“‘Catch Him!’: Hollyoaks Star Demands Abe Fielding Be Exposed”
"The more evil he is, the bigger the comeuppance needs to be."
Hollyoaks star Tyler Conti has revealed that he can’t wait for his nasty character, Abe Fielding, to finally be caught out for everything that he has done.
After Abe first arrived in the village in January as Cleo McQueen’s boyfriend, it became clear that Abe was being controlling and abusive toward Cleo.
After months of mistreatment at Abe’s hands, Cleo fled on a motorbike but accidentally caused a horror crash that killed Suzanne Ashworth.
Following the soap’s flash-forward, it was revealed that Abe had been keeping Cleo captive in a secret room at his home for an entire year and had been lying that she had also caused his mum Marie’s death.
Now that Cleo has finally found out the truth – that Marie is still alive and that Abe is planning on marrying Peri Lomax – she has come up with a revenge plan, which will unfold this week as Cleo fakes her own death and turns up to stop Abe from marrying Peri.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Conti has revealed that he thinks Abe “deserves everything he gets” after his horrific abuse of Cleo and his treatment of Peri.
“There needs to be justice otherwise we question what story are we telling if Cleo doesn’t get her justice,” he said. “The more evil he is, the bigger the comeuppance needs to be served by the people he’s treated badly. It needs a woman because that twisted element.”
The actor went on to explain that he quickly realised after joining the soap that his dark storyline could “go anywhere and anything can happen”.
“I was very much thrown in the deep end and now I’m comfortable in the deep end,” he said. “It’s quite nice that nothing is too shocking anymore and you just learn to swim in it.”
He added that he has been “shouted” at in the street since joining Hollyoaks and has also “got some dark messages”.
“But when I tell people about it they say it’s a testament to how I’ve been playing it,” he said.
This week will see dramatic scenes air on the soap, as Abe and Cleo’s storyline comes to a climax ahead of his and Peri’s wedding day.
Abe is also hiding another secret, as viewers recently learned that he raped sister-in-law Leela Dexter in the woods during the show’s time jump.