Hollyoaks star lands HUGE role in Netflix drama alongside A-list stars 3 years after quitting as soap villain

HOLLYOAKS star Callum Kerr has landed a role in the popular Netflix drama Virgin River, just three years after the soap. 

Callum, 30, will play the younger version of Mel’s (Alexandra Breckenridge) father Everett Reid, currently portrayed by John Allen Nelson. 

Following on from Mel discovering and meeting her birth father in series 5 of Virgin River, Callum will appear in a series of flashbacks to tell the story of how the character met her mother Sarah (Jessica Rothe). 

Callum rose to fame playing P.C. George Kiss on the Channel 4 soap between 2020 and 2021.

During his time on Hollyoaks, his alter-ego George dated John Paul McQueen and would be violent and manipulative towards him.

The McQueen family eventually exposed what was going on and George tried to flee the village.

However, things took a sinister turn when John Paul’s mum Sally St. Claire killed him by hitting him on the head with a bookend.

Since leaving the soap, Callum starred in a number of other notable roles, including playing Wade Stellings in the Fox series Monarch and sharing the screen with Bridgerton darling Hannah Dodd in Flowers in the Attic. 

He’s also set to portray Smoker in the Netflix series One Piece.

The former soap villain has also ditched the U.K. and moved across the pond to Nashville in the U.S. where he works as an actor and a country singer.

In his latest role as Everett “Champ” Reid, Callum will star opposite actor Jessica Rothe in a series of flashbacks that tells the story of how he and Sarah met and fell in love. 

Virgin River is no stranger to using flashbacks to reveal the truth about a character’s past - Mel’s dead husband Mark (Daniel Gillies) appears exclusively in flashbacks, after all. However, these scenes will venture further into the past.