'Shameless' Spoilers: 5 Things That Will Happen to Team Gallagher During Season 6

As a Shameless viewer, there are certain things you have come to expect from #TeamGallagher. Each season, Frank will do something really despicable, Fiona will find herself in a romantic quagmire, and barely anyone will pay attention to poor Liam.

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The show kicks off its sixth season this Sunday and we have the scoop on some of the things that will happen to the beleaguered Gallagher gang. Needless to say there are spoilers, so proceed with caution…

1. Fiona will be a bride.

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The paparazzi snapped a photo of Emmy Rossum on the set wearing this lacy, form-fitting wedding gown and Shanola Hampton, who plays Fi’s BFF V, posted pix of the cast in formal attire. So there will be a wedding… right? “There may be,” show EP Nancy Pimental hedges during an interview with Yahoo TV before adding, “That’s so funny, I didn’t know there were paparazzi pictures of her.” Our favorite waitress starts the season partnered up with diner dude Sean (Dermot Mulroney), but let’s remember that she’s still married to Mr. Music, Gus (Steve Kazee), and Rossum posted a photo of them together on the set, so expect that he’ll turn up at some point. “We’re down to one primary [love interest for Fiona] and finding closure with another one. And with the one primary one, the complications that go along with that. Is that evasive enough?” Pimental says with a laugh.

2. Frank is as shameless as ever.

In the first episode, we see him pleasure himself at his dead girlfriend’s grave. And did we mention that he’s taken to wearing her underwear? Yep. So does William H. Macy say yes to every crazy idea writers put in the script? “He’s fearless,” Pimental marvels. “A lot of times he’s offering suggestions too — like, ‘What if I do this?’ So, yeah, he’s a trouper. He’s really game.” While Frank starts out the season in a rut because he can’t get Bianca (Bojana Novakovic) out of his mind, “He finds his Frank way to resolve his heartbreak in only a Frank Gallagher kind of way,” Pimental promises. “It’s a slippery slope for him and he finds his own rules for living in his world.”

3. Debs will break your heart.

Back in September, Macy himself said that the first half of this season is all about pregnancy. One doesn’t need a crystal ball to know that sweet Debbie (Emma Kenney) is in the family way after trying to get pregnant last season. This isn’t your traditional pregnancy storyline though. “We wanted to have a voice of the girl who’s actually proud, excited, and happy” to have a bun in the oven, Pimental explains. “She wants to reinvent her family. It’s funny because when I went to college, I just wanted to be free whereas my brother basically married the first woman he met because he wanted to reinvent his family. There are people who do that. They push the reset button. So we wanted to show that and explore that and empower that.”

4. Ian and Mickey are done — for now.

With Mickey (Noel Fisher) behind bars for several years for trying to kill Sammi, that’s the end of the fan fave Gallavich romance. “You will not” see them get back together, but Ian (Cameron Monaghan) will “be slopping through trying to figure out his love life and his professional life because who is he? He thought he was this Army guy and that’s all come apart, so he’s in deep exploration,” Pimental teases. Look for him to have a rocky start with a sweeter finish. “He’s sort of a mess in the beginning and he then finds a real purpose. I think it’s going to be really satisfying where we go with him.”

5. And, no, Carl won’t have his cornrows all season.

“White boy Carl,” which is what his fellow inmates call him, gets released from lockup early on, but he brings home his new lifestyle. In his South Side neighborhood and at school, he flexes his muscles a bit. But what about that hair? Are his cornrows a permanent thing this season? “He will keep them until the second half. He was like, Nance, please you have to find a way of taking them out. They’re killing me,” Pimental says laughing. “Ethan [Cutkosky] was such a trouper in all this because he was miserable. I guess it really hurt. So symbolically in the second half they do get taken out because his lifestyle starts to bite him in the ass.”

Shameless returns Sunday, Jan. 10 at 9 p.m. on Showtime. Don’t want to wait? We have a TV-14 version of the premiere that you can watch right now: