Material Girl

It's Ali's big day - the catwalk show - and tensions are running high at the studio.

It's Ali's big day - the catwalk show. However, Davina has engineered a show clash which could put pay to Ali's audience. Fighting for survival, Marco hatches a plan to "un-clash" the shows. Despite the stress, Ali is surprised to find that Marco is the one who makes her giggle - that is, until they arrive at the venue and Ali bumps into her estranged mum, Christine. Ali is utterly shell-shocked. It's been more than two years since she saw her mum following a disagreement over her new husband.

Ali wrongly assumes Christine has come to make the peace and an almighty row ensues when the truth comes out. Dejected, Ali asks her mum to leave and throws herself into her work, but her visit casts a shadow over Ali's mood - so much so that she buckles under the stress and runs out just before the show starts. Not about to give up, Marco races after Ali and tries to talk her round. Marco displays, for the first time, a sensitive and caring side and, at the 11th hour, he convinces Ali to return to the venue.

His plan to un-clash the show has also come to fruition and, as the show is about to begin, Christine walks through the door. Marco, realising that Ali needed her mum, talked Christine into staying for the show. Ali sees Marco in a new light and realises she wants him. For Mimi, it marks an abrupt end to her crush on Marco, as she cottons on to their chemistry.

Post-show and riding high on its glory, Christine and Ali make the first steps towards a new relationship. Life for Ali couldn't get much better... until she catches Marco, as she mistakenly sees it, in a clinch with a woman. However, when she then bumps into Chris, she is completely confused about the men in her life...