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Cutting It

20024 seasons7.0 / 10

Allie Henshall and Gavin Ferraday are partners in love and business. They own Henshall Ferraday hair salon, where Allie's sisters Darcey and Sydney work alongside them. As Allie and Gavin consider taking over a vacant property across the road, they are rocked by the news that a rival hairdresser has bought it. To make matters worse, Allie discovers that the new salon, Blade Runner, is run by her ex, Finn, and his wife, Mia Bevan. Finn fathered the child Allie claimed to have aborted. He left her when he found out she was pregnant, but he's back in town to try and woo Allie.

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Synopsis

Allie Henshall and Gavin Ferraday are partners in love and business. They own Henshall Ferraday hair salon, where Allie's sisters Darcey and Sydney work alongside them. As Allie and Gavin consider taking over a vacant property across the road, they are rocked by the news that a rival hairdresser has bought it. To make matters worse, Allie discovers that the new salon, Blade Runner, is run by her ex, Finn, and his wife, Mia Bevan. Finn fathered the child Allie claimed to have aborted. He left her when he found out she was pregnant, but he's back in town to try and woo Allie.

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Episode 1

Episode One

May 6, 20031h

It's one month after Allie chose Finn over Gavin, and she returns with Finn from their holiday in Naples. They pull up outside the Henshall-Ferraday salon, which is having its sign changed to ""Gavin Ferraday"". Allie obviously isn't welcome. Finn surprises Allie, taking her to a new state of the art health and beauty spa for her to run, Celestium. She's flattered and accepts Finn's offer to run it. Brawdie shows up for a cut and blow dry, to prepare herself for Tom's 60th birthday disco party, but Allie talks her into having the full Celestium treatment. Brawdie looks fantastic as a result of the pampering, and becomes the life of the party at the disco. Tom speaks to Allie, reminding her where her true talent lies, that she can make a difference to real people's lives, and that she doesn't really suit being a ""hands-off"" executive. A big argument kicks off at the party, with Ruby announcing the different partners Finn has had, information provided to her by the scheming Mia of course.

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Directed by Andy de EmmonyWritten by Debbie HorsfieldGuest stars Enid Dunn, Mathew Bose, Ronny Jhutti, Joe O'Byrne, Maria Shilliam

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Episode 2

Episode Two

May 13, 20031h

With Allie out of the picture, Darcey takes the opportunity of replacing her in Gavin's business and bed. Finn, Allie and Gavin are all nominated for ""Hey! Manchester"" awards. Mia has been working as an escort, so Gavin offers her a job.

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Directed by Andy de EmmonyWritten by Debbie HorsfieldGuest stars Cherie Lunghi, Mary Jo Randle, Ronny Jhutti, Terry Christian, Andrew Langtree, Dragan Mićanović

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Episode 3

Episode Three

May 20, 20031h

Allie and Finn take Ruby for a day out a Blackpool. Darcey continues to plot her and Gavin's future, and there's an incident involving the Manchester Ship Canal which gets Calypso a TV spot.

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Directed by Andy de EmmonyWritten by Debbie HorsfieldGuest stars Cherie Lunghi, Ronny Jhutti, Terry Christian, Enid Dunn, Helen Latham, Damian Moore, Jemma Thompson

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Episode 4

Episode Four

May 27, 20031h

Remi and Calypso enter a Poptartz competition, which in turn reveals a dark part of Sydney's past. Mia and Sydney both ""spring clean"" their lives, and Zinnia issues a warning to Finn about his future with Allie.

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Directed by Roger GoldbyWritten by Debbie HorsfieldGuest stars Danny Webb, Ronny Jhutti, Hetty Baynes, Johnathan Brenner, Kate Holderness

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Episode 5

Episode Five

Jun 3, 20031h

Two of Finn's children, Layla and Jodie, turn up on his doorstep. Finn and Allie have trouble looking after them both, so Allie calls in the rest of her family to help her out. Meanwhile, Mia is creating a plan to find out Allie's priorities. Her plan is to pull out of the seminar where she's meant to assist Boo Wibberly, the Progressive Hairdresser of the Year, and suggests Allie to replace her. Allie grasps the opportunity immediately and leaves Finn and her family with the children. Finn takes them all back to Byzantium, his bar, and they all have fun making cocktails and other drinks. Unknown to anyone, the two children put alcohol in their drinks. Mia shows up just as this is happening, and sees it happen, but keeps it to herself. The two children become sick, and Finn is worried that their mother won't let him see them again because of his bad fathering. Mia tells him that she'll take the blame for the problem, to save Finn from getting in trouble. At the seminar, Allie carries o

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Directed by Roger GoldbyGuest stars Cherie Lunghi, Sharon Small, Marilyn Bar-Ilan, Vincent Maguire, Hannah Bridges, Patsy Ghadie, Rudi Dharmalingam, Dennis Blanch

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Episode 6

Episode Six

Jun 10, 20031h

Najat and Zaki Amjad close their shop and relocate to Eccles, everyone believing that they are moving for a change of scene. However, when the rent on Gavin's salon is increased to a ludicrous price, Finn becomes suspicious of the local property sharks. Gavin is reluctant to take Finn's advice and decides to make an appeal to the government. The staff of Gavin's salon hold a demonstration outside, wreaking havoc, which involves Zinna in a black PVC cat suit tied to a lamp post! Gavin stops the demonstration though, not wanting to lower the chances of winning North West salon of the year. Finn decides that it's now time that he and Allie sort out their divorces, and Allie and Gavin arrange to meet to talk things through. Finn's decision backfires, because when Allie and Gavin look through old photogrpags of their wedding, they remember how good they were together. While this is happening, Mia goes to see Finn, and lies that Gavin told her that he and Allie have been sleeping together, w

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Directed by Julie Anne RobinsonWritten by Debbie HorsfieldGuest stars Cherie Lunghi, Ayesha Dharker, Leena Dhingra, Rashid Karapiet

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Episode 7

Episode Seven

Jun 17, 20031hfinale

An explosive end to the second season of Cutting It! Besides Allie having to choose between Gavin and Finn, both salons go up in flames!... and it's not Sunni Khadir behind it.

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Directed by Julie Anne RobinsonWritten by Debbie HorsfieldGuest stars Cherie Lunghi, Ayesha Dharker, Sue Kelly, Caroline O'Neill, Guy Hepworth

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More about Cutting It

Cast

Amanda HoldenMia Bevan

Sarah ParishAllie Henshall

Sian ReevesSydney Henshall

Angela GriffinDarcey Henshall

Ben DanielsFinn Bevan

Jason MerrellsGavin Ferraday

James MurrayLiam Carney

Annette BadlandBrawdie Henshall

Credits

Created by: Debbie Horsfield
Written by: Debbie Horsfield

Production details

Status: Ended
Series type: Scripted
Episodes: 25
Original language: English

Networks & production

BBC OneUnited Kingdom
BBCUnited Kingdom

Themes

businesshairdressermanchesternorthern englandsalon