Body swap plot for 'Hollyoaks'

[Perdita]

Hollyoaks pub landlord Jack Osborne takes the biggest risk of his life when he fakes his own death to secure his family's financial future.

Jack - played by James McKenna - is forced to take drastic action when his mounting debts become ever more crippling. In an attempt to free his family from ongoing financial pressures, he attempts to take his own life so his family can cash in on his life insurance.

However, when his son Darren (Ashley Taylor Dawson) catches him at his darkest moment, they're forced to search for another way to end their financial misery.

A Hollyoaks source told DS: "Jack's at an all-time low and the finding of a dead body is too good an opportunity for him and Darren to pass up.

"They swap the dead man's identity with Jack's, forcing Jack to slope off into the night. Darren's then left with the formidable task of telling step-mum Frankie (Helen Pearson) of the 'death'.

"As Darren's tangled web of lies continues to grow, he's left in an extremely tricky position when he learns that Kris (Gerard McCarthy) and brother Malachy (Glen Wallace) are searching for their father. It's only then that Darren discovers the true identity of the corpse."

They added: "Will Darren be able to keep his cool, or will he crack under the pressure? It's only when Jack turns up at his own funeral that Darren realises that the situation has truly spiraled out of control."

[Chris_2k11]

This sounds totally far fetched but interesting haha, wonder where they find this dead body

[Bryan]

poor old Frankie. as if she hasn't got enough to contend with atm with charlie, jake and newt.

[Abbie]

This sounds mad!!

[tammyy2j]

Is Jack leaving??????

[StarsOfCCTV]

Mad storyline! Jack turning up at his own funeral...blimey

[LostVoodoo]

this is indeed mental. i do feel so sorry for jack with the amount of problems he's had piled on him, i'm not surprised that he contemplates suicide...

[Pinkbanana]

This sounds mad!!

Well remember in the news about the man from up north who faked his death....went missing in a canoe!!!

[Abbie]

This sounds mad!!

Well remember in the news about the man from up north who faked his death....went missing in a canoe!!!

I dont remember

[Perdita]

Wednesday, 27 February, 2008

A British canoeist who disappeared more than five years ago before reappearing last December says he only came back because he thought his wife was having an affair.

John Darwin, 57, disappeared after taking his canoe into the sea near his home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, in March 2002.

But after he turned up at a London police station in December it has been claimed he had been living next door to his wife and with her in an apartment in Panama City for most of the time.

Darwin, who along with wife Anne is being held in custody on charges of deception, has now confided to a fellow inmate about his reasons for returning.

"People were always asking him why he came back," freed prisoner Stephen Dodds told the Daily Mirror.

"One day while playing pool, he told one of the lads he was unhappy with his wife.

"He was convinced she was seeing another man and was going to leave him without a penny.

"That was the reason for handing himself in after all that time.

"So he decided to come back - which meant she had to give herself up as well."

Darwin initially told police he was suffering from amnesia.

However, a photograph emerged apparently showing Darwin and his wife in Panama with a property agent.

The picture is said to have been taken in July 2006 - more than three years after Hartlepool Coroner Malcolm Donnelly recorded an open verdict on John Darwin's death.


I am sure you will remember now