HOLLYOAKS original Lucy Benson actress Kerrie Taylor looks completely different 22 years after quitting the soap.

The actress has grown up since her days playing the fresh-faced teen, having joined the soap shortly after finishing school.

Kerrie, now 48, joined the cast of Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks when she was just 18 back in 1995 as original character Lucy Benson.

Lucy was introduced as part of the Benson family, and dated Rob Hawthorne – played by Warren De Rose – throughout her appearance.

The youngster was at the heart of many dramatic storylines, including the deaths of Dermot Ashton and her younger brother Ollie.

Tense scenes saw Lucy using drugs to cope with the deaths, before travelling away from the town to get away from the drama.

Kerrie left the soap in 2000 after five years on screen, filming her final scenes around Christmas time in the previous year.

After leaving the soap, Kerrie was seen in a number of TV series including Crossroads, Clocking Off, Holby City and Fallen.

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She went on to have a starring role as Beth Enright in Where the Heart Is from 2001 to 2005, before heading to BBC drama Doctors.

More recently, she was spotted in crime drama The Bay, playing protagonist and police department boss Tony's ex-wife.

Kerrie's character Ellen was seen breaking the heart of her husband when she blamed his job for coming between them.

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Outside her time on screen, Kerrie is married to journalist Jason Farrell – having tied the knot back in 2001.

She's not the only Hollyoaks star leaving fans shocked at their changing visage, as viewers couldn't believe the difference in Adam Woodward.

Adam, 29, rose to fame in ITV soap Emmerdale as Grant before going on to play Brody Hudson in Channel 4's Hollyoaks back in 2017.

The character found himself wrapped up in a number of tricky storylines throughout his appearance before he quit the soap last year.

Adam quit the soap in September, with the plans first put into motion for him to leave "before Covid hit" as the actor revealed he "knew where Brody was going".

He told The Express of conversations months before his departure: "We were discussing where to take Brody or whether his time was going to be wrapped up."

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