List of Hollyoaks characters introduced in 2003

Dale Jackson is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Laila Rouass.

Upon Rouass's casting the Liverpool Echo said "if tv bosses are looking for a replacement for Cilla - Hollyoaks newest recruit may be the answer" and described her as a "new soap siren".

[2] Rouass commented on the casting saying "Dale is a real go-getter, very independent and career-minded she doesn't take any nonsense.

Linda arrived in Hollyoaks and interfered in Toby's relationship with Ellie Hunter (Sarah Baxendale) by attempting to split them up.

She witnessed Toby beat Steph Dean (Carley Stenson) unconscious with a spanner and followed him home to confront him.

Ellie arrived home to find Linda lying at the bottom of the stairs, called an ambulance and helped with the cover-up.

A year later in June 2004, Ellie's brother Lee Hunter (Alex Carter) discovered the body of another one of Toby's victims inside Linda's garage.

Alison continues with this, ignoring Will's warning that her behaviour makes her no better than Emma and that she risks Arthur resenting her in the future.

They briefly returned six months later in the late night special Hollyoaks: Let Loose when Ben decides to file for full custody of Arthur after a chance meeting leads to Ben spending time with Arthur, and he decides the time had come to heal the rift with his son.

Joe Spencer, played by Matt Milburn, debuted on-screen during episodes airing on 23 September 2003 as a new student.

[7] Joe arrives as a young fresher in Hollyoaks studying fashion and got himself in a bit of a bother with roommate Robbie Flynn (Andy Newton-Lee), after the pair had a falling out over room sharing.

However it wasn't too last for too long as Joe moved on to his next relationship, this time with Sophie Burton (Connie Powney).

Joe soon built up a good friendship relations with Dannii Carbone (Christina Baily), Russ Owen (Stuart Manning) and Jeremy Peterson (Simon Cole).

Despite being a cheeky chap, Joe's confidence was to take a huge blow after he was beaten up by a bunch of teenage school girls.

Although he and Dannii were forced to leave the student flat they shared with Zara Morgan (Kelly Greenwood) and Jez to make room for Jessica Harris (Jennifer Biddall) and Olivia Johnson (Rochelle Gadd), it appeared that he moved back into the flat after Zara Mark Jury (Ash Newman) moved out.

The whole debt saga cost Joe dearly as he was unable to take his exams as the college records had him down as "deceased" and had to resit his final year.

Joe made it up to Zoe by telling her he regretted dumping her in high school and then they went to The Dog in The Pond together with Kris Fisher (Gerard McCarthy), Jessica, and Olivia.

That night escaped rapist Sam Owen (Louis Tamone) burst into the pub and set it on fire.

The two battled with each other hoping to get the other one to move out, this lasted a while as the two kept on winding each other up and getting back at one another, but they eventually decided to give up the war and become friends.

According to Joe, Robbie moved to Ibiza to become a Holiday rep. Elizabeth Burton (also Taylor) is played by Andrée Bernard and first appeared on 10 October 2003.

She single mother of three teenagers Mel, Sophie, and Justin, Liz spent most of her life trying to maintain the peace between her offspring, after their father committed suicide.

After getting himself an invite to the Burton house and spiking both girls' drinks with GHB, Andy offered an unconscious Sophie as a present to Sam.

Although Sam was tempted due to his strong feelings he had for Sophie, he found himself unable to go through with the rape because he didn't want to hurt the girl he loved.

The next morning, when Sam and Andy had long since fled, Sophie and Mel recovered from the drowsiness of being drugged and pieced together what had happened to them.

Gradually Sophie managed to put Sam behind her and began to work at the newly opened salon Evissa as she was hired as an assistant for Sean Kennedy.

Also Sophie, along with Mel, moved in with her friend Louise Summers after a brief spell of being homeless when Liz left Hollyoaks and sold the Burton house.

She told him that they were at the local pub The Dog in The Pond - in fact only Sophie was there (with Mel and OB) as Russ was having sex with Mercedes.

Things got worse for Ali as Justin spiraled towards drug addiction, smoking marijuana, since the pair shared a bedroom.

After Nicole rebuked him for being a coward, Ali took the knife, that Richard had confiscated from Justin, from its hiding place and sought out Macki alone.

Alison attacked her but they were separated by Johnno Dean (Colin Wells) and Les Hunter (John Graham Davies).