Any chance you could copy and paste the article please, if it's not too much trouble, I can't view it, it's blocked (library computer) :)

Sorry Kate but that website does not let you do it:(. They ask people not to or they will withdraw their service.

AH, ok, no problem :D I saw your little spoiler summary anyhow. Looking forward to the christmas plots :)

Thanks:). I like to summarise it, the show just needs a new bad girl now.

Warren may be going but Emmett Scanlan has confirmed that he is sticking around as Brendan for the long term at the moment which is good news:).

Great news, prefer him to Warren anyway, not that Warren hasn't been brilliant, he has, Jamie Lomas is a great actor, but as a character he has done everything there is to be done I think. We need a bad girl to the standard of Clare Devine again.

Is ''Ethan'' still in it? That's my brothers roomates brother

Yep, Ethan is still in the show, his character has just done a hit and run (using a mobile phone while driving - tsk) so don't know for how much longer.

Think his contract runs out soon, only signed a year deal

It is standard Hollyoaks procedure to only offer contracts for a year due to filming time etc, they renew them every year unless an actor decides to leave or is axed.

I really don't like Ethan and wish he would go but Craig Vye seems nice in what I have seen of him in videos/interviews outside of the show.

Can't expect much from Tony, Cindy, Amy or Ste until the new year then -sigh-

Hollyoaks star Rob Norbury has claimed that his on-screen grandfather Jeff Rawle is a hit with the ladies.

Rawle joined his former soap colleagues on a night out recently and was apparently surrounded by women who wanted to meet the man behind evil Silas Blissett.

Norbury, who plays footballer Riley Costello, told PA: "He came out for a night out with us in Liverpool and he got mobbed. I was getting a bit jealous. All these hot blondes were coming up to him. I was like, 'I'm not happy here'.

"He's a bit of a pin-up, forget all those Dirty Dens and all that."

He continued: "He'll be up for a sexiest male nomination. He can have my longlist nomination because I won't be getting on it, you can put Jeff Rawle up. I think he'll win it!"

Hollyoaks brought the Silas storyline to a close earlier this month after he was finally exposed as the village's serial killer.

Silas was caught after accidentally killing his own daughter Heidi Costello (Kim Tiddy), his fourth murder since joining the show.

If Jeff Rawle is still based in Liverpool or just returned to meet the cast again, could he have returned to film some more scenes e.g. in prison or a trial for his character.

The Hollyoaks Executive Producer, Emma Smithwick is finally having an interview with Digital Spy on Wednesday:), keep an eye out some time after that for when it is published.

Excited now to hear what her plans for the show and characters are...

Rob is really starting to annoy me...

Not that that is a bad thing, at least he's an interesting character.

I certainly hope so.

Hollyoaks star Carley Stenson has filmed a one-off return to the soap for a special Christmas episode.

The actress's character Steph Roach will appear as an angel as Doug Carter teeters on the brink of death this Boxing Day.

Doug, played by PJ Brennan, starts to feel lonely and depressed in the build-up to the festive season and finds himself questioning whether his life is worth living at all.

With his friends all home for the holidays, Doug reaches breaking point and jumps from a bridge. However, he then finds himself back at his flat with the heavenly vision of Steph before him.

Angel Steph soon starts trying to convince Doug of the positive impact he has had in the village over the past year. Steph shows Doug that without his influence, one teenage resident would be pregnant, while another character would be a broken man after losing his loved ones at the hands of evil Silas Blissett.

However, Doug also sees that his late girlfriend Bex (Daisy Turner) would still be alive if he had never arrived in Chester.

A Hollyoaks statement teased: "Faced with the decision of whether to go to heaven and save Becks' life, or return to Hollyoaks and save the fate of his friends, which path will Doug
choose?"

Stenson bowed out from Hollyoaks late last year, when Steph died in the dramatic Il Gnosh fire.

Hollyoaks will air the special Doug-centric episode on Monday, December 26 at 6.30pm on Channel 4.

OMG:amazed:. I am not sure Doug knew Steph well enough?

erm what?

I would prefer Annaliese to ditch him, and get together with Scott, he is sweet.

Steph returning for one episode as a ghost for part of the storyline where Doug is on the verge of committing suicide.

Rob does not really register on my radar, he is meh. I like Annalise and Scott too:).

i no but like? they didnt even have any scenes together

Another bizarre random thing:joker:.

Hollyoaks seem to have forgotten the storyline where Theresa found out who her father was, then all of a sudden she is saying to Joel she does not know who it is? Amnesia alert:joker:.

well isn't she not supposed to tell anyone who the father is?

I wonder if we will ever get a part 2 of this thread?:cool:;)

She has forgotten all the Billy stuff that happened and so have the writers.

sorry i read it wrong, i thought u ment the father of Kathleen-Angel!