Greg Vaughan reveals he is leaving Days of Our Lives after eight years on the soap opera

Greg Vaughan reveals he is leaving Days of Our Lives after eight years on the soap opera By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 05:04 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 05:04 BST, 23 July 2020 Just weeks after Kristian Alfonso announced she was leaving the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives, another cast member, … Read more

How TV soap operas such as Coronation Street force images of alcohol on young people 

Children learn to drink at the Rovers Return: How TV soap operas such as Coronation Street force images of alcohol on young people Research found alcohol alcohol was referenced roughly every four minutes Coronation Street had highest alcohol content, shown in more than third of clips Tobacco references were rare and appeared in just four … Read more

Hollyoaks RESUMES filming as bosses confirm the soap WILL go off the air for two months

Hollyoaks RESUMES filming after a four month break sparked by COVID-19 as bosses confirm the soap WILL go off the air for two months Hollyoaks stars including Imran Adams and Nick Pickard returned to the set of the Channel 4 soap this week, with temperature checks and social distancing in place  Bosses confirmed that the final episode … Read more

Corrie’s Todd Grimshaw ‘RETURNING to soap as castings take place to replace Bruno Langley’

Coronation Street’s Todd Grimshaw ‘RETURNING to soap as castings take place to replace disgraced actor Bruno Langley’… after his sexual assault conviction By Eve Buckland For Mailonline Published: 07:49 BST, 13 July 2020 | Updated: 07:53 BST, 13 July 2020 Coronation Street character Todd Grimshaw is ‘set for a return to the cobbles with a … Read more

As the Covid crisis deepened, the nation’s favourite farming soap shut up shop

Until the pandemic came along, The Archers seemed indestructible. Nearly 70 years old, Radio 4’s everyday story of country folk is the world’s longest-running drama, and still draws several million listeners every week. At any rate, it used to. Whether it will have such a large and happy audience when Covid-19 finally departs our shores … Read more

Home and Away star Dee Smart discusses cancer battle during TV interview THREE decades after soap

Former Home and Away star Dee Smart discusses her cancer battle during a surprise TV interview nearly THREE decades after her stint on the soap By Jabeen Waheed For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:21 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 04:24 BST, 3 July 2020 It has been nearly three decades since Dee Smart was … Read more

Neighbours’ icon Annie Jones left soap to care for Alzheimer’s mother

Neighbours’ icon Annie Jones is back as ‘Plain Jane Superbrain’ after putting her career on hold for 20 years to care for her mother who had Alzheimer’s Annie starred as ‘Plain Jane Superbrain’ Harris on Neighbours back in between 1986 and 1989, often referred to as the ‘glory years of the soap’ She starred alongside … Read more

Former Home and Away star Tessa James reveals she would return to the soap

Former Home and Away star Tessa James hints she might return to the soap – as she says she would be open to reprising her role on the show By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:59 BST, 30 June 2020 | Updated: 08:42 BST, 30 June 2020 She played Nicole Franklin on Channel Seven’s … Read more

EastEnders’ June Brown, 93, admits she can’t watch the soap anymore due to her failing eyesight

EastEnders’ June Brown, 93, admits she can’t watch the soap anymore due to her failing eyesight… after quitting her iconic role as Dot Cotton The actress recently quit the soap after playing Dot Cotton for 35 years In June 2017 underwent a controversial eye operation in a desperate attempt to save her sight, but revealed … Read more

Corrie’s Kimberly Hart-Simpson reveals how she went from working as a McDonald’s boss to soap star

‘It was one of the last things he said to me’: Corrie’s Kimberly Hart-Simpson reveals it was her father’s dying wish to star on soap after giving up career as McDonald’s boss By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 01:20 BST, 23 June 2020 | Updated: 01:39 BST, 23 June 2020 She strutted onto the cobbles … Read more