BREAKING NEWS…
Like a broken puppet on a caffeine-high, we eagerly await the arrival of Hollyoaks Later.
The adverts have promised romance, danger, jokes, fights, tears and giggles… and the return of the Ultimate King of the Soap Bad Boys… the Hooded Niall.
It is about to start…
Stay with The Hollyoaks Herald for the HOLLYOAKS LATER lowdown…
After months of frustrated pantomine-esque shoutings of ‘he’s behind you’ and ‘no he’s evil’ at my verbally abused TV screen, Niall Rafferty has finally taken the plunge and is abducting the McQueen ladies like they’re going out of fashion (seemingly fitting, judging by their couture).
On the birthday of Jacqui Malota, the now usurped second eldest child of Myra McQueen, Niall puts his long drawn out plan into action. With the failed kidnapping attempts of the birthday girl, Niall (played by Barry Sloane, check his dedicated fanbase) eventually captures indecisive mum Tina, using the somewhat lazy line of ‘it’s not as bad as it looks… it’ worse’.
Come on Niall, after months of evil eyes and smokey expressions, you could have given us a bit more juice. Pushing Tina McQueen down a flight of stairs, rendering her infertile, then finally abducting her by throwing us that lethargic line seems less than our committed viewing deserves.
However, Niall must be forgiven, in the hope that what is to come will rival those bad boys of Hollyoaks yore, leaving Toby and Sam as a speck in the rear view mirror of Niall’s white van.
Fingers crossed Niall, (or should we now call him Matthew?) will rise to the challenge of pushing evil Rob off the ultimate Hollyoaks throne as the King of Non-Sweary Crime. Although, can anything compete with throwing four adults into a disused watertank?
Let’s not forget the rest of the gang. The Osbornes are about to jetset into the sun, with fraudulent Jack leaving behind Hollyoaks’ only ‘decent’ watering hole and his gambling son, Darren. Nancy, still desperate to cling on to part of her deceased sister, Becca, insists she will accompany them and her nephew Charlie, to the Costa del Crime. Newt, who appears to be the Schizophrenic glue that is sticking this family of mishaps together, talks her out of it.
Niall is on the rampage, the McQueens are going awol, the Osbornes are jetting off to sunny Spain, and constant Tony is, well, a constant. To paraphrase Niall, ‘it’s not as good as it looks… it’s better’.
