Hollyoaks star Oscar Curtis has teased a possible next step in the Lucas Hay and Dillon Ray storyline, after several dramatic twists and turns over the last few weeks, while Kieron Richardson has suggested an interesting alternative option.
The former couple have had a rocky time of things from the word go, with Lucas’ internalised homophobia before coming out and being put through conversion therapy. Then Dillon got Lucas’ sister pregnant, was groomed by a human trafficking gang and became addicted to drugs.
They broke up recently when Dillon learned that Lucas has been physically abusing his dad Ste, who Dillon is secretly in love with. Ste initially rejected his advances, but later began a secret fling.
Complicating things even further is that Ste’s on-off boyfriend Rex Gallagher is back on the scene, while James Nightingale is also set to reveal that he’s not as dead as believed, and wants to get back with Ste.
On the latest episode of behind-the-scenes show Hollyoaks Unwrapped, Kieron Richardson asked Oscar if he saw a reunion on the cards for Lucas and Dillon.
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“Hmmm,” he replied after a brief silence. “I think the audience want it and we’d love to do what the audience want, but whatever route the story goes down, that’s up to the writers.
“I think there’s always gonna be a future for Dillon and Lucas, ’cause the partnership was so strong even though they’re always breaking up and there’s always a bit of drama, they always get back together. I dunno.”
Later on in the episode, a brief video clip from Gregory Finnegan teased that Ste will have a choice to make once James is back in the village.
Joking about Ste’s current man predicament, Kieron joked that it’s going to be “quite a busy Christmas in the Hay household”.
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“It’d be quite controversial if Lucas then gets with James,” he suggested.
Is Kieron just having a bit of fun, or is he genuinely teasing the possibility of this storyline? It’s definitely not out of the realms of possibility for Hollyoaks, but could the soap really go there?
Hollyoaks airs on Mondays-Wednesdays with its Channel 4 streaming premiere at 7am, then an E4 broadcast the same night at 7pm. Full episodes are also released on YouTube a week after their Channel 4 release.
Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video.
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