Hollyoaks has announced a star opera meeting when Denise Welch joins the cast.
Denise will play Nikki Sanderson’s on-screen mother, Trish Minniver, in the opera Channel Four.
Denise and Nikki once worked together on Coronation Street when they played Natalie Barnes and Candice Stowe.
Nikki, 36, of Bury, played hairdresser Candice from 1999 to 2005 and now plays Hollyoak’s favorite Maxine Minniver.
Denise, 62, who played former Rovers return Natalie owner from 1997 to 2000, already has an appointment with Hollyoaks.
In the past she appeared with Chelsee Healey, who plays Goldie McQueen in the Rochdale school drama Waterloo Road and is a loose panelist alongside Kelle Bryan who plays Martine Deveraux in the soap opera.
A professional dance instructor, her character arrives in Hollyoaks under the ominous shadow of her boyfriend Brad, who makes Maxine shine, leaving the audience wondering if she will open a gap between mother and daughter.
Speaking about her new role, Denise said: “I am very happy to be joining the cast of Hollyoaks in this 25th year.
“I look forward to running with old friends and making new ones. Trish Minniver’s character is an actor’s dream and I can’t wait to introduce him. “
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In addition to Corrie and Waterloo Road, Denise played a role as Soldier Soldier, the groundbreaking BBC boy meets girl drama, which followed the love story of a transgender and a cisgender man, and Benidorm.
In 2016, she played Alison Slater, Kyle Slater’s separated mother, in EastEnders.
And she has been a panelist on the CAT ITV Loose Women screen for over 18 years.
Trish will appear on screen for the first time in January 2021 with the great impact of Maxine, who since reaching Hollyoaks in 2012 and said goodbye to his sister, Mitzeee (played through Rachel Shenton), has fought many battles without his rapid circle of relatives around him, adding domestic violence to the component of his abusive patrick Blake , worried about her abusive ex after being diagnosed with a motor neuron disease and burying Patrick’s body on the city walls after being killed through her granddaughter Nico.
He also ruined many of his friendships and relationships when he developed Munchausen syndrome, explained through the NHS online page as “a mental disorder in which he claims to be in poor health or intentionally produces symptoms of disease in itself. “