{"id":410363,"date":"2026-02-06T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410363\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:22:09","slug":"hollyoaks-confirms-donnys-big-career-change-with-nostalgic-brookside-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410363\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks confirms Donny\u2019s big career change with nostalgic Brookside connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollyoaks<\/a> has revealed Donny Clark’s<\/a> new career after he dramatically resigned from the police force.<\/p>\n

Frustrated with corruption in the force and following his traumatic ordeal with Froggy Black<\/a>, Donny stepped down from his position.<\/p>\n

Donny’s true identity was previously revealed to be Mick Johnson<\/a>, a character in Brookside, who has been in witness protection for 20 years after having an affair with Froggy’s wife.<\/p>\n

Froggy resurfaced and began blackmailing Donny<\/a>, forcing him to destroy evidence of his and Clare Devine’s trafficking ring.<\/p>\n

While involved with the gang, Donny revealed he had been a victim of sexual assault<\/a> following an attack that also involved Dodger Savage<\/a> after being targeted by Froggy’s son Sully<\/a> and Griff Farnedge.<\/p>\n

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In the aftermath, Donny killed Griff<\/a> and, with the help of Warren Fox, disposed of the body, since bottling up his trauma.<\/p>\n

Donny recently reconnected with his hidden past in Brookside after it was revealed he used to own a pizza business and, a few weeks ago, made pizza for a couple of his old friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it seems he could be back flipping dough in the near future after Dillon Ray comes to him with a business proposition.<\/p>\n

After receiving a portion of Grace Black’s inheritance from Rex Gallagher<\/a>, Dillon offers to go into business with Donny to get Mick’s Pizza going again.<\/p>\n

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Related: Hollyoaks’ Donny to face tough questions from Misbah as pressure mounts<\/a><\/p>\n

But Dillon begins to worry about how Misbah Maalik<\/a> will react to the news following her and Donny’s recent breakup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their relationship had already been strained due to the revelation of his secret past and his obsession with tracking down infamous criminal Blue.<\/p>\n

When Misbah found out that Donny had continued to lie to her and had almost slept with a sex worker<\/a>, she called time on their romance. <\/p>\n

So how will she react to her nephew working with her former flame?<\/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, from Robert\u2019s feud with Joe in Emmerdale, to Carl\u2019s dangerous new plan in Coronation Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks has revealed Donny Clark’s new career after he dramatically resigned from the police force. Frustrated with corruption…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147950,379,152362,381,96,2788,1156,152361,148053,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-410363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-bf3c5d6f-29ce-4715-be6e-bab3f66bebd0","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-hasproduct-true","14":"tag-locale-gb","15":"tag-shorttitle-hollyoaks-confirms-donnys-big-career-change","16":"tag-subsection-hollyoaks","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}