They'd been through hell and back together over the five series in the Brit drama, but just as everything seemed to be falling into place for Rachel and Adam, the writers decided to kill her off.

After luring viewers into a false sense of security after a series of events – they'd managed to conceive the baby they'd always wanted, and after losing his job and being evicted from their home, Adam had patched things up with his dad enabling them to buy their own house – disaster struck when Rachel was killed in a car crash on the way to the property auction, leaving Adam without a wife and mother for his child and viewers sobbing into their hankies.