Hollyoaks legend Jennifer Metcalfe teases huge stunt as soap prepares for dramatic time-jump and episode changes
HOLLYOAKS legend Jennifer Metcalfe has dropped a huge teaser for the show’s dramatic stunt ahead of a cast cull.
The Sun previously revealed how bosses on the Channel 4 soap were axing a whopping 20 stars.
It comes as execs at the broadcaster slashed Hollyoaks to just three episodes a week and pulled it from the main channel.
And now one of its longest-serving stars Jennifer Metcalfe has dropped a teaser for the next era of the show.
The actress, 40, revealed stunts the show has ‘never done before’ in an exclusive chat with The Sun at the Radio Times soap awards.
Jennifer said: “Do you know what, we’re just filming the last lot of the five episodes and the start of the three episodes.
“I’ve never felt so excited about Hollyoaks – how it’s wrapping it up is like something we’ve never done before and how it’s introducing the ‘new show’ as I call it is just unbelievable.”
Jennifer added: “You’ll see characters in a position where you’ve never seen them before, like literally ever.
“I think we’ve had times over the last 20 years with Mercedes where I’ve gone ‘oh I’ve not done this before, I’ve not explored this avenue and it is just I haven’t but to this depth with my character is going to be something different.
“Personally as an actor I can’t wait to smash it.”
The mum-of-one also paid tribute to co-stars who have been axed, including Stephanie Waring who played Cindy Cunningham.
Jennifer said: “It’s been a really sad time, not just cast but crew as well. There’s been massive changes in the crew, probably more so than the cast and because I’ve been there for 20 years I’ve felt probably more from the crew going than the cast going.
“They’ve been my family for 20 years and it’s been really heavy there, it hasn’t been easy at all but we are all pulling together.
“The people that are leaving we are fully supportive of their journey and everyone that’s left we’re like ‘come on, what are we gonna make of this now’.”
Hollyoaks' biggest ever stunts
Niall Rafferty holding the McQueen family hosted in a church filled with explosives after Myra abandoned him as a baby
The arson attack on the Gnosh restaurant which claimed the lives of Steph Roach and Malachy Fisher
The train crash of 2014 that saw Carmel McQueen tragically die as the train collided with Sienna Blake’s car that was broken down on the tracks
Nico Blake – the daughter of Sienna – and her murdering spree that resulted in the death of Joe Roscoe at a Halloween funfair in Chester
Clare Devine’s bomb attack aimed at the Loft nightclub that accidentally ended up in Ste Hay and Doug Carter’s flat – when the crazed killer detonated the device it went off, killing Doug as well as Leanne Holiday and Ash Kane
Maddie Morrison ploughing a mini bus into the joint wedding of Tony Hutchinson and Cindy Cunningham alongside Ste Hay and Doug Carter which resulted in Jono Johnson, Neil Copper, Maddie and Rhys Ashworth’s deaths
The deadly blaze at the Dog in the Pond that was started by Sam Owen, intending to kill Soph but when Calvin tried to stop him, the fire engulfed the pub, killing Soph, her twin sister Mel as well as Joe Spencer and Olivia Johnson