A FORMER Hollyoaks star got caught speeding twice in six weeks but managed to escape a driving ban so she can take her 14-year-old son to football training.
Phina Oruche played Gabby Sharpe in the Channel 4 soap opera in 2010 - now over a decade later, she has narrowly escaped a driving ban in Wirral Magistrates Court.
The 52-year-old successfully argued herself out of the punishment by convincing the judges she needed her car to drive her son to football practice.
She pleaded with the court for the sake of her "gifted" young son who "wants to be the next Cristiano Ronaldo". The teen has landed a two-year contract with League Two club Crewe Alexandra, who train several times a week in Cheshire, magistrates heard.
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