{"id":230751,"date":"2026-01-10T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:48:12","slug":"hollyoaks-star-breaks-silence-on-tinheads-return-after-brookside-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230751\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks star breaks silence on Tinhead’s return after Brookside crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollyoaks<\/a> spoilers follow.<\/p>\n

Philip Olivier is best known for his iconic role as Tim \u2018Tinhead\u2019 O\u2019Leary in Brookside, a role which he reprised for the much-anticipated crossover episode<\/a> for Hollyoaks\u2019 30th anniversary week back in October. But now Tinhead is joining Hollyoaks<\/a>, and he\u2019s got some big secrets\u2026<\/p>\n

In next week\u2019s episodes, Liberty is on top of the world after going on a first date, and her mystery man is revealed to be none other than Tinhead. Philip told us at Inside Soap<\/a> in an exclusive chat what it was like taking Tinhead from one iconic soap to another.<\/p>\n

“It was weird at first, because the building where Hollyoaks films, that\u2019s where Brookside had the parade of shops,” he explained.<\/p>\n

“That was nice and nostalgic, but I was really nervous at first, just because it\u2019s so fast-paced. It\u2019s a lot faster than what we used to do back in the day, but after about a week, I felt at home!”<\/p>\n

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Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n

While Liberty is enjoying her new romance, Tinhead may have an ulterior motive<\/a> for turning up in the village, as viewers later spot him fleeing in his van from Jez\u2019s allotment after looking in the late villain\u2019s shed.<\/p>\n

Sienna is suspicious of Tinhead from the outset and as the storyline unfolds, she tries to convince Liberty that her new man is seriously bad news.<\/p>\n

But it seems that Sienna is right to be suspicious about Tinhead, as Hollyoaks\u2019 New Year trailer<\/a> shows fellow newcomer Jenson confronting him for using Warren\u2019s identity!<\/p>\n

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Related: Hollyoaks’ Ste Hay finally finds out husband James Nightingale is alive<\/a><\/p>\n

Just what Tinhead is up to is yet to be revealed, but how does Philip think his character has changed \u2013 or stayed the same \u2013 since his Brookside days?<\/p>\n

“He has matured \u2013 he was a criminal, he was a bad lad, but his motives were always right,\u201d he told us.<\/p>\n

“His heart was in the right place and it\u2019s exactly the same at the moment. Don\u2019t get me wrong, he shouldn\u2019t be doing a few things, but he\u2019s doing them for the right purpose. He\u2019s a loveable rogue!”<\/p>\n

To read our full chat with Philip about what\u2019s next for Tinhead\u2019s time in the village, pick up the latest issue of Inside Soap<\/a>, available to buy from Tuesday, 13 January.<\/p>\n

Hollyoaks airs on Mondays-Wednesdays with its Channel 4 streaming<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Hollyoaks spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. This week’s episode<\/a> reacts to the biggest twists from the Corriedale crossover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks spoilers follow. Philip Olivier is best known for his iconic role as Tim \u2018Tinhead\u2019 O\u2019Leary in Brookside,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[635,125519,637,146,1345,85,46,636,125518,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-230751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-dcb7ef42-0fbb-4073-9319-5f96a031bfaa","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hasproduct-true","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-shorttitle-hollyoaks-star-breaks-silence-on-tinheads-return","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}