Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A soap fan who credits the show Hollyoaks with saving their life is having a film made about their story.
Mental health activist John Junior was struggling in lockdown last year when a powerful storyline about depression and suicide on the Channel Four show brought them back from the brink.
In June 2020 John - who is gender fluid and uses the pronouns they/them - felt suffocated, trapped and petrified of going outside due to his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
They felt like they had no outlet and had nowhere to turn. But while watching a storyline on Hollyoaks, about friends Kyle Kelly and Darren Osborn, who were both
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