Cheryl Brady

Cheryl Nicolette Brady is the younger half-sister of Brendan Brady and the second born child to Seamus Brady.
Cheryl was seen to be the polar opposite of her brother, Brendan, as she is seen as fun, bubbly and comedic as to pose to Brendan who is seen as a sociopath. 
Cheryl is first seen in the very first season of Hollyoaks Later in November 2008 where its seen she has ties too current regulars at the time, Malachy and Kris Fisher, Cheryl made a full time return to the main show by July 2009. 
Cheryl during her time on the show sees her having many clashes with the other local female characters most notably that of Mercedes McQueen and Cindy Cunningham but Cheryl also had many friendships and relationships albeit she was a tad unlucky in love until she met Nate Tenbury-Newent whom she gets engaged too and departs with. 
==Biography==
===Backstory===
Cheryl was the younger sister of Brendan, however due to having different mothers Cheryl and Brendan grew up in different parts of Ireland, Cheryl idolised her father from a young age unaware of his abuse towards Brendan. Cheryl also grew up and became close friends with Lynsey Nolan and at some point in her teens she dated Malachy Fisher. 
===2008-2009: Arrivals===
Cheryl is first seen in the very first season of Hollyoaks Later in November 2008 when both childhood friends, Malachy and Kris Fisher return to Ireland for their fathers funeral. At first Cheryl does not take a liking to Malachy's hot headed fiancé Mercedes McQueen but Cheryl takes an attraction to Malachy's friend, Zak Ramsey and sleeps with him but Zak feels a tad intimidated by Cheryl's erratic behaviour and she ends up scaring him of and despite not liking Mercedes, Cheryl encourages Malachy to marry her when she sees how much he loves her. 
Cheryl then later arrives in Hollyoaks village in July 2009 where its seen she's getting out of the back of a cab and tells Malachy after tracking him down that she's arrived to find Zak and discovers that his currently attending the funeral of Warren Fox and along with Malachy, Cheryl finds Zak and clashes with Zak's current girlfriend, Michaela McQueen as well as been ordered to leave by a grieving Sasha Valentine as Cheryl was being to loud during the service and Cheryl's scene goes from bad to worse when she bumps into Mercedes and this leads too a fight between the two women and afterwards Cheryl reveals to Malachy and Kris that the real reason she arrived was because a man had died while having sex with her and was worried that the Police will arrest her and send her to Prison however Kris later informs Cheryl that this isn't the case. 
Cheryl is then given a job at MOBS by Steph Cunningham and also moves into The Student Halls after taking a fancying towards Calvin Valentine, Cheryl bonds with Spencer Gray in an attempt to impress Calvin and after being kicked out of the Student Halls, Cheryl moves in with The Valentine's and gets on well with Leo despite annoying Calvin but when Sasha returns home she tells her family to get Cheryl to leave but when Cheryl manages to talk Malachy and Mercedes out of suing Spencer, Sasha allows her to stay. Later Cheryl is left embarrassed when she attempts to make Calvin jealous when she kisses, Gilly Roach, who is also on a mission to make Steph jealous but Gilly's false tooth falls in Cheryl's mouth during the kiss leaving both embarrassed. 
Cheryl then actually starts to develop feelings for Gilly and blurts out that she's in fact in love with Gilly when she sticks up for him after Calvin was bad mouthing him but despite this Cheryl again is left red faced when she notices Gilly has an engagement ring and assumes that his going to propose to her and announces she's going to be engaged and Gilly acts like a fool to put Cheryl off him but this does not work therefore Gilly accuses her of having an affair with his best mate, Rhys Ashworth and Cheryl ends it but Gilly comes to his senses and sees he does actually love Cheryl therefore Cheryl is proposed too by Gilly for real but Cheryl finds out that Gilly is in love with Steph and ends her relationship to Gilly. 
===2010: Winning Club Ownership & Close Arrivals===
Cheryl starts 2010 relatively quiet however she did tell Carmel Valentine about the affair between Mercedes and Calvin after Calvin is murdered as well as telling the [olice that Mercedes is behind Alvin's murder and she also puts Gilly behind her and moves on but things pick up when Cheryl wins the lottery of £250,000 and in top of that her older half-brother Brendan Brady arrives in the village and Brendan gives Cheryl the idea to nut the local Club currently known as The Loft, Cheryl does so and renames it "Chez Chez".
Cheryl is left thrilled when her friend Lynsey turns up in Hollyoaks also but unknown to Cheryl, Lynsey fancies Malachy as well as Cheryl herself but Cheryl is unaware also that Lynsey had been sleeping with Malachy but Cheryl herself gives her employees Rhys and Jacqui McQueen a helping hand in their romance when she sets them up on a date and they begin a relationship.
During all the above Cheryl's brother Brendan is up to dodge business when his seen selling drugs and buying dodge booze but Cheryl is blinded by Brendan's dark side and even brand him as a "Angel" but unaware to Cheryl she is attacked by Brendan however Brendan did not know it was in fact Cheryl he was attacking until afterwards and Malachy even tells Cheryl is was Brendan who was the one who attacked her however Cheryl is disgusted by Malachy's claims and she fires him from the club and even throws him out of the house too. During her time in the hospital, Cheryl is visited by gangster, Danny Houston an old friend of Brendan's and reveals to be the silent partner of Chez Chez. 
Cheryl finishes off the year in a rollercoaster fashion the first being the tragic double deaths of her friends Steph and Malachy who died as a result of a fire started by a desperate Dominic Reilly. Cheryl then also sleeps with Trev Costello. Cheryl then spends weeks telling everyone that she has a boyfriend after all the chaos and its revealed that her boyfriend is Warren Fox who is in fact alive and well.
===2011: Failed Relationships & Brendan's Imprisonment===
Cheryl is seen to really take a liking to Warren however she's unaware that Warren has his eye on Mitzeee Minniver and is furious to discover during a fight between Warren and Brendan that Warren had in fact slept with Mitzeee however Cheryl quickly gets over it and is soon left worried when Brendan is attacked by Ste Hay and is shocked when Brendan reveals that he's gay and has been nasty towards Ste but she comes to terms with it and tells Brendan to be himself weeks later Brendan comes out his gay.
Cheryl finds herself having a feud with fellow business woman, Cindy Longford, and the two are continually always throwing catty remarks and clashing and even one time have a fight later Cheryl worries about her figure and even asks Lynsey to get her some slimming pills and after the sinister serial killer Silas Blissett tempers with them Cheryl is taken to hospital but manages to be okay, Cheryl and Lynsey find a lodger and the two take an instant attraction to him however they manage to scare him of due to how reluctant they are. 
In September 2011, Cheryl is shocked to learn that Brendan has been arrested for the latest series of murders that have been occurring throughout the year after he was found near the body of Rae Wilson. Cheryl does her best to believe Brendan is innocent and visits him a few times but when Lynsey tells her its Silas, Cheryl gets agitated but is soon feeling guilty towards Lynsey after Silas is finally discovered to be the serial killer on top of that Cheryl starts a brief relationship with Gilly but he departs after he comes to the realisation that he raped Jacqui. When Brendan is released he does not return right away this causes Cheryl to clash with Warren who demands to know where Brendan is Cheryl is left delighted and pleased when Brendan finally returns.
===2012: Walker's Revenge & Lynsey's Murder===
After Warren's arrest and enrolling back into college, Cheryl along with Brendan and Lynsey decide to look at 2012 positively however this is left tested when Warren signs over his share of the club to his son, Joel Dexter. Later in May 2012, Brendan's old friend Simon Walker returns and temporarily moves in with Cheryl and Brendan. Cheryl is disgusted with Brendan when he shows little remorse after Joel is stabbed by Sampson and slaps him. 
By July 2012, Cheryl is left heartbroken when Lynsey is found dead by Brendan, Cheryl begs Lynsey to wake up but she is pronounced dead by Doctor Paul Browning and is even further devastated when she quickly discovers that Lynsey was also murdered and due to her grief Cheryl forms another and unlikely friendship with Annalise Appleton. And its later revealed that Paul Browning was Lynsey's killer and Walker purposely watched.
Cheryl gets a glimpse of Brendan's darker side when she walks in on him cutting up the deceased body of Mick Cornus whom was murdered by Walker, Cheryl tells Walker that Brendan has gone too far this time but when the beach house explodes and Brendan is taken to hospital Cheryl forgives him unaware that Brendan murdered their grandmother, Flo Brady. Cheryl discovers from Brendan who Walker really is. A man who blames Brendan for his brothers, Cameron Walker's death and plans to harm Brendan's loved ones which includes Cheryl. Cheryl alone with her family are left looking over their shoulder after Walker flees and avoids getting caught by the police in November 2012.
===2012-2013: Seamus' Arrival, Finding Love & Departure===
Cheryl is delighted when her father, Seamus Brady arrives to be with her for Christmas however she is unaware of the bitterness between her father and Brendan and constantly tells Brendan to make an effort with her father, Cheryl eventually asks her father to live with her to which he agrees too and she does her best to have Seamus and Brendan bond unaware of the history between them. 
Cheryl also finds herself falling for a guy named Nate Tenbury-Newent and starts a relationship with him and even eventually gets engaged to him. By March 2013 after escaping Walker once more Cheryl finally discovers the truth between her father and Brendan thanks to Walker leaving a confession tape of Seamus apologising to Brendan but is heartbroken to discover Seamus sexually assaulted Brendan as a child, later, Cheryl sees Seamus attacking Brendan and having possession of a gun Cheryl fired a bullet in her fathers back killing him. 
Brendan and Cheryl have a heart to heart but Brendan refuses to let Cheryl go to the Police and telling them she killed Seamus so Brendan fires another gun for her to listen and reveals to her everything their father did while they were children, Cheryl is heartbroken for Brendan and he tells her he killed their grandmother but Cheryl comes to understand why eventually Cheryl agrees for Brendan to take the blame for killing Seamus but is unaware of Brendan's suicide attempt and only discovers what Brendan is up too when his halfway through his confession, Cheryl attempts to stop him but he shuts the door and fires a gun Brendan is shot but he survives and after a tearful good bye Cheryl says her goodbyes to Ste and thanks him for loving Brendan and as Brendan is taken to Prison, Cheryl leaves with Nate to start a new life in Derry. 
==Kill Count==
===Murders===
#Seamus Brady, 21st March 2013 - (Self-Defence) - Shot in defence of her brother, Brendan.
===Attempted Murders===
None
== Appendices ==
=== Residences ===
=== Employment History ===
== Background Information ==
*There have been discrepancies regarding Cheryl's birthday:
**In August 2010, Cheryl's DOB was seen as 26th October 1986.
**Cheryl celebrated her 25th birthday in season 3 of Hollyoaks Later, making her DOB 29th October 1985 (as all episodes took place on 29th October 2010).
**In October 2012, Cheryl mentioned that she had met Brendan when he was eight years old and she was six years old. Brendan was born in 1980, giving Cheryl a year of birth of 1982 or 1983.
*Cheryl was portrayed by Lola Hackin in flashback scenes airing in episode 5 of season 5 of Hollyoaks Later.
== Introduction Sequence ==
== Quotes ==
== See Also ==
*List of appearances
*Brady family
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