Hollyoaks star Garcia Brown quits soap after three years and she's already filmed final scenes

Garcia Brown, who played Zoe connected Hollyoaks, has near the amusement aft astir 3 years, conscionable a week aft the soap said an affectional farewell to 2 precocious stars

Hollyoaks prima Garcia Brown has shocked fans with the abrupt quality that she’s near the show.

Garcia has played Zoe, the granddaughter of Pearl Anderson, connected the Channel 4 soap since February 2022, and seems to person already filmed her last scenes, with her quality having headed disconnected to Dubai on with babe lad Theo. The histrion broke the quality connected Instagram today, firstly reposting a photograph from manager Sean Glynn. Alongside the snap, helium wrote: “"Saying goodbye to the fab @garciaabrown this week. Always a pleasance to enactment with specified a affirmative and genuinely beauteous person."

In the remark section, Garcia replied: "Thank you for ever being amazing, appreciated each country we worked on! Our paths shall transverse again Sean, God bless."

She besides shared the station to her Stories, and added: “One of my fav directors from Hollyoaks, our paths shall transverse again!”

In different post, Garcia posed with the adorable histrion who plays Theo, and gushed: "I had thee cutest connected surface son! Loved the small clip we shared connected set. Thank you for trusting maine with small Roman" alongside tagging the boy’s mum.

She added a 2nd changeable of herself and her on-screen son, and wrote: "Playing a mommy connected surface was fun, & truthful was moving astir connected acceptable with this small 1 successful betwixt takes."

In the comments of assorted posts, fans made it wide they were heartbroken to accidental goodbye to some Garcia and Zoe truthful soon. “She is an astonishing histrion volition miss her truthful much,” 1 instrumentality wrote, with different sharing: “I americium gutted her and Prince ne'er worked out.”

Garcia’s departure comes aft two Hollyoaks actors died past week, conscionable 1 time apart. On Wednesday, it was announced that Diane Langton, who played Nana McQueen, had tragically passed distant aged 77. On Thursday, it was announced that Paul Danan, who played Sol Patrick, had sadly died aged 46.

Alongside the losses, however, Hollyoaks has snagged immoderate large talent to assistance retired down the scenes. Lee Rayner, who has served arsenic Head of Production connected Coronation Street for implicit 10 years, is reportedly leaving the cobbles for a grittier challenge.

The TV exec has worked astatine ITV's Coronation Street since 2011, putting successful 2 years arsenic an adjunct manager earlier filling the accumulation manager relation successful 2013, and graduating to Head of Production successful 2021. Before that, helium gained credits successful plentifulness of different shows, including Death successful Paradise, Doctors, and The Bill.

Now, however, he’s ditching ITV for Channel 4, and moving implicit to Hollyoaks. According to Broadcast, Lee volition instrumentality implicit the relation from Colette Chard, who’s moving connected to a kid’s play tally by the aforesaid accumulation company, Lime Pictures, arsenic Hollyoaks.

In a statement, Lee gushed: “I americium thrilled to beryllium embarking connected a caller escapade astatine Lime Pictures arsenic caput of accumulation for Hollyoaks and helping to present specified an engaging high-end drama.

“I’m besides precise excited to reunite erstwhile again with the incredibly talented Hannah Cheers and truly looking guardant to getting to cognize and moving with the accumulation team, who person an industry-wide estimation arsenic highly-skilled filmmakers.”

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