Karen Hassan: Nick Pickard was my Hollyoaks crush!

Karen Hassan: Nick Pickard was my Hollyoaks crush!
Karen Hassan: Nick Pickard was my Hollyoaks crush! (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Hollyoaks star Karen Hassan has revealed that before joining the soap she had a teenage crush on the show's longest serving star, Nick Pickard (Tony Hutchinson). The actress, who plays Lynsey Nolan - the nemesis of serial killer Silas Blissett - made the confession in an interview with Inside Soap magazine. "I used to have a thing for Nick Pickard. He doesn't know, but when I would watch Hollyoaks in my teens, I had such a crush on him," she said. "He's so lovely - he's such a laugh-and-a-half to work with," she added. Karen - who has been in the Channel 4 soap since November 2008 - added that she is not sure what is happening with her Hollyoaks future. "I'd like to stay, but my contract is up this month, so I'm waiting to see what happens then. We all have such a good craic," she said. However she confessed that she has other ambitions - such as showing off her head for business with Lord Alan Sugar. "I'd like to be Lord Sugar's next Apprentice! I watch every series of The Apprentice and think 'I'd be quite good at that!' I've got a pretty good business brain," she added.

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.