{"id":393839,"date":"2026-04-23T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:16:12","slug":"hollyoaks-confirms-brutal-scenes-as-leela-confronts-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393839\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks confirms “brutal” scenes as Leela confronts James"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

With Hollyoaks’ Leela Lomax set to find out about her brother Ste Hay’s night of passion with his ex-husband James Nightingale in coming weeks, star Kirsty-Leigh Porter has revealed that her character is set for an epic showdown with James. <\/p>\n

Ste cheated on his fianc\u00e9 Rex Gallagher with his ex-husband James after causing an explosive scene in The Loft nightclub as a response to Rex’s cross-dressing<\/a>. After being arrested, Ste was bailed out by James and old tensions simmered between them. <\/p>\n

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Related: Hollyoaks teases Ste’s love triangle in 17 pictures<\/a> <\/p>\n

During a chat with Inside Soap<\/a>, Kirsty-Leigh has teased how Leela’s disapproving character will react when she finds out about her brother’s latest poor decision\u2026<\/p>\n

“She\u2019s so disappointed in Ste. She can\u2019t stand James for the way he\u2019s broken her brother\u2019s heart, and she\u2019s such a fan of Ste and Rex getting married as she\u2019s been with them both on that journey,” she shared. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a situation that is so typical of Ste to throw Leela in the middle of. But it was such a funny day for the three of us on set, as Leela is so brutal with James. These scenes are what I Iive for!”<\/p>\n

With her on-screen brother juggling two love interests, Kirsty-Leigh teased that she’d like Leela to find romance again, too. <\/p>\n

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Related: Hollyoaks confirms “new era” for Ste amid Leah’s big return<\/a><\/p>\n

The unlucky-in-love character’s marriage to Joel Dexter broke down after he cheated on her with Cleo McQueen, and since an ill-fated fling with Prince McQueen, Leela has been single.<\/p>\n

“Leela needs to meet a rich man who\u2019s going to pay all her bills \u2013 get her out of that flat!” jokes Kirsty-Leigh. “I feel sorry for her because she\u2019s there for everyone, but who is really there for her? She needs someone to come along and show her a bit of happiness.”<\/p>\n

To read the full interview with Kirsty-Leigh, check out the new issue of Inside Soap<\/a> magazine \u2013 out now.<\/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. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale – as Weatherfield\u2019s murder mystery unfolds, and Grant Mitchell returns to Walford! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks spoilers follow. With Hollyoaks’ Leela Lomax set to find out about her brother Ste Hay’s night of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147145,147144,2115,203466,2117,156,2120,2116,111,139,69,203465,148090,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-393839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-inside-soap","9":"tag-collection-latest-news","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-18340a6f-9369-42df-b43a-42feda57f627","12":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-hasproduct-true","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-shorttitle-hollyoaks-confirms-brutal-scenes-as-leela-confronts-james","20":"tag-subsection-hollyoaks","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}