Hollyoaks has confirmed a criminal and sexual exploitation storyline for Frankie Osborne (Isabelle Smith) and Dillon Ray (Nathaniel Dass) as they’re groomed by a criminal gang.
Hollyoaks confirms child exploitation story as Frankie and Dillon are groomed Trigger warning: This article contains discussion of child sexual abuse.
Hollyoaks Executive Producer Hannah Cheers said: ‘It is imperative that Hollyoaks is constantly talking to young people about safeguarding issues and ways in which abuse can infiltrate young lives.
‘Being involved in helping to develop the exploitation storyline with Hollyoaks and using my own lived experience to help form part of their research, provided an opportunity to amplify the voices of survivors that often go unheard,’ she said.
Frankie and Dillon are set to be offered a lifestyle that they perceive to be glamorous but it will soon come to light that they’ve been lured into a world that is very difficult to escape from as they find themselves subjected to criminal and sexual exploitation.
