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If Brookside had still been around today..
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Who do you think would still be there? I think Jimmy definitely. Jacqui, Max, and maybe Bev, Rachel and Mike. I think Ron would have left by now.
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What happened to Jackie Corkhill, did she leave before the end?
bib: I always found her to be an arrogant cow, particularly as she became more successful in business.
I cheered when she got (temporarily) blinded by Leanne.:D
Jackie Corkhill left a couple of years before the end. I'd say she would have come back at some point though. If it had continued, I'd say we might have seen a few more crossovers between it and Hollyoaks. I'd also imagine that we would have seen a few of the more recognisable actors from the Family Affairs cast showing up after it sank in 2005.
I still miss Brookie. It was the only soap I ever really got involved with.
I think the eldest Gordon daughter (Ruth was it?) would have maybe stayed on with her son Luke and her fella (Barry Sloane who later played Niall in Hollyoaks)
I would imagine Max and Jaqui too, oh and Nisha, Katie and that Dr Parr? (Ben Hull) ... I'd also add Sammy Rogers as sticking around even as a semi regular ...loved Sammy ...
The Hollyoaks crossovers is a strange one, for the first few weeks Hollyoaks was on the air references to it Being a new show were clumsily dropped into the Brookside script, so at so it was established that Hollyoaks was a fictional TV show within the brookside universe. Then a few years Later Matt Musgrove turned up in Hollyoaks changing the original continuity. Of course a character of the same name played by the same actor with a very similar back story and character traits to Matt Musgrove in Brookside could have been purely coincidental.
Max Farnham left during the final few months of Brookside. Like many characters at that time, he wasn't given an exit but just no longer featured on screen. He was always 'away on business' or similar excuses.
If Nisha had stayed then she most likely wouldn't have played Zoe Hanna on Casualty. We so often see characters from Brookside turn up in Casualty and Holby City now.
I don't think Bobby Grant would have returned. Ricky Tomlinson had a very acrimonious split with the show and was still very bitter about Brookie in subsequent interviews.
Sheila might have returned at some stage in a guest stint for a episode or two (she made one or two appearances in one or two VHS Brookie spin-offs) but given Sue Johnston's very successful subsequent acting career, I don't think it would have been a long return.
Barry's sisters Karen and Claire might have re-appeared both (especially baby Claire) probably recast.
Mick Johnson and/or Sinbad could have returned.
Jimmy would still be there
The final scene featured Jimmy, and Nikki was the last woman we saw in Brookside Close. We may have seen Lindsay having moved away with Jimmy, but that was away from Brookside Close.
Just a thought: It would be great to see Suzanne Collins join Hollyoaks as a friend of Diane's! ;-):)
Apart from the gorgeous one. Kirsty I think her name was