I will miss Hollyoaks, admits Beth Kingston

I will miss Hollyoaks, admits Beth Kingston
I will miss Hollyoaks, admits Beth Kingston (Image credit: Lime Pictures)

Hollyoaks star Beth Kingston has revealed she will miss the show - but is happy to leave before she becomes typecast. The actress joined the cast last year as India Longford after winning a competition run by the show - but is due to bow out in a dramatic storyline involving a man she meets on a dating website. "I will miss it definitely," Beth said. I've had the best year and a half. When I first started, I thought a year and a half would be the perfect amount of time to be in soap. "You get the experience but it's not long enough to get typecast as that one character. I'm just excited about the future now." She added that she was also pleased to be involved in a storyline that warned people about the perils of online dating. "I found it exciting doing such a big storyline which obviously has so much relevance to today, it's a very topical subject," the actress said. "It's a really big danger. Maybe at Christmas people who are feeling alone might be more inclined to go on them but you've got to be so so careful." Beth - who has been in a relationship for five years - admitted she had never tried online dating herself, but said, "I know a few people that have and it's been successful so you don't want to scare people completely but it's just about being cautious."

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.