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. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video ‘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.
