Lee ends their relationship, beginning a romance with Amy Barnes (Ashley Slanina-Davies) which causes Leanne to become obsessed with him.

Leanne turns into a "real bunny boiler" and develops a rivalry with Amy, doing "terrible things" to her.

At first, I'd heard all this stuff about 'the industry', but I soon found out that Hollyoaks is a real team effort – and it's actually the least intimidating place that I've ever worked.

[2][3] Anna Shaffer originally auditioned for the role of Leanne, but she was later cast as Ruby Button.

[2] The shows executive producer, Lee Hardman, said "Hollyoaks: The Morning After The Night Before was a huge success for us and we hope to build on that success with Hollyoaks: Freshers, which will explore the concept of multi-layered storytelling - engaging the audience across multiple, digital platforms.

"[2] Jody Smith, Channel 4's cross platform commissioner for drama, entertainment and comedy, added: "Freshers is an exciting new direction for Hollyoaks.

We're introducing a batch of new characters with over 60 minutes of original online drama and social media, telling their back-stories and journey to Hollyoaks before they arrive on TV.

[10] Hollyoaks series producer, Paul Marquess, said that Lee would return with a new character,[11] which was revealed to be Leanne.

[1] Their relationship is established to viewers in Hollyoaks: Freshers, in which Leanne and Lee "provide the romantic element".

[13] In January 2011, Marquess told Digital Spy that Leanne would turn into a "real bunny boiler" and be involved in a serious storyline where she would do "terrible things" to Amy.

[14] The storyline developed naturally after the show's team liked Leanne being funny and they started "playing on that".

"[6] It was announced as Hollyoaks celebrated its eighteenth anniversary that five characters would die as part of an explosion.

An official image released on the show's tumblr page revealed that Leanne would be involved in the storyline and would be one of the characters who could potentially die.

[15] When the episodes aired, four characters initially died while both Leanne and Dodger Savage (Danny Mac) were left in a critical condition.

The outcome of the storyline was not announced previous to its airing, which left viewers to "wonder which one of them won't make it through".

Leanne and her boyfriend, Lee Hunter (Alex Carter), plan to move to Hollyoaks village.

Leanne overhears Jem Costello (Helen Russell-Clark) calling her boring and kisses Doug Carter (PJ Brennan).

Leanne moves in with Doug and Ethan Scott (Craig Vye) after completing the first year of university.

She fails in her attempts to begin a relationship with various men, including Louis Souyaye, Danny Lawrence and Matt Gill.

Leanne sleeps with Dennis Savage (Joe Tracini) at the start of 2013 and is shocked to wake up in bed with him.

Dennis' cousin, Will Savage (James Atherton) frames Leanne for killing her friend, Texas Longford (Bianca Hendrickse-Spendlove), and she is charged and remanded in custody.

Will's mother Anna Blake (Saskia Wickham) later takes the blame for killing Texas and Leanne is released.

Leah overhears Leanne on the phone to Dennis telling him that Ste killed his mother Pauline Hay (Julie Hogarth).

Dennis waits anxiously for news on his step-cousin Dodger (Danny Mac) and when a body is brought out, it is actually Leanne.

Leanne then passes away, a few hours after marrying Dennis, due to a bleed on the brain she suffered from the bomb blast.

[19] The official Hollyoaks website ran a poll on who Lee should be with and 478 votes were cast, with 72.18% of viewers choosing Amy over Leanne.

[20] In 2011, Daniel Kilkelly of Digital Spy said that Leanne has proved to be one of "the most memorable of last year's batch of new characters".

[6] Inside Soap conducted a poll to find out which Hollyoaks character their readers wanted serial killer Silas Blissett (Jeff Rawle) to murder the most.