Hollyoaks' Rob: The ladies love 'Silas'

Hollyoaks' Rob: The ladies love 'Silas'
Hollyoaks' Rob: The ladies love 'Silas'

Rob Norbury has revealed his Hollyoaks co-star Jeff Rawle, who plays villain Silas Blissett, is competing with him in the heartthrob stakes. Rob - who plays hunky footballer Riley Costello in the soap - recently took on-screen granddad Silas out clubbing and was stunned at the attention the older actor received. "He came out for a night out with us in Liverpool and he got mobbed, I was getting a bit jealous. All these hot blondes were coming up to him, I was like, 'I'm not happy here'," he said. "He's a bit of a pin-up, forget all those Dirty Dens and all that." Rob, who received a nod for sexiest male in the Inside Soap Awards 2011, joked: "He'll be up for a sexiest male nomination. He can have my longlist nomination because I won't be getting on it, you can put Jeff Rawle up. I think he'll win it." Despite Jeff's murderous alter ego, Rob said the 60-year-old - who has also made appearances in Spooks, The Bill, and Doctor Who - was "a gentleman". He added: "He's amazing. He can just talk for hours about the people he knows and the things he's done and you just want to listen, all day."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.