Hollyoaks star Amanda Clapham has confessed she is no relation to co-star Charlie Clapham, they just pretended to be.

The actress took over the role of Holly Cunningham in the Channel 4 soap in 2013 and since then everyone has assumed she is related to co-star Charlie, who plays Freddie Roscoe, just because the have the same name.

Amanda told Inside Soap: “We are absolutely not related!

“We played along with it for ages, to be fair, and even posted a picture of us on Twitter captioned, ‘Family time #bigbro’ as a joke.

“People still think we’re related though.

“I’m devastated that he was in the show first, because I wanted to be the first Clapham in Hollyoaks!”