Francine "Frankie" Osborne (also Dean) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Helen Pearson, making her first on-screen appearance on 20 August 2002.

[2][3] She made her final appearance on 27 November 2017, as a ghost to Jack Osborne (portrayed by Jimmy McKenna).

While they use the insurance money to rebuild the pub, they stay at a grimy bed and breakfast where the owner constantly treats them poorly.

They are kicked out and briefly live with the McQueen family, until finally Frankie has had enough and forces Jack to use the insurance money he has been pocketing to pay for a nice hotel until they can go back to their apartment.

The day after Craig leaves for Dublin, she is seen drinking a glass of gin and reading his acceptance letter, smiling.

Nancy and Jake plead with doctors to run tests to see if either of them are eligible to donate their bone marrow to Charlie.

Frankie is concerned when Jack borrows £100,000 in cash from a loan shark to buy back Warren's share of the Dog.

While Jack and Steph begin to notice Jake's increasingly erratic behavior, Frankie still stands by his side.

Shortly after Eli used Frankie's salon keys to get into the trash place before writing on the walls DIE and RIP in red paint.

On 27 May 2009, Frankie and Jack found out that Darren had taken a £100,000 bribe from Warren Fox to get Jake to confess to Sean Kennedy's murder before gambling away the money, despite the family being in debt.

After this, an ashamed Darren stayed in his flat and rarely left, knowing everyone knew about the gambling, however, Cindy Cunningham managed to get him a job at a charity event in Il Ghosh.

Frankie breaks down in Darren's arms when finding out the news, and contacts her ex-husband Johnno and children Jake, Debbie, and Craig of Steph's death.

In 2011, Doug Carter attempts to commit suicide by jumping off of a bridge but eventually decides he would be better off alive after conversing with the ghost of Steph.

She is overjoyed and shocked to find that there is an extra recording entitled "Mum" and Frankie listens to the goodbye message from her daughter.

In October 2012, Nancy gives birth prematurely after having an emergency cesarean section and Jack and Frankie comfort her.

At Tony Hutchinson's wedding to Cindy Longford, which is shared with Ste Hay and Doug Carter, a minibus driven by Maddie Morrison crashes into the venue.

Frankie panics when she cannot find Tom; however, Jack tells her he is safe with the other children, who are being looked after by Annalise Appleton.

Frankie survives the ordeal without any injuries and helps Ruby cope with the deaths of Maddie and Neil Cooper.

The next day, Ruby's fiancé Jono dies in her arms after suffering undetected internal injuries from the crash, and Jack and Frankie comfort her.

Frankie accompanies Ruby and Esther to a memorial held at the college for Maddie, Neil, and Jono.

When Charlie subsequently runs away from home, Frankie, along with Jack, Darren, Nancy, Callum Kane, and Seamus Brady, goes out to search for him.

Jack sends them home, where Frankie snaps and begins arguing that Nancy's treatment of Charlie almost caused her only grandchild to die.

Frankie becomes stressed and begins a sexual affair with Ruby's boyfriend, Ziggy Roscoe (Fabrizio Santino) however she and Jack eventually sort things out.

She is later left devastated as her foster daughter, Jade Albright's cancer returns, and she supports her, along with the rest of the Osbornes, despite her anger.

Jade passes away after contracting an infection as a result of being immune suppressed, devastating Frankie and the rest of the Osborne family.

Frankie confides in Jack and Esther that she is beginning to feel like she doesn't have a purpose anymore and decides to start touring her Cher impersonation act again.

To her surprise, Johnno comes to visit and explains that his partner dropped out of a planned Cher and Elvis tour.

She and Jack argue, and he eventually gives her an ultimatum, asking her to meet him at the school where a prize-giving ceremony in memory of Jade was being held if she decides to stay with him.

As Jack is being put into the ambulance, Diane O'Connor offers to go to the Osborne's to tell Frankie about what has happened.

Fighting for his life in the hospital, Jack tells Frankie that he is coming to join her, but she convinces him to carry on living.