Ashworth family
| Created by | David Hanson |
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| Introduced by | David Hanson |
| Duration | 2005-15 |
| First appearance | 3 October 2005 |
| Last appearance | 16 June 2015 |
The Ashworth family are a fictional family in the long-running Channel 4 soap opera, Hollyoaks. Introduced to the show in 2005, the family derives from Manchester and moved to Hollyoaks village in 2005. The characters have been involved in storylines such as secret siblings, anorexia, drug abuse, incest and paternity issues. With Phoebe McQueen, the deceased Rhys Ashworth's adoptive daughter`s recent murder in June 2015, there are officially no longer any Ashworth family members left in Hollyoaks, besides Darren Osborne, who between 2009 until 2011 was married to Hannah Ashworth; though, their marriage ended in divorce.
The Ashworth family first arrived in 2005, introduced by producer David Hanson. They moved to Hollyoaks village from Manchester with family friend, Gilly Roach (Anthony Quinlan). Nev (Jim Millea) and Suzanne (Suzanne Hall) had fallen in love at a young age and married, however, in 1986, Suzanne fell for Nev's younger brother Noel's (Craig Cheetham) charms and the pair slept together. After this, she gave birth to her first child, Rhys (Andrew Moss). Nev forgave Suzanne and Noel and they decided that Nev would raise the child as his own. In 1988, Noel had an illegitimate daughter, named Beth (Sinéad Moynihan), to a woman named Mary. Noel visited rarely but did stay in contact with his daughter. In 1989, Suzanne became pregnant again, this time it was Nev's, they had a girl named Hannah (Emma Rigby). In 1991, Nev and Suzanne had Josh (Sonny Flood), their final child together. At a young age, Rhys fell into a river and almost drowned, however was saved by Gilly. The pair became best friends and Gilly became one of the family. Also close to the family was Jamie "Fletch" Fletcher (Sam Darbyshire), cousin of Rhys, Hannah and Josh, who was also his best friend. Although it was never fully established how Fletch relates to Nev or Suzanne, it is most likely one of his parents is Suzanne's sibling, given her maiden name of Fletcher.
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