Dan O'Connor reveals odd fan invite

Dan O'Connor reveals odd fan invite
Dan O'Connor reveals odd fan invite (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Hollyoaks star Daniel O'Connor has revealed that a fan once complained to soap bosses after she invited him to stay at her house - and he failed to reply. The 33-year-old Australian actor, who plays Ally Gorman in the show, told Inside Soap magazine that the unlikely invite came when he was still playing Ned Parker in Neighbours. "When I was on Neighbours there was this woman from Britain who used to send me packages with things like wristbands and a cassette called 'PS I Love You'," he said. "I found out later that she'd written a complaint letter to the production office, saying that I hadn't responded to her invitation to come and see her and stay on her new settee in her bungalow!" "I did send her a signed fan card eventually, and said thanks for all the gifts." Daniel, who joined Hollyoaks in January, also admitted that he is missing life in Australia - particularly the beaches and the weather. "When I lived in Sydney I was about half an hour from the beach so we were there pretty much every weekend," he revealed. "It's the done thing Down Under."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.