Ex-Hollyoaks star Barry Sloane (Niall Rafferty) has been cast in a recurring role in the second season of ABC's drama Revenge. He is set to play Ethan a mysterious man who has ties to Emily's (Emily VanKamp) past.
Revenge returns for its second season in the US in September in its new home of Sunday's at 9pm and continues its first season in the UK every Monday night at 9pm on E4.
The TVChoice Awards 2012 nominations have been announced and in the soap catagories Hollyoaks has picked up two. First a Best Actor nomination for Emmett Scanlan (Brendan Brady) and secondly a Best Soap nomination for Hollyoaks.
Voting has opened over on the official TVChoice website and will remain open until midnight on Friday 13th July 2012.
Here's a behind the scenes featurette of the filming of the scene where Lynsey is officially declared dead, that aired during the episode that aired on Friday 29th June 2012 on E4 and will air on Channel4 on Monday 2nd July 2012. During this feature Karen Hassan talks about her feelings on her final storyline, and Emmett Scanlan talks about his elation at the material he's been given lately.
Catch this scene and the aftermath of Lynsey's death on Monday 2nd July 2012 at 6.30pm on Channel 4.
He killed several women in the village including his own daughter but although he tried many a time Silas was never able to silence his biggest foe Lynsey. Following his failed attack on her Lynsey was convinced he was the serial killer and made her theories heavily public, although no one believed her she never gave up. Following Silas' final attempt on her life during the Halloween celebration at Chez-Chez that saw him mistakenly kill his daughter Heidi, Lynsey was able to have the laugh as she wished him "Sweet Dreams" in their final encounter. Still feeling angry about being outwitted by Lynsey was he able to escape from the mental institution of which he now resides to silence her for good, or did he have outside help? That is for you to decide is Silas guilty or not guilty?
Having both survived Silas Blissett's reign of terror they became close friends until recently when that became strained after Mercedes learned of Lynsey's involvement with Riley. Although she acted fine about it she still held a level of animosity towards Lynsey. This intensified when Lynsey discovered the truth about Mercedes stalking Mitzeee and confronted her demanding that she tell Riley the truth. Did Mercedes feel as though her life was about to self destruct and take drastic action to silence the person she saw as the biggest threat to her 'happy' family? That's for you to decide is Mercedes guilty or not guilty?
He recently came to town looking for Brendan having been in prison together,since arriving he has got Brendan mixed up with a not so trustworthy crowd, but does Walker have other intentions that he hasn't revealed yet. That was the opinion of Lynsey who made he suspicions of Walker pretty public, did he feel threatened by what she may uncover? That's for you to decide is Walker guilty or not guilty?
As the investigation into Lynsey's death continues one of the prime suspects is Brendan's latest rival and enemy Sampson. After already threatening Joel's life with a fake grenade did he escalate the feud further, by targeting and killing one of Brendan oldest and closest friends who he considered family. Watch the two interrogation videos below to help make your mind up, is he guilty or not guilty?
And so the investigation begins with Lynsey's death sending shockwaves through Hollyoaks Village who do you think carried out the unforgivable deed. The official cause of death has been ruled as murder by asphyxiation, and as seen in the video and the new promotional image below, the officially named suspects are Silas, Mercedes, Walker, Ally, Sampson and the unthinkable yet theorised Will Savage.
Breakdown on Suspects & Motives
Silas Blisset
Did Hollyoaks notorious serial killer and Lynsey's worst nightmare manage to escape the mental institution where her resides or enlist help on the outside to finally see off his biggest foe?
Mercedes Fisher
With Lynsey discovering the truth about her stalking Mitzeee and holding the smoking gun that could destroy her relationship with Riley once for and for all. Did she finally snap an set about silencing her once time ally and best friend?
Simon 'Walker'
With Lynsey on a mission to learn the truth about who her really is and what his true intentions are, did he make sure that she'll never be able do so and ruin his yet unknown plan?
Ally Gorman
Still fairly new in town he is seen as the handsome and friendly Australian army medic yet in recent weeks he started to show a darker side, which didn't go unnoticed by local investigator Lynsey. Who first set about trying to figure out his connection to Walker then after seeing him in a strip club threatened his relationship with Amy. Did he go about making sure Lynsey would never interfere in his business again?
Sampson
A local thug with a axe of vengeance to grind with Brendan, having threatened Joel's life on more than one occasion, did he finally go about settling the score by killing Lynsey who Brendan saw as a sister.
Someone Else
Or was the culprit someone else who has not been considered, Will Savage was acting suspicious in the village taking pictures shortly before the crime was committed and became highly offensive when Lynsey took an interest in what he was doing. Does the usually calm an gentle student have a darker personality that would go to extremes to hide what he doing.Or is there a copy-cat killer on the loose hoping to gain the same acclaim and status as Silas Blissett.
Following the shocking and unexpected exit of Karen Hassan with the dramatic yet heartbreaking death of Hollyoaks resident heroine Lynsey Nolan, relive 5 of her best moments in the video below.
I have been seriously busy over the past few months with the completion of my degree but I'm back and hopefully will be able to post more regularly again. As a returning gift for you all, here are some spoiler pictures from the episodes of Hollyoaks due to air during the week of the 18th - 22nd June 2012 on C4 and E4.
Tonight marks the final of the this series of Dancing on Ice and Hollyoaks's Jorgie Porter (Theresa McQueen) is in the final three with her skating partner Matt Evers. Make sure you show your support for the duo tonight as they go head to head with Matthew Wolfenden with his skating partner Nina Ulanova and Chico with his skating partner Jodeyne Higgins.
The final of Dancing on Ice airs tonight starting at 6.50pm on ITV1.
The All About Soap Awards were held last night and Hollyoaks was victorious in three of the categories winning, Best Actor for Emmet J. Scanlan (Brendan Brady), Best Episode for Halloween Fright Night and Best Villain went to Jeff Rawle (Silas Blissett).
