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One of Hollyoaks‘ most stunning sirens has ditched soaps for a career in fine art – 12 years after her memorable role.
Best known for her role as bully Maddie Morrison, Scarlett Bowman departed the soap in 2012 when her character was brutally killed in a car crash.
Despite being one of the soap’s biggest villains, Scarlett praised Maddie as being an example for other young viewers.
During her year-long stint in the village, Maddie set her boyfriend Callum a three-month sex ban until she was ready to lose her virginity to him.
She was also nominated for the Sexiest Female at the British Soap Awards in 2012, but lost out to Michelle Keegan.
One of Hollyoaks ‘ most stunning sirens has ditched soaps for a career in fine art – 12 years after her memorable role
Best known for her role as bully Maddie Morrison, Scarlett Bowman departed the soap in 2012 when her character was brutally killed in a car crash
Despite being one of the soap’s biggest villains, Scarlett praised Maddie as being an example for other young viewers
Eventually Maddie met her demise in spectacular fashion, killed by a flying minibus door following a devastating crash, as part of the soap’s iconic Enjoy The Ride storyline.
But 12 years since bidding farewell to Hollyoaks, Scarlett has left the world of soaps behind, marrying her husband Rob Colicci in a lavish ceremony in Portofino in 2016.
The couple are proud parents to two children, son, Rafael, and daughter, Juno Rose.
After exchanging their vows, the happy couple sped off in a pale yellow Fiat 500 Jolly covered with flowers.
Scarlett has also landed qualifications in Fine Art, Textiles, and Photography, and went on to study Classics at Newcastle.
As well as juggling life as a mother-of-two, Scarlett is a aontemporary artist who specialises in collages and runs her business, placing art in commercial spaces.
In an interview with King and McGaw curator Becca Pelly-Fry, she said: ‘I take forever to make these collages in my mind and physically on the table.’
Explaining the choice behind the types of art she makes, she told Floorr Magazine: ‘I didn’t have much spare cash to be buying expensive art-related materials and so I made work with stuff I found all over the place – from literally around the house to skips, to discarded builders materials on the streets etc.
But 12 years since bidding farewell to Hollyoaks, Scarlett has left the world of soaps behind, marrying her husband Rob Colicci in a lavish ceremony in Portofino in 2016
As well as juggling life as a mother-of-two, Scarlett is a aontemporary artist who specialises in collages and runs her business, placing art in commercial spaces (pictured in 2019)
‘As a kid I used to collage old magazine scraps and I returned to this hobby when I left University, just in my spare time.
‘This ”collage” based approach developed to collaging found items and cheap materials purchased from local hardware and pound shops and as a result, this has naturally developed into a distinctly utilitarian-based aesthetic.’
Earlier this month, Hollyoaks kicked off their new major scheduling shake-up as it will go down from five to just three episodes per week.
It’s set to take a year-long time jump, with 20 cast members sadly being axed due to the ongoing Channel 4 cuts.
The channel said that they were making the change because it is the ‘optimum pattern to keep heartland audiences hooked and attract new ones in a highly saturated content market’ based on Channel 4 data.
