Summer Ranger is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Rhiannon Clements.
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Summer Ranger was billed as a "frenemy" for Sienna Blake, with who she later forms a romantic connection.
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Summer Ranger has been nominated in three categories at the upcoming Inside Soap Awards.
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Summer Ranger appreciated that her story arc had not revolved around her disability.
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Summer Ranger found her character to be fun and sarcastic and appreciated the "zest" and "bite" Summer has.
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Clements opined that Summer Ranger is an interesting role for her to play due to having two extremes to her personality; "sweetness and light" and a nastiness.
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Summer Ranger liked that there is a "juxtaposition to play with" and have Summer "presenting as one thing, but actually having the undertones of another thing".
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Summer Ranger said that her backstory had not been explored fully since she had just arrived in the village, but confirmed that "there's a lot that's gone on in her past that informs the way she behaves".
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Summer Ranger arrives in Hollyoaks village looking for Cormac, "much to the concern of Brody, Felix and Warren".
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Brody does initially not know Summer Ranger is related to Cormac, whom he put in a coma alongside Warren and Felix.
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Summer Ranger gives Summer a job and does not feel concerned that she will discover the truth, but eventually as "the plot thickens and the story moves along", Summer begins to make realisations about what happened.
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Summer Ranger concludes that Warren is responsible for the attack.
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Summer Ranger explained that although her character is "meticulous", her revenge will "come out in different ways to how she anticipated".
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Summer Ranger confirmed that there would be a lot of upcoming material for her character and that there would be "a lot of twists and turns from her and for her".
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Clements said that Summer Ranger develops romantic feelings for Brody and when she discovers that Sienna, Brody's partner, is having an affair with Warren, she plots to expose them.
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Clements explained that Summer Ranger has two motivations for exposing them; wanting them to take ownership of their actions and wanting to get close to Brody.
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Summer Ranger added that Brody not being with Sienna means she can develop their relationship "without Sienna being in the way".
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Summer Ranger takes photographs of Sienna and Warren together and posts them through Brody's letterbox; he ends their relationship and finds Summer Ranger is there "to mend his broken heart".
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Summer Ranger begins to "dream of a future" with Brody and makes an "ally" out of Brody's best friend Damon Kinsella, who she believes will influence Brody to get with her.
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Clements stated that Summer Ranger "feels the most attacked" by Brody's involvement, since he has "lied to her face and manipulated her".
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Summer Ranger explained that Summer's wish for revenge is still there and that she is annoyed that the shooting did not "exact in the way that she wanted it to".
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Summer Ranger feels she has to "lie low" and "deflect from the reality of what's happened by putting blame elsewhere" in order to carry out the rest of her revenge.
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Summer Ranger tries to befriend Sienna, but she does not reciprocate Summer Ranger's friendly advances.
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Summer Ranger opens up to her and makes her believe that they can be friends.
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Summer Ranger is "delighted in Sienna's unexpectedly dark behaviour" and tells her that if she is in prison, she will never get to kiss her again.
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Summer Ranger learns that Sienna is going on a date; she deletes the text from her date and attends the date herself, pretending to be Sienna.
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Summer Ranger said that Summer is "consumed by Sienna" and "wants to be [her] everything".
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Summer Ranger furthered her point, explaining that Summer sees something in Sienna that she has never seen in anybody before.
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Summer Ranger explains her feelings for Sienna, who replies that she hates Summer Ranger.
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However, Summer Ranger is "relentless" and affirms that Sienna does feel romantically for her.
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Summer Ranger explains the similarity between their dark qualities and how nobody understands them both, dubbing them "two twisted unlovable souls".
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Summer Ranger admitted that Summer has done terrible things to her and her loved ones, but felt that her own character could always understand why Summer had behaved in this way.
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Summer Ranger acknowledged that the journey for Summer and Sienna would be a long one, but that it could be possible for them.
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Summer Ranger convinces Brody to marry her while she is still missing, but at the ceremony, she tells Brody that she cannot marry him.
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Summer Ranger tries to convince Sienna that Brody is responsible for Liberty's disappearance and that he has murdered her.
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Summer Ranger informs the pair that she plans on murdering Sienna to get back at Brody, but he informs Summer Ranger that he will report himself and Warren to the police for the part they played in Cormac's murder.
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Sienna is adamant that Summer Ranger is responsible for his murder and informs the police.
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Summer Ranger denies the accusations which infuriates Sienna, but she is informed that Summer Ranger will be imprisoned for her other crimes.
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Summer Ranger revealed that she was contracted for 12 months, and since that contract had finished, she would be leaving the soap.
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Summer Ranger was happy that her exit had been left open for a possible return, hinting that Summer could return following her release and redeem herself.
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Summer Ranger accredited this to the heavy filming schedule that appearing on a soap involves, which she felt had been a learning curve for her as an actress.
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Summer Ranger replied that Summer feels angry for feeling as though she failed her father, but is glad that justice has been served without having to do it herself.
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Summer Ranger explained that with the right amount of reason and development, Summer could be redeemed in the same way Passey's character Sienna was.
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Clements felt that in order for Summer Ranger to be redeemed, she would have to realise that Cormac was a racist abuser.
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Summer Ranger added that if Summer was able to see Cormac in his true light, she "would have a very different take on the way things have panned out".
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Summer Ranger wrote that her story arc involving framing Warren for shooting Sienna was "captivating".
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