When Emma discovered she was pregnant, Ben decided to have nothing to do with the baby and married his girlfriend, Izzy Cornwell (Elize du Toit).
Stacey Foxx first appeared when she had a one-night stand of Kristian Hargreaves, who later used her to make his girlfriend Dannii Carbone jealous.
Stacey became obsessed with him Kristian, who learned that she was working with Dannii to teach him a lesson for his poor treatment of women.
Stacey began to have feelings for him and one day, decided to seduce him using whipped cream, however his mother Sally showed up and assumed she was using their home for escorting.
Eventually, it was revealed that Carrie and her family had to move homes because of Sam having been in prison for three years due to setting a house on fire, a crime that he never committed.
Later on, Carrie’s husband, Rob, arrived in the village and wanted to make up with his family after they had a fall out over Sam’s innocence.
In 2018, Mercedes went to stay with Rob and Carrie for a while before going to Spain after giving her son Bobby to Cleo to hide him from Carl.
Rachel Osborne is a fictional character from the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Lucy Evans.
After weeks of fighting and squabbling, the final straw came when her uncle Jack Osborne found out about her failing her exams due to the lack of work and also her second pregnancy but not knowing who the father was.
He discovered that Jules had started the fire in revenge for her dad forcing her into having an abortion, not realising her brother was inside.
Bella Manning is a fictional character on the long-running Channel 4 British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
James Walker, played by O-T Fagbenle, was Lisa Hunter's (Gemma Atkinson) tutor at Hollyoaks Community College.
Chris Fenwick is a fictional character on the long-running Channel 4 British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
Lee, Zara, Freddy and Chris were all kicked out of school, but faced no legal action due to the lack of evidence.
Candy Browne is a fictional character from the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Laura Handley.
In 2017, when Johnno arrives at the village, he mentioned to Frankie that he was no longer with Michelle, and Presley was living with him, although the circumstances behind this were not explained.
Paula Fitzpatrick, played by Beth MacDonald, was a friend of Justin Burton (Chris Fountain), who briefly dated his step-brother Ali Taylor (Luti Fagbenle).