It was always a running joke they were all blonde!
Clearly I blocked James corden out
Spot on. I used to wonder when I was younger why all the women were blonde and slim, and everyone was white, it was very odd.
Then they introduced a larger, red-headed token character for a while. But the poor love looked exactly that, and stuck out like a sore thumb.
I watched it religiously years ago (and to be honest, I was far too old to be watching it even then, my lodger got me into it) but stopped when it got too ridiculous even by Hollyoaks' standards. How many (pantomine) serial killers does one village have the misfortune of having? Silas and Lindsay, then Nico.
How many tragic deaths can the McQueen family endure? To be fair, they just wheel out another long-lost family member to replace them. I was gutted when Carmel was killed off. How many times has Mercedes been married? In fact people on Hollyoaks' seem to get married after just a few months of dating.
And the McQueens family all had
completely different regional accents. Bizarre.
It came on in the background the other day while I was working and good to see it's a lot more inclusive now, lots of POC, disabled characters and LGBTQ+ characters. I think the lady who plays the headteacher was the first trans character in a soap (Hayley Cropper doesn't count!). I didn't recognise half the cast, but saw old ones back, Mandy and Kurt for example. I thought he was dead?
But I've never known a soap with so many annoying characters, Grace, Sienna, Mandy I'm looking at you! Brendan was fit, best looking male character in my book.
I remember seeing the odd episode when I was actually in the show's demographic and being haunted by a character's death, I think he was called Lewis. He took a paracetamol overdose and came round in hospital. He then decided that he'd made a stupid mistake and was glad to be alive when the doctor told him that the paracetamol had done irreversible damage to his liver and he was crying, "I don't want to diiiiie!". Then died.
Anyway, I digress. As you were folks.