Hollyoaks star Jessamy Stoddart addresses Liberty's exit from soap

Hollyoaks star Jessamy Stoddart has addressed Liberty Savage's (temporary) exit.

Scenes that aired this week on the Channel 4 soap saw Liberty jet off to New Zealand to start a new job, with the real-life reason for the departure being that Stoddart has gone on maternity leave.

The actress shared some photos of herself around the set showing off her baby bump, writing: "Byeeeeeeeee. Lib is off to do her dream job in NZ so that I can live out my dreams right here.

"TTFN @hollyoaksofficial I’ll miss you but I’ll see you next year."

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Stoddart's fellow cast member Jacob Roberts has called for Damon to get some new friends in Liberty's absence.

"Rory [Douglas-Speed, who plays Joel] is a good laugh. I'd like to work with him more," he explained. "Joel could even make a good replacement for Brody. Sienna and Damon have a lot of history as well, although they're always arguing. I really want to work with someone totally who no-one would expect!"

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Speaking of Down Under, Owen Warner ended up filming scenes in Australia right after he finished as runner-up on this year's series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, although it was for a FaceTime call (Romeo is currently in Spain) rather than on-location shooting.

You can keep track of all the festive Hollyoaks schedule changes right here, or watch all of them via All4 from today.

Hollyoaks streams first on All 4, with new episodes dropping each weekday morning. The show airs Mondays to Fridays at 6.30pm on Channel 4, and at 7pm on E4.

Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video.