Hollyoaks legend Ross Adams has announced he’s flying into the UK to film his final scenes.
The actor, who first began playing Scott Drinkwell in the Channel 4 soap in 2014, announced to us in March that he’d be departing later in the year.
Ross used the announcement that the show would be reducing its broadcast pattern as a sign to move on, and it’s understood that he is not one of the reported 20 cast members who will depart this autumn during a UK soap first time jump, that will see Oaks’ action skyrocket one year into the future.
He told us that producers Lime Pictures did offer him a contract extension: ‘They [Hollyoaks] were kind enough to offer me another contract, but last year I did a documentary about adoption and I really enjoyed doing that.
‘It was a bit of an opportunity for me to do a bit of presenting which is something I’ve always been keen to do, but also to do something as me.
‘Many people know Scott as a character but not many people know Ross. That documentary gave me a bit of a taste for it.
After playing Scott for so long, you do get comfortable. I’d have happily stayed there forever but I think sometimes you have to push yourself.’
He continued: ‘If I’m 100% honest, with the news that we got recently about us going down to 3 episodes, it felt like maybe it was the push I needed to start and think about something else.
‘I am terrified, I really am, but it was one of those moments where I thought “it’s now or never” so I’m going to give it a try.’
Since then, he’s signed on the dotted line to appear in the next series of Channel 5 drama The Good Ship Murder.
Starring alongside Coronation Street actors Catherine Tyldsley, Shayne Ward and Claire Sweeney, the show has recently been recommissioned for a further two series and a Christmas special.
Taking to X/Twitter this morning (29th May), Ross shared a video of him jetting back into the UK, captioning it: ‘Been away filming in Malta but back on home soil now ready to shoot my last ever scene on @Hollyoaks this Friday.’
As the show films roughly 6 to 8 weeks in advance, it could be a while before we see these scenes play out, and it hasn’t been confirmed just how Scott will depart the Chester village.
He’s recently taken in youngster Freya Calder (Ellie Henry) after her dad Carter Shepherd (David Ames) was sent to prison for attempting to abduct Lucas Hay (Oscar Curtis) and for bundling John Paul McQueen (James Sutton) into a van and forcing him to be ‘baptised’ at a lake.
