114 Facts About Darren Osborne

Darren Osborne is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.

Darren Osborne was introduced by executive producer Phil Redmond as part of the Osborne family, making his first screen appearance on 18 November 1996, portrayed by Adam Booth.

Darren Osborne remains one of the longest-running characters in the programme.

Darren Osborne later helped his father, Jack, to fake his own death as part of a scam, which drew comparisons to the John Darwin disappearance case.

Darren Osborne has been known for his multiple relationships, including Cindy Cunningham, a "shotgun" marriage to Hannah Ashworth, a brief affair with his mother-in-law Suzanne Ashworth, two marriages to Nancy Hayton, an affair and subsequent relationship with Sienna Blake and his various relationships and brief affair with Mandy Richardson.

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Darren Osborne has three biological children: twins Jack and Francine and Oscar.

Darren Osborne has adopted Nancy's nephew Charlie Dean, who Nancy in turn adopted after her sister's death years prior.

Between 2019 and 2020, Darren Osborne constructed a friendship with Nancy's new partner Kyle Kelly, in a storyline which saw Kyle support Darren Osborne after he became depressed.

Darren Osborne was born as the result of an affair between Jack Osborne and Sandy Roscoe.

Darren Osborne arrives in Hollyoaks with parents Jack and Celia from America.

Darren Osborne becomes friends with Luke Morgan ; together they stand up to bully Mark Gibbs.

When Mark's bullying of Luke becomes more severe, Darren Osborne decides to befriend Mark in the hope he will go easy on Luke.

Darren Osborne is told no trace of Scott has been found, but Scott is alive and sends threatening postcards to Darren Osborne.

Scott attacks Darren Osborne, who pleads with Scott not to kill him, but the police arrive shortly after.

Darren Osborne later begins a relationship with Steph Dean, but ends it when she has an epileptic seizure, and he begins dating Zoe Carpenter.

Jack, unaware of Darren Osborne's addiction, gives him half The Dog in recognition of how much he has matured.

Darren Osborne begins counselling for his gambling addiction, but later plays poker with Warren Fox and loses his half of The Dog to him.

Jack and Frankie discover that Darren Osborne has stolen Frankie's jewellery and lost his half of The Dog.

Darren Osborne tries to help them, but is shot in a confrontation with their captor.

Darren Osborne takes the money to the casino, where he loses all of it overnight.

Darren Osborne turns himself in to the police after Jack refuses to leave the scene and the insurance scam is discovered.

Frankie and Jack discover that Darren Osborne took a £100,000 bribe from Warren to get Jake to confess to Sean's murder, and then gambled the money away despite the family being in debt.

Darren Osborne becomes depressed when his family ignore him and begins staying in his flat, refusing to leave.

Darren Osborne recovers and offers to leave Hollyoaks with Hannah but she rejects his offer and leaves alone.

Darren Osborne fails to win back Cindy's affections as she marries Alistair, but she gives him a brooch before leaving.

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Darren Osborne gives birth on 21 January 2011 to Jack and Francine.

Nancy believes Darren Osborne is having an affair with Cindy and decides to leave Hollyoaks village to live in Canada.

Darren Osborne tells Nancy about the wedding he has been planning.

Darren Osborne blames Nancy for their son's premature birth and tells her he will not forgive her if their son dies.

Darren Osborne eventually finds out about Nancy's painkiller addiction leaving him furious and Nancy moves away for a short time.

However, things only get worse when Sienna blackmails Darren to get Tom to change his statement or she'll create even more problems for the Osbornes.

Darren Osborne starts to have a heart attack and Sienna, realizing what she's done, saves him at the last minute.

Darren Osborne's company got off to a rocky start as he was unable to know where he was going and got Dr Charles S'avage late for two important meetings.

However Darren Osborne teamed up with Kim to force Dr S'avage to give him the hospital taxi contract and recruited Tony to work as his receptionist.

However they came to blows over the name and design of the company, but resolved their differences with Darren Osborne moving into the boarding house, Tony working as a taxi driver and Maxine Minniver takes over as receptionist.

Trevor Royle orders Darren Osborne to get rid of the gun but Patrick records him burying it and blackmails him into saying Maxine is an alcoholic and she loses custody of Minnie.

Darren Osborne later finds Maxine on top of a church roof and pleads with her not to jump as Minnie needs her.

Darren Osborne helps Maxine set up her own cab business Minnie Cabs so she stands a chance at getting Minnie back.

When Darren Osborne finds out that Patrick is dying he tells Patrick that he is sticking by Maxine and that when he's dead he'll be dancing on his grave.

Darren Osborne convinces Sienna it isn't him and confesses to having an affair.

Darren Osborne meets up with Mandy and tells her needs to be there for Nancy and they break up.

Darren Osborne was created by Hollyoaks producer Phil Redmond in 1996.

Darren Osborne was created along with his father Jack Osborne and step-mother Celia; they arrived from America to join Darren's older sister Ruth, who was already living in the village.

Darren Osborne moved back to America and later returned until the current time.

Darren Osborne has been referred to as "one of the most popular and longest serving Hollyoaks characters".

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Darren Osborne went on to secure the part of Darren following an audition.

At first, according to Dawson, Darren Osborne was "very manipulative" and willing to "do anything to get his own way".

Dawson added that some of Darren Osborne's actions were "blatantly horrible" although he felt that this made Darren Osborne "such a fun character to play".

Darren Osborne explained that his character becoming a father led him to develop and mature further, stating that Darren accepted his responsibilities as a father and "tries hard to be the father that he wants to be".

Darren Osborne felt that Darren enjoyed being a father and that it made him feel "complete and like he has a purpose in life, whereas before he was always chasing his tail".

Dawson felt that as time went on, Darren Osborne became more helpful, sympathetic and more empathetic towards other characters, especially Jake Dean.

Darren Osborne often wore string vests and gold jewellery but he later changed his style which became more mature.

Darren Osborne takes advantage of the situation and begins a relationship with Luke's girlfriend Mandy Richardson.

Darren Osborne said Mandy would either be "shocked and turn to Darren for support" or "feel guilty about what she's done" and reunite with Luke.

Dawson felt if this were to happen Darren Osborne would "try to shrug it off" although "deep down, he cares for Mandy".

Dawson felt that Darren Osborne should become a "hero" to Luke, fixing all his problems which would rectify him beginning a relationship with Mandy.

Darren Osborne becomes embroiled in a feud with Scott Anderson, and Scott sets fire to The Loft with Darren Osborne inside.

Darren Osborne has a brief relationship with Steph Dean, with Stenson commenting that Steph "really loved him" even though he was a "dirty dog to her".

Darren Osborne can't stop because he has to win but he just ends up losing more and more.

Darren Osborne begins gambling in 2008 and later his addiction causes him a great deal of trouble, leading him to steal from his family and ultimately losing everything.

On his character's addiction, Dawson commented that Darren Osborne is initially on a "winning streak" but quickly begins to "lose everything, including Zoe Carpenter ".

Darren Osborne felt that Darren is torn about his addiction because although he is aware of his problem he believes "his next big win is just around the corner".

Darren Osborne begins counselling for his addiction but later plays a game of poker with Warren in which he loses his share of The Dog in the Pond.

Darren Osborne begins a "Bonnie and Clyde partnership" with Jessica Harris which producer Bryan Kirkwood described as "very funny".

The storyline was compared to John Darwin faking his own death with the Daily Record commenting, "Clearly, the news stories about John Darwin and his canoe haven't reached Chester" while the Sunday Mercury commented that Darren Osborne's guilt was deserved "in shades of the current John 'dead canoeist' Darwin court case".

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Dawson explained that Darren Osborne initially thought faking Jack's death was a "brilliant idea" but put this down to lack of sleep and stress.

Dawson felt that if Darren Osborne gets through the events without becoming bitter, twisted and cynical, then he could learn from his mistakes but "it could go the other way and he might blame everyone other than himself".

Darren Osborne added that Hannah would never have gone out with Darren willingly, "not even under the influence".

Darren Osborne felt Hannah stayed married to Darren to annoy her parents and to get attention.

Darren Osborne decides to stay married to try to get The Dog back, so proposes that they do not get their marriage annulled to Hannah.

Darren Osborne offers to leave Hollyoaks with Hannah but she rejects his offer and leaves Hollyoaks alone.

Darren Osborne begins an affair with Hannah's mother, Suzanne, whose son Rhys is Darren Osborne's friend.

Darren Osborne gives birth to twins before she moves in with Darren and girlfriend Nancy Hayton.

Darren Osborne felt the pair are "made for each other" but when together are "destructive".

Darren Osborne felt that if Cindy was with Darren, Darren "could be the love of her life", but felt Cindy would be sensible and choose the relationship best for her daughter's welfare.

Darren Osborne marries Hannah Ashworth and he and Cindy plan to scam The Dog.

Darren Osborne added that they are motivated by money which made Hannah and Tony "useful to them", and commented that he wouldn't be surprised if they worked together to get what they want from their partners.

Darren Osborne added that Darren wouldn't "have any problems with stabbing Tony in the back even now because Darren's that kind of guy".

Darren Osborne proposes to Cindy on the day of her wedding but she declines stating she wants to give Holly a better life and more financial security which Alistair can give her.

Waring opined that Darren Osborne asking Cindy to help plan his wedding made her feel "needed and wanted".

Waring said Darren Osborne telling Cindy she will have to let him go leaves her "devastated".

Darren Osborne is due to go on a date he has arranged and Nancy comes to watch him, Darren Osborne's date does not arrive.

Pair become engaged after Darren Osborne proposes, although the proposal is accidental rather than planned.

Darren Osborne felt that the story was "interesting" and hoped the pairing would survive as they have "something special".

Fox commented that the pair would make good parents but have "a lot of growing up to do themselves", before adding that she hoped "Nancy and Darren Osborne would stay together for a long time" as she enjoyed the pairing.

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Series producer Emma Smithwick commented on the storyline explaining that because Darren Osborne was organising the wedding it was "never going to be as smooth as if somebody else was organising it".

Darren Osborne added that the wedding was a "long time coming" for the couple but there going to be "a few obstacles in the way", some self-imposed and some caused by external forces.

Darren Osborne added that the event would be in "true Darren style".

Darren Osborne explained that Darren feels Nancy is good for him but Darren almost feels undeserving of her.

Dawson commented that Darren Osborne had "been through the mill" but "for once in his life, Darren Osborne is happy".

Dawson put this down to Darren Osborne getting the Dog in the Pond back and his relationship with Nancy.

Darren Osborne explained that due to lack of funds Darren will "have to call in a lot of favours but he hasn't got many friends".

Dawson felt that Darren Osborne would have to see the idea through to the end, even if Darren Osborne would end up "upside-down in mud".

Dawson said that Darren Osborne feels like the wedding is "going to be the most perfect day possible and he just can't wait to see the look on Nancy's face when she realises what he's been up to".

Fox said that Margaret believes Darren Osborne is "not good enough for Nancy" so begins trying to split the pair up.

Dawson explained that Darren Osborne felt "relief" that the wedding went ahead as he "often worried that Nancy is too good for him".

Dawson said that at first, Darren Osborne chooses to be in denial about it wants nothing to do with Suzanne because he does not want to lose Nancy.

Darren Osborne finds himself in a situation he never expected when he has to deliver the babies and accept responsibility for them.

Dawson felt that Darren Osborne enjoys being a father and it gives him a "purpose in life" which he has never had before.

Dawson explained that Darren Osborne usually thinks of himself but is thinking of the babies.

E4, regarding Darren Osborne becoming a father, commented that due to his previous antics, he would not be an ideal candidate for "Father of the year".

Darren Osborne has the ability of charming his way out of every situation and he can play a married woman like putty in his hands if he so wishes.

Darren Osborne made the viewer-voted shortlist, but lost out to Dominic Brunt, who portrays Paddy Kirk in Emmerdale.

Darren Osborne was listed in "The Top 100 Soap Hunks of All Time" by What's on TV.

An Inside Soap critic commented that Darren Osborne was initially a "freckly auburn-haired forgettable schoolboy" when played by Booth.

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Darren Osborne's character was branded a "rat" and "dastardly" for splitting up Gina and Emily by the Daily Record.

Darren Osborne added that the "tried-and-tested" characters helped the show through its rough patches and that they should be given the storylines they deserved.

Griffiths' colleague Sarah maintained that Darren Osborne was the only part of the show that held her interest.

Kris Green of Digital Spy responded negatively to Darren Osborne's marriage to Hannah, saying "I still have NO idea why the storyliners thought it was a good idea to marry them off".

Digital Spy's Daniel Kilkelly questioned whether Darren Osborne could adjust to fatherhood, while What's on TV labelled him a "doting father".

Darren Osborne said that "with Darren's cheeky escapades and Nancy's no-messing attitude, they'll make the perfect parents and we can't wait to see them with a little one".

Crick went on to say "while Darren Osborne might be dad to twins already, we think he's got potential to be great daddy material".

Fellow producer Paul Marquess spoke positively of Dawson's performance in an interview with Digital Spy, stating, "I think Ashley Taylor Dawson, who plays Darren Osborne, is a really strong actor, and by the end of this year we'll see a very different side to his character".

Co-star Kieron Richardson commented on Dawson's performance as Darren Osborne, calling Dawson one of the serial's "strongest actors", adding that Dawson compelled him to watch when he was on screen.