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Old 11-06-2008, 14:04
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Apologies if there are threads on this, couldn't see anything.

What the Hell has happened to Cindy? I seem to remember her being a very serious teenager and when she left she was on the run. But now she has returned as some camp pantomime overacted 'boo hiss' baddie. Ok, I realise her being upset and frightened is supposed to be an act, but it is so bad it is unbelievable Max would fall for it.

Seems another HO character has had a complete personality transplant
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Old 11-06-2008, 14:06
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i'm hoping shes only going to be like this for a while. i didnt see the original cindy from what i remember.

i think shes meant to be 'overacting' cos of the situation she wants to be in or something
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Old 11-06-2008, 14:57
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i think shes meant to be 'overacting' cos of the situation she wants to be in or something
Yes but her overacting is so unbelievable that someone should be able to tell she is lying
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Old 11-06-2008, 15:04
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I said exactly the same thing in the other thread! They've only brought Cindy back to add some long-term history to the show after Max leaves, but what is the point when she is effectively a different character? It seems to me like they couldn't tempt Davinia Taylopr back as Jude, so the HO story team thought they'd change Cindy into a bitch. Lazy storylining
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Old 11-06-2008, 15:04
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Yes but her overacting is so unbelievable that someone should be able to tell she is lying
yeah i was thinking the same thing. surely Max could tell that she was lying... :S
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Old 11-06-2008, 15:06
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I preferred old Cindy personality
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Old 11-06-2008, 15:11
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She looked like she could be friends with Val, they could freeload together
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Old 11-06-2008, 15:12
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She looked like she could be friends with Val, they could freeload together
or sleep together, hopefully.

whoa, that wasn't subtle.
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Old 11-06-2008, 15:34
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i thought when she came back she was a little bit like her old self. Having watched H/O from the start, there were definatly times where she was a diva.
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Old 11-06-2008, 18:07
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t seems to me like they couldn't tempt Davinia Taylopr back as Jude, so the HO story team thought they'd change Cindy into a bitch. Lazy storylining
Did they really try to get Jude back? I wish they had succeeded, Jude was great. I might have even started watching again.
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Old 11-06-2008, 19:57
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Did they really try to get Jude back? I wish they had succeeded, Jude was great. I might have even started watching again.
I'm not sure if they definately tried to tempt her back, but it seems that nu-Cindy is a faux imitation of Jude'c character ...
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Old 11-06-2008, 20:01
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Apologies if there are threads on this, couldn't see anything.

What the Hell has happened to Cindy? I seem to remember her being a very serious teenager and when she left she was on the run. But now she has returned as some camp pantomime overacted 'boo hiss' baddie. Ok, I realise her being upset and frightened is supposed to be an act, but it is so bad it is unbelievable Max would fall for it.

Seems another HO character has had a complete personality transplant
Exactly what I thought. They might just as well have recast the role, but Hollyoaks is known for being a soft-touch to actors who leave because they think they could do better, then fail to get any other work and go running back to Hollyoaks.
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Old 11-06-2008, 20:03
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Apologies if there are threads on this, couldn't see anything.

What the Hell has happened to Cindy? I seem to remember her being a very serious teenager and when she left she was on the run. But now she has returned as some camp pantomime overacted 'boo hiss' baddie. Ok, I realise her being upset and frightened is supposed to be an act, but it is so bad it is unbelievable Max would fall for it.

Seems another HO character has had a complete personality transplant
I'm so glad someone else has said this cos it's what I've been thinking since her return. Wonder if Mandy will have had a personality transplant too.
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Old 11-06-2008, 20:05
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I'm so glad someone else has said this cos it's what I've been thinking since her return. Wonder if Mandy will have had a personality transplant too.
god i hope not!!! i cant wait for mandy to come back
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Old 11-06-2008, 20:26
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I'm not sure if they definately tried to tempt her back, but it seems that nu-Cindy is a faux imitation of Jude'c character ...
From what I believe she was lined up to return sometime in the recent past but fell pregnant so pulled out.

The comparison between the new Cindy and Jude is bang on, although Cindy has been living with her in Spain for the past few years hasn't she?! So it's probably quite right that she's inherited some of her sister's traits.

Was quite surprised by her attitude towards Mandy, the girls were once close friends. I remember the love triangle with Sol fondly.
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Old 11-06-2008, 20:34
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she's totally horrid and i hope that she gets seen for what she really is soon

poor max
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Old 12-06-2008, 01:35
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Actually when Cindy last came back in 04 she was a complete bitch cant people remember her trying to make Max sell drive and buy and the flats so if anything there hasnt been a personality transplant shes just got worse.
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Old 12-06-2008, 11:32
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I said exactly the same thing in the other thread! They've only brought Cindy back to add some long-term history to the show after Max leaves, but what is the point when she is effectively a different character? It seems to me like they couldn't tempt Davinia Taylopr back as Jude, so the HO story team thought they'd change Cindy into a bitch. Lazy storylining
Totally. Its funny too that Clare was re-cast and turned into a bitch after Davina Taylor pulled out of returning as Jude. I think a lot of the Clare storyline was intended for Jude. Now Cindy has been morphed into Jude.

Posted by friggy98 - "Actually when Cindy last came back in 04 she was a complete bitch cant people remember her trying to make Max sell drive and buy and the flats so if anything there hasnt been a personality transplant shes just got worse. "

I remember that, but she wasn't the camp panto villain she is now. She seems to have forgotten how to act.
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Old 12-06-2008, 12:24
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Sorry for going off topic a bit, but since we are talking about Jude, does anybody know if there are any old episodes online anywhere from the days of Jude, Lucy, Kurt, Jambo, Rob etc? To me that is the REAL hollyoaks before it got all big budget-y and rubbish.
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Old 12-06-2008, 12:27
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There used to be an old episode from 1995 with Tony walking down the street ... not sure where it is. This is also moving a bit off topic, but with Cindy and Mandy coming back, which other characters from the early days would feasibly make a return? I'd love to see Lucy Benson come back ... but hopefully not as a Jude pastiche like all the rest!
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Old 12-06-2008, 14:25
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There used to be an old episode from 1995 with Tony walking down the street ... not sure where it is. This is also moving a bit off topic, but with Cindy and Mandy coming back, which other characters from the early days would feasibly make a return? I'd love to see Lucy Benson come back ... but hopefully not as a Jude pastiche like all the rest!
Funny you should mention Lucy, I was just thinking yesterday that Fletch going cold turkey was reminscent of her own detox.

The Ashworth's home was the Benson house originally wasn't it?

I always found Lucy irritating but I wouldn't be against her returning but I find it difficult to see where she would fit in. Cindy and Mandy are both young (mid-20s) to feasibly be part of the cast but Lucy is closer to Tony in age.
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Old 12-06-2008, 15:41
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A lot of long running characters that return to a soap after a few years away tend to be caricatures of their former selves. Liz Mc Donald and Bet in Corrie, Nicola in Emmerdale and even as far back as Bev in Brookie (after returning rich having inherited money or won the lotto or something). I saw a bit of Hollyoaks last night and I have to agree that the actress who plays Cindy seems to be hamming it up big time.
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Old 12-06-2008, 15:44
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I usually give characters a time to settle..but She NEEDS to go. As does Rafi actually. Hollyoaks deserve better than these.
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Old 12-06-2008, 20:46
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Funny you should mention Lucy, I was just thinking yesterday that Fletch going cold turkey was reminscent of her own detox.

The Ashworth's home was the Benson house originally wasn't it?

I always found Lucy irritating but I wouldn't be against her returning but I find it difficult to see where she would fit in. Cindy and Mandy are both young (mid-20s) to feasibly be part of the cast but Lucy is closer to Tony in age.
I'd completely forgotten that the Ashworths was where the Bensons lived, who lived in it between the Bensons and the Hunters? Was it the Morgans?

Didn't the actress who played Lucy not speak favourably about her time there, or it might have just been she found the heroin storyline hard? The actress hasn't done much, has she?, since Where the Heart is, I mean.
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Old 12-06-2008, 20:50
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A lot of long running characters that return to a soap after a few years away tend to be caricatures of their former selves. Liz Mc Donald and Bet in Corrie, Nicola in Emmerdale and even as far back as Bev in Brookie (after returning rich having inherited money or won the lotto or something). I saw a bit of Hollyoaks last night and I have to agree that the actress who plays Cindy seems to be hamming it up big time.
I agree, I wasn't that a big a fan of Cindy when she was in it, although I thought the pregnancy storyline she had, was excellent and really moving. From her rejecting Stan, the car crash and the deaths of Ollie and Stan, her trying to cause a miscarriage right up to giving birth to Holly. I found in particularly the scene where she rejected Stan, really upsetting, but then I was in my early teens and highly emotional!
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