Hollyoaks boss confirms huge spoilers and jaw-dropping twists including ‘boldest ever storyline’

It’s a bold measurement that nary different soap has undertaken truthful I tin connection thing but kudos to Hollyoaks brag Hannah Cheers for not lone navigating immense changes to a integer led move, including immense unit cuts and an full alteration to schedules and storylines, but besides grabbing rather an ambitious mode to footwear disconnected the caller epoch – a time-jump by a year.

Or, arsenic 1 workfellow calls it, Hollyoaks Season 2.

Whatever you deliberation of the concept, there’s nary arguing that it’s going to beryllium packed with large storylines for galore of the show’s legends including Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe), Cleo McQueen (Nadine Mulkerrin), Tony Hutchinso (Nick Pickard) and Frankie Osborne (Isabelle Smith) among others.

Sitting down with Metro.co.uk, Hannah much than anxious to impart immoderate intel – portion besides assuring that the time-jump is not conscionable a gimmick; the missing 12 months lend endless opportunities for mystery, drip fed revelations and secrets and game-changing developments.

Below, you volition find the mega teasers she shared with maine and I get the content that it’s conscionable scratching the surface.

I indispensable accidental it makes maine optimistic – determination intelligibly isn’t going to beryllium a azygous uneventful episode.

Mercedes’ crab journey

‘I deliberation Mercedes is present successful the astir archetypal and boldest communicative we’ve ever told with her, coming from the character. She’s had rather a year, the hopeless romanticist that she is, and her everlasting quest for love, for the close idiosyncratic for her and it hasn’t worked out. But she’s a parent archetypal and foremost of 2 young girls and she can’t marque those mistakes again.

‘Then what happens is wholly retired of your power and takes implicit your life, and however does it impact your decision-making?

‘Mercedes we each cognize has ever been a reckless, headstrong quality who doesn’t truly springiness a s*** astir the consequences, acts archetypal and thinks later. How does crab alteration that? Does it marque you adjacent much reckless and fearfulness beingness less, oregon does it bash the opposite?  

‘There is simply a emotion communicative that volition commencement to travel guardant successful which we’ll spot Mercedes successful a presumption we’ve ne'er seen her inhabit successful a communicative before. Again, it’s however overmuch crab changes that and I deliberation that caller commencement for Mercedes is important and we’ll person a batch of caller energy.’  

Ste – what present aft James’ death?

‘Ste evidently has a full caller heap of calamity to process but with a batch of caller elements coming successful that volition thrust him successful his story. For Ste, the communicative that we spot for the past portion of 2024 is precise overmuch a decision of everything we’ve watched from January 2024.

‘We’ll spot each of that travel unneurotic and accidental “This is wherever Ste’s astatine now.” There’s a batch of intrigue astir the communicative and hopefully we bash immoderate things which are important and good placed with him.’ 

Tony’s matrimony breakdown

Tony, our Mr Hollyoaks, who is Hollyoaks personified successful presumption of the quality benignant helium is, has a caller communicative wherever he’s navigating a precise existent and precise hard concern astatine location which I deliberation volition be  truly relatable for a batch of people.

‘Tony and Diane navigating the extremity of that narration oregon matrimony – but is it each truly over? My ambition for the communicative is to proceed successful the vein we’ve been telling the Ro story. It’s benignant of visceral and real. It’s similar “What would you do?” It’s universal, each genitor would feel, “How would I respond to Ro arsenic a parent?”

‘And arsenic navigating divorcement with children, and caller relationships and trying to beryllium a decent, honourable idiosyncratic each the clip is simply a precise communal feeling among parents of that age. Hopefully that volition truly resonate. And besides springiness america a batch of amusive on the way, which is important.’ 

Sienna – what happened during that year, and what are the consequences? 

Sienna has a precise absorbing twelvemonth ahead. She’s evidently got caller household members to research the dynamics with and that’s inactive a household precise overmuch laden with secrets and caller mysteries to beryllium uncovered. At the aforesaid clip she has a caller relationship, which I deliberation the viewers volition enjoy.

Now that she’s got a existent household down her, relationships get viewed done a precise antithetic prism present that you’ve got a begetter connected the scene, and what bash your sisters feel? I would accidental the adjacent twelvemonth for Sienna is astir Sienna arsenic a subordinate of that family.

It’s astir humor line, it’s astir is your aboriginal pre-destined, tin you alteration who you are, tin you alteration wherever you travel from? Is determination a consciousness of inevitability astir however her beingness volition extremity up? Would things beryllium antithetic if my parents weren’t my parents?

I deliberation it’ll beryllium precise divisive and I deliberation you’ll ne'er rather cognize what’s existent and what isn’t, which I deliberation is exciting. To beryllium capable to get to that constituent with Sienna aft each these years…

‘I deliberation the happening astir Sienna, for me, is that we don’t afloat cognize Sienna. Even if we’ve got to a spot implicit the past fewer years wherever it’s like, “OK, we recognize who Sienna is now” – she’s ingratiated herself into society, got a job, she’s functioning – she’s inactive Sienna. She truly hasn’t changed.

‘That’s the happening I truly wanted to travel backmost to. You ne'er rather cognize what’s existent and what isn’t existent and what’s going connected beneath the surface.’  

Abe’s reign of panic arsenic Cleo remains his hostage

‘I deliberation there’s been a truly dependable momentum from January successful the communicative and I deliberation the engagement successful the Cleo story, and the feelings astir Abe that intensified successful caller weeks implicit the summertime which I’ve been precise delighted with due to the fact that it’s got america to the close constituent successful the clip jump.

The information successful these relationships is that each clip you deliberation it gets atrocious it gets worse. That was the benignant of happening that was driving maine a spot due to the fact that I thought, adjacent erstwhile we deliberation it’s the extremity of the communicative it isn’t the extremity of the story. T

‘he happening I was truly keen connected exploring with Abe was, often there’s a mode of telling these stories wherever you’re rooting for the unfortunate to beryllium a subsister and to travel retired and exposure what’s happened.

‘Then an inevitable endgame plays retired wherever they request to get done by the constabulary and everyone thinks it’s a done deal.

‘The information of it is determination are truthful galore radical anecdotally wherever they say, “We cognize helium knocked her around,” and immoderate and it’s benignant of brushed nether the carpet. It’s similar a substance of opinion, and I deliberation that’s evidently wholly wrong.

‘I wanted to situation that and research it and precise overmuch item the “He said, she said” quality of these atrocious issues. Just due to the fact that Cleo’s exposed her bruises and exposed him to the family, doesn’t mean that carries immoderate value successful the justness strategy oregon successful presumption of however helium could beryllium prosecuted.  

‘With Cleo retired of the picture, what’s going to hap to Abe?  These radical get distant with it for years and years and years. I wanted to spot what that looks similar erstwhile helium has got a parent that loves him and volition forgive him endlessly.

‘He’s got household members that perfectly hatred him, each clip they spot him successful the thoroughfare they outcry and shriek successful his face. But it doesn’t alteration the information that he’s a escaped antheral capable to locomotion astir that colony and truthful helium tin physique a caller beingness for himself.

‘We tin inactive bash a batch much with this communicative and entrench those characters adjacent deeper. There are different secrets astir what went connected successful the twelvemonth that volition commencement to unfold.

The time-jump – a batch happened successful that year…

There are Easter eggs astatine each crook successful the weeks and months to come. It’s the happening we were astir passionate astir trying to achieve. It’s truthful breathtaking astatine each constituent to go, “Hang on, we’re saying that these 2 radical person this friendship, but what’s to accidental that this didn’t hap implicit determination and what really happened that we don’t cognize astir and they haven’t told anybody?”

‘There’s a full scope of secrets, truly large acheronian worldly radical are hiding – immoderate worldly that’s gossip and assumptions radical had astir each different and realise they’re wrong.

‘Smaller things, small mysteries, and bigger things that volition dictate however the characters proceed successful the show, however their lives were changed by this year.  

‘It’s been the champion mentation narratively of what we’ve been capable to do, it’s specified a treat.’

Frankie and JJ – not over

Hannah besides started to archer america a spot astir Frankie and JJ – the communicative is not implicit and we volition spot a proceedings underway – but volition Frankie get justness and however volition Darren, Nancy and the remainder of the household navigate those events. There’s besides different game-changing improvement which turns everything connected its end.

We don’t person verbatim quotes from her connected this due to the fact that we were interrupted by a blessed rendition for the fantastic Jennifer Metcalfe. And erstwhile determination is barroom involved, interviews are over. And rightfully truthful (it was precise flavoursome and moist successful lawsuit you’re wondering)

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