Alan Halsall’s ex wife Lucy-Jo Hudson lands new TV role after admitting she struggled to find work after soap exit

I'M A Celeb prima Alan Halsall's ex woman Lucy-Jo Hudson has landed a marque caller TV relation aft her Hollyoaks exit.

The actress, who played Donna-Marie Quinn connected the Channel 4 soap, revealed that she's already filming for a caller show.

Lucy-Jo, 41, who divided from Coronation Street histrion Alan, 42, successful 2018, shared a photograph from her connected acceptable dressing room.

She posted a representation of her posing successful the reflector with the publication successful her hand.

But the TV prima has cleverly hid the rubric page, which prompted galore fans to speculate what amusement she would beryllium appearing in.

Lucy captioned it: "Back Filming again.

"I consciousness truthful blessed that one get to bash a occupation that I genuinely love, 25 years successful the biz and I inactive don’t instrumentality it for granted."

Lucy, who shares girl Sienna-Rae, 10, with Alan, noted that juggling motherhood and enactment pressures tin beryllium hard.

She added: "It's not ever casual juggling kids, work, and everything successful between, but each 2nd is worthy it.

"Feeling truthful grateful for this crazy, beauteous life."

Many fans were hopeless to cognize what Lucy-Jo volition beryllium starring in.

One anxious follower wrote: "Brilliant news.. So blessed for you. Is it going to beryllium connected terrestrial TV? Don't interest I'm not sportfishing for info. Its conscionable different one wont beryllium capable to ticker it . I'll support an oculus retired for it though."

A 2nd posted: "Is this aforesaid happening you person been moving on? Spill the beans please."

A 3rd commented: "Yes yes yes Lucy. So blessed to spot you doing what you love. Enjoy it. Looking guardant to seeing you connected surface soon."

Her Hollyoaks quality exited the soap successful September 2023 aft the decease of her daughter, Juliet Nightingale, from cancer. 

Shortly aft leaving, Lucy-Jo revealed her different "side hustle" of being a question agent.

She announced the news on Instagram alongside a glamorous photograph of herself posing successful the women's loos connected a nighttime out.

She said: "In my industry, it's not easy.

"I could audition for 8 occupation and get none, yet I could autumn into a job next week, oregon I mightiness not enactment for 6 months!

"It's not casual but I proceed to propulsion arsenic I emotion thing much than acting!

"But portion I'm successful limbo, I person decided I request a side hustle. Something that volition acceptable astir the kids, that I tin instrumentality connected the roadworthy erstwhile I'm going to London for castings, thing I tin support moving connected portion I get an acting relation I love.

"And I've recovered the cleanable thing! Does anyone other fancy moving from location earning an other income? Watch this space! #LJsTravelClub."

Lucy-Jo nd Alan met portion connected the acceptable of Coronation Street.

Alan, who had been connected the soap for 4 years by this time, instantly struck up a relationship with the actress.

This soon turned to romance, and by 2004 they had started dating.

Their clip moving unneurotic came to an extremity successful 2005 erstwhile Lucy-Jo was killed off, but they continued their narration distant from the cobbles.

The brace didn't hold agelong to get joined and tied the knot successful June 2009 and welcomed their archetypal kid unneurotic successful 2013.

In May 2018, Lucy-Jo and Alan shocked fans when they announced they were getting divorced.

Their matrimony had reportedly been struggling for immoderate time, and saw them divided successful 2016, earlier getting backmost together.

A root told The Sun astatine the time: “It’s precise amicable but they’ve decided to spell their abstracted ways.

“Alan’s been joking that he’s having a mid-life situation and helium went and treated himself to a marque caller car 5 days ago. It’s a hard clip for some of them.

“They’re devastated the matrimony is implicit but person vowed to enactment friends. They inactive truly attraction for each other.”

Following their divided announcement, Lucy revealed: "I tin corroborate Al and I are successful the process of divorcing. We stay friends and devoted Mummy and Daddy to our girl Sienna."

Lucy-Jo and Alan were antecedently said to person had an "amicable split".

However successful November 2024, as Alan headed into the I'm A Celebrity jungle, it was reported they are present "barely speaking" to each other.

An insider told The Sun: “Alan and Lucy-Jo inactive aren’t connected speaking terms.

“If Alan needs thing helium goes done her boyfriend Lewis (Devine).

"They some privation what’s champion for their girl Sienna but they won’t communicate.

"Things are conscionable arsenic atrocious arsenic erstwhile they archetypal fell out.

“Alan inactive has a fewer issues with however things played retired betwixt them erstwhile they split.”

Since 2018, Lucy-Jo has been successful a narration with Lewis Devine, who she met erstwhile she was doing panto.

Meanwhile, Alan recovered emotion with former co-star Tisha Merry.

They were unneurotic for 5 years until 2024 earlier they called clip connected their romance.