Davinia Taylor reveals she’s coming back to Hollyoaks AGAIN in 2017
The actress announced she'd be going back to the Channel 4 soap on This Morning
DAVINIA Taylor has confirmed she’ll be returning to Hollyoaks after she reprised her role this Autumn.
Talking to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning, the former wild child admitted she was in talks with producers about what was coming up for her next year.
She said: “Brian the producer, he thought so much of the character and he said I could come back next summer!
“We’ll see what storlines are like but it’s something I’d definitely consider .”
The hedonistic antics of the Primrose Hill set, named after the upmarket area of north London where its A-list celeb members lived, made headlines throughout the 1990s.
Kate Moss, Sadie Frost and Meg Matthews were key players, alongside Davinia, who was rarely pictured without a glass of wine in hand.
The multimillionaire heiress to a toilet-paper empire, she shot to fame playing bad girl Jude Cunningham in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.
Off-screen, Davinia’s life was wilder than any scriptwriter’s storyline.
Drink-fuelled nights and 24-hour parties at Meg and Noel Gallagher’s house, SupernovaHeights, became the stuff of legend – and Davinia was at the heart of it.
In July 2003, she married football agent Dave Gardner at a £875,000 knees-up, with David Beckham as best man and wife Victoria and son Brooklyn among the A-list guests.
But seven years later, the champagne bubbles well and truly burst and Davinia’s world came crashing down as her marriage to Dave ended amid accusations of “unreasonable behaviour” on her part.
Davinia flew to South Africa, where she spent six months in rehab being treated for alcohol addiction.
Worse was to come when her ex was given custody of their son Gray, now nine, after a bitter court battle.
There was even a failed suicide attempt.
She later described what happened, saying: “I slit my wrists and sat in the bath and no one came.”
Today, though, it couldn’t be more different for the former party girl and she’s been sober for over six years.
While Kate Moss continues to party hard, Davinia’s life revolves around the school run and herbal tea dates with a small group of friends in west London.
She’s also found love again with builder Matthew Leyden, 36.
The pair have two children together, Asa, two, and Jude, seven months (Davinia also has a son, Lux, five, but has never identified his father).
Now, the actress has reprised her iconic Hollyoaks role and is a firm favourite with viewers.
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