Nancy Hayton | |||||||||||||||
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Hollyoaks character | |||||||||||||||
Portrayed by | Jessica Fox | ||||||||||||||
Duration | 2005– | ||||||||||||||
First appearance | 6 July 2005 | ||||||||||||||
Introduced by | David Hanson | ||||||||||||||
Book appearances | Hollyoaks: Playing With Fire (2006) | ||||||||||||||
Spin-off appearances |
Hollyoaks Later (2008, 2010, 2012) Hollyoaks: A Little Film About Love (2011) |
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Classification | Present; regular | ||||||||||||||
Profile | |||||||||||||||
Occupation | Deputy Headteacher (2015−) | ||||||||||||||
Home | |||||||||||||||
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Family | Osborne |
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Father | Charles Hayton |
Mother | Margaret Hayton |
Sisters | Becca Dean |
Husband |
Jake Dean (2008) Darren Osborne (2012–14, 2014–15) |
Sons | Oscar Osborne |
Nephews | Charlie Dean |
Nancy Anne Osborne (also Hayton) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Jessica Fox. The character first appeared on 6 July 2005. Since the character's inception she has been involved in many notable storylines such as: a love triangle; coping with the death of her eldest sister Becca (Ali Bastian); marrying Jake Dean (Kevin Sacre); drug abuse; domestic violence; being the victim of two attempted rapes by Jake and Finn O'Connor (Keith Rice); marrying Darren Osborne (Ashley Taylor Dawson); prematurely giving birth to Darren's son Oscar Osborne who is deaf; an addiction to painkillers; a highly publiscised storyline where Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) attempts to steal Darren and her family away from her; Sienna seriously attacking her which gives her brain damage; her affair with Rick Spencer (Victor Gardener); a fling with Rick's son Robbie Roscoe (Charlie Wernham); discovering Darren and Maxine Minniver (Nikki Sanderson) buried Partick Blake's (Jeremy Sheffield) body in village wall and helping cover their tracks; and accidentally running over her friend and colleague John Paul McQueen (James Sutton) resulting in his blindness. Nancy discovered she was pregnant with her boyfriend, Darren's, child but she later miscarried. Her latest storyline has seen the character be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In the character's early stages, she was portrayed as a less conventional character compared to the rest of the Hollyoaks teenagers.