Hollyoaks hunks who quit the soap - addiction battle, Corrie and tragic deaths

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Hollyoaks this week after Sylver McQueen comes back to haunt her.Sylver's death left the village residents and viewers devastated after he was killed off in an explosion earlier this year, alongside Marnie Nightingale.Speaking about his exit from the soap, Sylver actor David Tag said he was proud of the way the character was written out of the programme, telling Digital Spy: "When I was told how I was leaving, I thought that was much better. "If you go out in a taxi, the option is there for you to go back, but I wanted to go out all guns blazing in an explosion with a big dramatic death as a hero."As we eagerly wait to find out what David Tag will do next and when he will return to our TV screens in another series, Daily Star has taken a look back on other heartthrobs who have left Hollyoaks since the series began.Ricky Whittle became an instant heartthrob when he rose to fame as Calvin Valentine on Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.His role later led to one of the most shocking storylines in the soap, when Calvin was shot and killed during the first dance at his wedding in 2010.That wasn't the last that viewers would see of Ricky Whittle though, as he soon landed the lead role of Shadow Moon in the critically acclaimed TV series American Gods, based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman.It is Ricky's latest role, following appearances in TV series such as Mistresses and The 100, with American Gods running for over four years between 2017 and 2021.However, fans were left devastated when the Starz TV channel announced that the programme would be cancelled after its third series.Ricky later took to Instagram to address the news, saying to fans: "This has been an amazing journey thus far and I am so grateful to my fellow cast.