Hollyoaks actress, Anna Shaffer, has revealed that she has faced a public backlash following her part in the recent Esther Bloom bullying storyline currently playing out on our screens.

Fans of the hit show will know how last year, in a desperate bid to be accepted into the ‘cool’ gang at sixth form, Shaffer’s character, Ruby Button turned on her best friend, and sister figure, Esther Bloom (Jazmine Franks) and joined in with the bullying her new best friends Maddie Morrison (Scarlet Bowman) and Sinead O’Connor (Stephanie Davis) inflicted on the poor fashion student.
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With one of the most thought-provoking and delicate storylines Hollyoaks has tackled in recent times about to come to its conclusion, one of the main actresses involved has revealed her part in the conclusion!

Fans of the hit Channel 4 soap will know how Esther Bloom (Jazmine Franks) is currently in hospital after a failed suicide attempt following months of relentless bullying from her supposed friends Ruby Button (Anna Shaffer) and Sinead O’Connor (Stephanie Davis).
Sinead and Ruby took over the insistent torment of Esther from former Queen Bee Maddie Morrison (Scarlet Bowman) after she was killed in the recent Enjoy The Ride wedding day bus crash.

Tortured to breaking point fashion student Esther decided her only option to escape the mental abuse was to take her own life. The suicide bid didn’t work but, as we reported last month, her condition is set to reach critical with only 24 hours to find a liver replacement before Esther dies.
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It is the moment that all Hollyoaks fans have been waiting for, when Ruby Button is finally exposed as being the horrendous bully that drove poor Esther Bloom to try and end her own life!

Fans of the award-winning Channel 4 soap will know how, after Maddie Morrison (Scarlet Bowman) died during the epic Enjoy The Ride wedding day bus crash last year, the other two members of her coven, Sinead O’Connor (Stephanie Davis) and Ruby Button (Anna Schafer), took over the relentless harassment and bullying of Esther Bloom (Jazmine Franks).

After nearly a year of torment, desperate Esther finally decided enough was enough and last week viewers looked on in horror as the teenager took an overdose in a bid to end her suffering once and for all.
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Hollyoaks’s Esther Bloom is set to be left wracked with guilt after an argument with her step-grandfather, Jack Osbourne, results in him collapsing!

To make matters worse, the youngster leaves before it happens, and it is hours before anyone finds the landlord of the Dog in the Pond, making his health situation critical, according to the Daily Star newspaper.

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So last night saw the grand re-opening of the Dog in the Pond on Hollyoaks, and what a re-opening it was!

Fans of the show will know that Riley commissioned the pub refurb in order to erase the last dark memories of Silas from everyone’s minds, so for the best part of a month we have been waiting for the new look Dog!
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