Hollyoaks actress Emma Rigby has quit her role in the Channel 4 soap after nearly four years, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal.
The 19-year-old, who won the 'Best Actress' accolade at this year's British Soap Awards, is to leave early next year in order to pursue other drama, film and theatre projects.
Speaking exclusively to DS, she said: "I've been on Hollyoaks since I was 15 and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment. I just feel that the time is right to move on and hopefully...
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Former Hollyoaks actor James Sutton has landed a guest role in BBC One's flagship medical drama Casualty.
The 25-year-old, who played popular character John Paul McQueen for two years, will appear as Eli, a narcoleptic whose condition causes him to spontaneously fall asleep.
Eli's close friend Jenna (Pippa Duffy) asks him to watch her cat while she's at work, but when Eli notices that she's left something behind, he decides to follow her. However, as he waits as the bus stop, he suddenly falls asleep and misses his ride.
The rumours have been rife for months now, but today we can confirm that Roxanne McKee (Louise) will leave HOLLYOAKS in an explosive storyline that will climax this Christmas...
Betrayal and revenge!
As Louise excitedly plans her Christmas wedding, her appetite for revenge is fuelled when she discovers, after weeks of suspicion, that Warren is having an affair with her best friend and bridesmaid Mandy (Sarah-Jayne Dunn). On the outside, Louise is the excited bride-to-be but on the inside she is concocting the ultimate master plan. But who is at the top of Louise's hit...
Watch out, Oakdale! Dr. Ric Decker (John James), a.k.a. Dr. Death, is making his way back to "As the World Turns" on Tuesday, July 15.
The charming Dr. Ric first showed up as a love interest for Susan Stewart (Marie Masters) back in 2003, and quickly nabbed himself a job at Memorial Hospital. And pretty soon ... patients and staff started dying. But no one believed the culprit could possibly be Ric. Even though the murders began right after he dropped into town. Even after they found out he'd been accused of killing patients at another hospital. Yep, this guy was that good.