Chelsee Healey’s Hollyoaks future revealed as boyfriend faces 14 years in jail over supplying drugs
HOLLYOAKS star Chelsee Healey is returning to Hollyoaks despite her troubled personal life.
The actress – who plays Goldie McQueen in the Channel 4 soap – is currently on leave from the soap after welcoming her baby Cookie in December 2023.
She briefly returned last June to film funeral scenes and in January competed on Dancing on Ice before she was swiftly eliminated by the public vote.
Now The Sun can exclusively reveal that Chelsee IS returning to Hollyoaks after an extended break.
A source said: “Chelsee’s returning to filming this month after her leave.
“She’s had a tough time in her personal life recently but she’ll be back filming soon and that’ll help take her mind of it.”
The news comes just days after The Sun on Sunday revealed the identity of her father of her youngest child, Cookie.
Chelsee had tried to keep his identity a secret ever since Cookie’s birth in December.
But The Sun on Sunday revealed that he is Eddie Rainford, 31, who pleaded guilty to supplying Class B drugs at court on January 23, just four days after she was eliminated from ITV’s Dancing on Ice.
He is now facing up to 14 years in jail when he is sentenced on Friday at Manchester crown court.
Rainford is currently on remand at Forest Bank Prison in Greater Manchester, sources say.
After her ice exit, Chelsee hinted at the tough time she had endured away from the cameras, saying: “There has been a lot going on with me that I have been struggling with.”
A source said: “What Chelsee was desperately coping with while on the show was that her partner, the father of her youngest daughter, was in court for drug-dealing and has been sent to prison on remand.”
Another insider said she was no longer in a relationship with Rainford.
Rainford is charged with being concerned in the supply of a quantity of cannabis between November 11, 2022, and September 28, 2023, in Salford.
Co-defendant Jay Boyd faces the same charge.