Sad news for Hollyoaks fans as it has been announced that Ayden Callaghan, who plays Joe Roscoe, will be leaving the show.
Viewers have seen Joe in an induced coma after he was almost killed by Grace Black, unlucky in love with Mercedes who cheated on him with Lockie Campbell, unlucky with Lindsey Butterfield who cheated on him and then left him for his brother Freddie Roscoe and devastatingly losing his son Gabriel McQueen after he died. More recently we’ve seen Joe, Mercedes McQueen and Joanne Cardsley’s love triangle play out.
And now it has been revealed that the 42-year-old actor has already filmed his final scenes but it has been teased by a soap source that: “There will be a thrilling climax to the love triangle between Joe, Mercedes and Joanne and sparks will fly,” they told The Sun.
Eek!
We’ve seen Mercedes and Joanne battle it out over Joe but now that we know Joe is leaving the show soon we’re excited to see where the storyline heads…
In the past Ayden (who was nominated for Closer’s Dad of the Year Award) asked to be written out of a stillborn storyline because the storyline was too close to home. His wife Sarah-Jane Honeywell who previously suffered a miscarriage revealed on her blog that she begged Ayden to see if there was a way to get out of the storyline: “I hadn’t even thought about the possibility of a still birth until then [the storyline], but now it was firmly in my mind.
“I just thought, if something does go wrong at our real birth and he is acting that out, I just don’t know how either of us will get through that.”
The pair welcomed their beautiful baby boy into the world Phoenix last year.
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