Neighbours Spoilers – Wendy fears for her marriage as Andrew vanishes

Next week on Neighbours, Wendy fears that Andrew has left her when he doesn’t come home after learning the true extent of her lies. Is the Rodwell marriage really over?

Wendy (Candice Leask) recently began an education course at Eden Hills University, a way to get her out of a rut after she began to feel dissatisfied with her life.

When Sadie (Emerald Chan) decided to forgo university in favour of a career as a makeup artist, Wendy was upset, not wanting her daughter to miss out on the better life that she saw university as offering.

After a heart-to-heart with Andrew (Lloyd Will), she finally realised that she was the one who was dissatisfied with her life, and opted to head back to school.

However, as her course began, she found herself friendless, fearful of what her much younger peers would think of her, and not wanting to appear “too Wendy” by speaking up in class.

She eventually found a friend in Parker (Gaz Dutlow), who welcomed Wendy into their extended party-loving friendship group, and Wendy let her hair down on her first ever uni night out.

She made a good impression on another student, Quinn (Louis Lè), who was keen to invite ‘Wild Wendy’ out at every possible occasion, and it soon became clear to viewers that Quinn was developing a crush on Wendy.

The only problem was, Wendy was keeping secrets from her new friends – they had no idea she was in her 40s, married, and with a teenage daughter.

Last week, when Parker invited Wendy to a traffic light party, where the partygoers wear green, orange or red clothes to indicate their relationship status and availability, Cara (Sara West) overheard the interaction and realised that Parker believed Wendy was single.

After a problem with the original venue, Parker talks Wendy into hosting the party at No. 26.

This week, Wendy manages to get both Andrew and Sadie out of the house as her husband goes on a camping trip with JJ (Riley Bryant), and Sadie heads to a music festival with Holly (Lucinda Armstrong Hall).

Yet when both sets of plans got cancelled, Wendy’s secret house party is busted!

Thankfully, Andrew finds the whole thing amusing, and narrowly avoids spotting Quinn making a move on Wendy.

He encourages his very hungover wife to enjoy time at uni; if she wants to party, she should just go for it, without needing to hide it from him! Just maybe remember that the hangovers will be worse than in her 20s…

Yet next Monday (22nd July), the full truth of Wendy’s deception comes out after a slip-up from Cara.

Cara doesn’t realise that Andrew only knows half the story, and as they chat in the Waterhole, she comments that she thought he’d be more upset by Wendy pretending to be single at uni.

As Andrew realises just how much Wendy kept from her new friends, he’s left hurt and shaken. Wendy tries to downplay it, claiming it was just a silly game she played to fit in, but Andrew assumes that she would have kept up the ruse if she hadn’t been busted.

Wendy desperately wants Andrew to know that her lies had nothing to do with her feelings towards him or Sadie.

However, when Andrew challenges her, she admits that she did quite enjoy living in a different reality, causing Andrew to assume that in his wife’s dream life, neither he or Sadie exist!

That evening, when it gets to midnight and Andrew still hasn’t come home, Wendy starts to worry. When she can’t get hold of him on the phone, she fears that her actions have just ended her marriage.

In the following episode (Tuesday 23rd), Wendy heads to the police station, terrified that Andrew has left her. She makes a scene at the station, only to discover that Andrew has been kept working late.

Confronted by the depth of his wife’s fears over their marriage, Andrew agrees to hear Wendy out. He’s moved by her explanation, and while he makes it clear that he’s still hurt by her lies, he assures her that they’ll be okay in time.

Wendy isn’t the only one keeping secrets; Cara has been lying to her partner too.

She’s signed up to a short IT course at Eden Hills, but hasn’t told Remi (Naomi Rukavina) or the kids, as her lack of precious academic experience means she’s scared she’s destined to flunk the course.

When she overhears Wendy discussing her relationship mistakes with Aaron (Matt Wilson), she takes the conversation on board and realises that she can’t keep lying.

She reluctantly tells Remi the truth, but when Remi is unbothered by her big ‘secret’ and supports Cara’s move back into education, Cara pushes her away.