Hollyoaks fans left 'sobbing' over 'powerful' Mercedes McQueen scene after cancer update

Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks issued an update connected Mercedes McQueen's crab conflict during the latest occurrence and fans were near successful tears arsenic she wasn't fixed bully news

Hollyoaks fans were reduced to tears arsenic instrumentality favourite Mercedes McQueen was fixed conscionable 12 months to unrecorded successful heartbreaking scenes.

After the Channel 4 soap's clip jump, it was revealed that Mercedes (Jennifer Metcalfe) had been diagnosed with bowel crab implicit the erstwhile year. She has already undergone country and chemotherapy, but a secondary tumour was recovered connected her liver that the doctors are attempting to treat.

During Tuesday's (September 24) episode, which is disposable to ticker connected Channel 4 online, Mercedes was told the devastating quality that the chemo hadn’t worked, and without a specializer cause which was hard to source, she had astatine astir a twelvemonth to live.

The occurrence ended with a almighty country that progressive Mercedes looking astatine herself successful the reflector successful a susceptible state: successful her underwear, without her wig and with her stoma container connected show. She past listened to a CD that was enactment unneurotic by her loved ones and danced done her tears arsenic she came to presumption with this terrifying news.

Taking to X, formerly cognize arsenic Twitter, 1 instrumentality penned: "That extremity country was acted and enactment unneurotic truthful beautifully, but it was specified a horrible watch, you could consciousness Mercedes pain. Jen Metcalfe needs awards for this storyline!" Another added: "That extremity country with Mercedes was specified a hard watch! She truly needs Nana, Myra and Jacqui close now!."

A 3rd idiosyncratic posted: "I’m crying astatine #Hollyoaks having Mercedes creation to Beenie Man’s Rum and Redbull, bless her." Someone other said: "Actually cried watching today's @Hollyoaks truthful powerful." A 5th said: "This storyline is truthful heartbreaking sobbed truthful overmuch watching Mercedes scenes." A sixth agreed: "Mercedes crab communicative is truthful bittersweet to watch! Jen Metcalfe is giving a terrific performance."

Opening up astir filming the scenes, Jennifer said: "It felt beautiful, awful, draining, amazing, special, exciting, sad, upsetting… each azygous emotion that you could feel. [In the scene], I spell from looking astatine myself successful the reflector and taking it in, getting affectional astir it, past I look astatine my children and I get immoderate strength. So I play this CD, and past each my friends are telling maine immoderate bully words that marque maine laugh.

"Then this unthinkable euphony plays, and I creation freely. I was like, 'Wow, however americium I going to bash this?'" The histrion has a idiosyncratic transportation to Mercedes’ crab storyline and was capable to transmission this emotion into the harrowing scene.

"My dada died erstwhile I was 15 of bowel cancer," she said, "so determination was real, earthy trauma determination for maine that I’ve astir apt ne'er dealt with. I had to excavation a small spot heavy into idiosyncratic experiences."

Hollyoaks airs Monday to Wednesday connected E4 astatine 7pm and archetypal look episodes tin beryllium streamed Channel 4 from 7am