqui and Tony separate and she realises she needs to forgive Myra. Jacqui's cousin Theresa McQueen (Jorgie Porter) arrives and has sex with Tony. Jacqui attacks Tony and reports him to the police, but Theresa later retracts her statement.
Russ becomes angry with Jacqui for not allowing him to see Max. Russ pushes for a DNA test but to no avail, Russ later runs off with Max abroad. Carmel confesses to Jacqui that she let Russ walk away with Max. Jacqui is angry and goes to see Tony, who agrees to pay for a private investigator to help find Max. Jacqui leaves for France in order to find Max, but is unsuccessful. She starts a relationship with Des Townsend (Kris Deedigan) but confesses her love to Tony days before his wedding, Tony rejects her. A photographer publishes naked pictures of her after a drunken photoshoot. Jacqui and Des' relationship is strained by Jacqui's naked pictures leaking, her lies and stealing from the school canteen.
Mercedes tells Jacqui she is having an affair with Calvin. Jacqui confronts him and steals a gun from Lauren Valentine (Dominique Jackson). Theresa finds the gun and shoots Calvin. Jacqui decides to cover for Theresa. Jacqui tries to frame Gaz Bennett (Joel Goonan), but Kyle Ryder (Neil Toon) is later charged with the murder. Shortly after Des proposes to her, Jacqui discovers that he was a racist from Michaela's boyfriend Zak Ramsey (Kent Riley). Consequently for Des, Jacqui declines his proposal and he leaves the village.
Jacqui, along with Rhys then gets a new job at Chez Chez, a new bar that is owned by Cheryl and her brother Brendan Brady (Emmett J Scanlan). Jacqui and Rhys unknowingly meet on an internet dating website and fall for each other. Horrified when they find out, they kiss. Jacqui's cousin Bart McQueen (Jonny Clarke) moves into the McQueen household and causes a rift when he steals money from her. This causes Jacqui to move in with Rhys. Jacqui meets gangster Danny and they begin dating despite her feelings for Rhys. She cheats on Danny with Rhys, leaving Danny furious. Jacqui tells Rhys they need to keep their affair secret. However she ends their relationship as Jacqui catches Cheryl Brady (Bronagh Waugh) and Rhys having sex. Revengefully, Jacqui gets intoxicated and beds Gilly. She later tells Rhys that Gilly has sexually assaulted her, reports him to the police and he is charged.
Jacqui's father William Alexander (Richard Graham) arrives in the village and asks for a kidney transplant. Jacqui refuses and before learning that Theresa is also her half sister. He leaves shamed when they discover the kidney is needed for his other daughter Emily Alexander (Elizabeth Henstridge). William returns for the trial and she opens up to him. At the trial, Gilly and Jacqui remember the same events very differently. The jury find Gilly not guilty. Rhys tells Jacqui that he believes her and they agree to get married. However realising she is not over her ordeal Jacqui goes to stay with her dad in Spain. Upon her return she agrees to donate a kidney to Emily. When they are not a correct match, Emily tells her they were only interested in her kidney. Jacqui and Rhys marry but their relationship is problematic because Jacqui does not want to be intimate. Jacqui cannot readjust to life in the village. She gets a job working in The Dog. After more arguments Rhys suggests they spend time apart. Jacqui then goes missing, but is later found safe. She goes to see a counsellour and she and Rhys begin to rebuild their relationship.
Rhys and Jacqui find a dog which they keep and call Terry to help Jacqui get over her ordeal. Jacqui and Rhys finally consummate their marriage. Jacqui appears to be getting on with her life when Gilly returns to the village. When Rhys is continually aggressive towards Gilly, Jacqui moves back in with the McQueen's. Jacqui moves back in with Rhys and they decide to move away from the village. Gilly admits that he raped Jacqui before he leaves the village. Jacqui and Rhys get a lodger Ally Grogan (Daniel O'Connor) to help with the bills and she later clashes with Mercedes after she kisses Rhys.
Jacqui meets homeless teenager Phoebe Jackson (Mandip Gill) and invites her to move in to her flat. At Tony and Cindy Cunningham (Stephanie Waring)'s wedding, a bus crashes in to the venue. Rhys becomes trapped under the debris and apologises to Jacqui as he dies in her arms. Jacqui returns home to discover Rhys had planned to leave her and had left a note, detailing his plans to leave her and his affair with a mystery woman. Jacqui becomes suspicious that Cindy was having an affair with Rhys. Jacqui confronts Cindy who is with Bart's pregnant girlfriend Sinead O'Connor. She accuses Cindy only for Sinead to confess to having sex with Rhys. Jacqui confronts Sinead and realises Rhys is the father of her baby. She allows Sinead to keep the baby's paternity a secret when Bart proposes to her. On Christmas Day at the McQueens, which Tony and Cindy have both been invited to, Jacqui discovers items belonging to Rhys in the closet, including his mobile phone, which her family had been hiding from her. She recharges Rhys' phone and discovers that it was Cindy he was having an affair with.
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