Kai Owen
has joined the cast of Hollyoaks - Channel 4's teen soap.
In a tweet
this afternoon Kai told his fans 'It's true!
I've joined the lovely cast of #Hollyoaks and it’s brilliant. Got one
hell of an important story to tell.'
Kai plays
abuser Pete, a terrible man who sexually assaulted Porsche McQueen (Twinnie-Lee
Moore) when she was 15. His character is
an ex boyfriend of Porsche's mother, Reenie, who is currently behind bars.
Pete comes
over as a really nice guy, which many abusers do to those on the outside, but
he's anything but a nice character to Porsche.
Owen told
Digital Spy. "Pete is a challenging role to take on. I'm honoured to be a part of this storyline
and to be able to work with the NSPCC to raise awareness of child abuse to the
Hollyoaks audience."
It's not
the first time that Hollyoaks have tackled difficult issues on their soap, from
transgender to murder by Silas (oh how we enjoyed that storyline), or the
crazed manipulative Will, who thankfully got locked away, in fact the thing I
love about Channel 4 and Hollyoaks is that they do tackle a lot of quite
difficult issues and very sensitively.
Will Pete
outlast all other villains in the soap, only time will tell, but as ever, we're
so happy to see Kai Owen back on our screens.
To read
more about the story, visit http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s13/hollyoaks/news/a640816/hollyoaks-casts-torchwood-star-kai-owen-as-abuser-pete.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=dsuk&utm_campaign=twdsuk#~p9t7B4O2bIPJEd
Resources
Kai Owen’s
twitter
Digital Spy
BBC
Torchwood
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