Hollyoaks newcomer Sophie Porley has revealed that her character Ellie Nightingale will be dishing out put-downs when she arrives in the village next month.
Ellie is one of six new arrivals who'll be causing a stir in the village when local pub The Dog In The Pond comes under new ownership in late October.
Sophie Porley as Ellie Nightingale in Hollyoaks
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Sophie Porley as Ellie Nightingale
Former Brookside and Family Affairs star David Easter will be heading up the new family in his role as Mac Nightingale, who has already been introduced as Cindy Cunningham's secret husband. Ellie is Mac's daughter and is spoiled rotten by the pub boss.
Speaking to Digital Spy about her role, Porley revealed: "When Ellie arrives in the village she thinks, 'Oh great, what is this place? Who are you people?' She thinks that everything is quaint compared to her old life in Brighton and she doesn't care about anyone in the village. She loves her brothers and her dad, but that's it.
"Ellie rubs people up the wrong way from day one. She's so rude but also quite funny, so I think the audience are going to like her. I think she's going to be a bit of a bitch, but a funny one who people will hopefully warm to.
"I do get my lines and think, 'I can't say that!' It's really fun, so I enjoy playing those scenes. Ellie's first row is with Cindy and she even asks if she's going through the menopause! That was the first scene that I filmed! At that point, Ellie doesn't know that Cindy is her dad's secret wife - she has no idea about that."
Amrit Maghera and Sophie Porley as Neeta Kaur and Ellie Nightingale in Hollyoaks
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Neeta Kaur and Ellie Nightingale
Ellie will also quickly show her ruthless side when she tries to sabotage Mac's current relationship with his much younger partner Neeta Kaur (Amrit Maghera).
Mac arrives in the village without Neeta, so Ellie hatches a cunning plan to stop her from following them to Hollyoaks.
"Ellie's really not happy about this relationship," Porley explained. "She sees the move to Hollyoaks as a good excuse to get her father away from Neeta. When they arrive in the village, Ellie steals Mac's phone and sends Neeta texts telling her not to come. But then she turns up anyway!
"Ellie does everything to try and sabotage his relationship. She doesn't have a love interest of her own yet, as so far nobody's really taken her fancy. Ellie is just horrible to everyone, but I'm sure at some point there will be a love interest. At the moment she's just focused on ruining everybody else's love life, but I'm sure she'll be ruining her own eventually!"
Porley originally came to prominence as a model but quickly discovered a passion for acting. Hollyoaks is her first regular TV role.
"I started off as a Storm model but I never thought about doing modelling myself," she said. "Someone approached me so I went along with it and it was from modelling that I discovered that I really liked acting. When I did TV commercials and that kind of thing, I realised that it was on-camera things that I enjoyed. So I started training on evenings and weekends and then it snowballed from there. A lot of people believed in me and now I'm on Hollyoaks. It was a lot of years in the making but it was all worth it."
Hollyoaks introduces the Nightingale family on Monday, October 26 at 6.30pm on Channel 4.