Esther Bloom

Esther Bloom is the ex-wife of Kim Butterfield, the daughter of Brian Bloom and the granddaughter of Frankie Osborne.
Esther's life in Hollyoaks is more than full of drama, beginning when she first arrived as the estranged granddaughter of Frankie Osborne. As well as this, Esther was seen to be openly gay but her first big storyline came in 2012 being bullied by Maddie Morrison and then by Sinead O'Connor and Ruby Button leading to a suicide attempt. Esther has had her fair share of relationships with likes of Tilly Evans, Kim Butterfield and even Grace Black for a brief period.
In 2014, Esther opted to be an unlikely surrogate for local gangsters Trevor Royle and Grace Black. Later on, she went into labour 4 weeks early and gave birth to a baby boy named Curtis Royle. 
Esther ordered the death of Eva Falco in January 2017 after she was accidentally shot by Eva a bullet that was meant for Jack Osborne. 
By April 2018 after many heartaches and dramas. Esther decided to depart with one of her closet friends in Ruby Button and in doing so, say an emotional farewell to Grace who she refers to as her "Guardian Angel".
== Biography ==
=== 2011: Arrival ===
Esther arrives in Hollyoaks village in order to look for her fathers biological mother Frankie Osborne in aid for a new family life. After Esther tracks Frankie down in January 2011, she breaks into the Osborne family home and spends a few days living in the attic spying on the family. However, she gets attacked when she temporarily leaves the attic by a young scared Tom Cunningham with a baseball bat, thinking Esther was a burglar. This hospitalises Esther and when Esther comes round she tells a stunned Frankie that she is her granddaughter. After this Esther also tells Frankie that Brian has passed away and knew of Frankie being his biological mother. Frankie allows her to move in. 
Esther seems to be settling in well but after many run ins with Frankie's husband, Jack and her son in law Gilly Roach, Esther reverts to blackmail. She tells Jack and Gilly that if they do not allow her to stay she will tell the police that it was in fact Tom whom attacked her, as Jack told the police it was him. This leads Tom to finally confess to the police and face court. Realising how far she's gone, Esther does her best to defend Tom. However, despite Esther's pleas Tom is still found guilty. During her arrival, Esther finds friends in Ricky Campbell, Duncan and Ruby Button. 
=== 2011-2012: Bullying & Meeting Tilly ===
Although Esther originally made friends with Ruby, she soon quickly found out what her true motives were when Esther was drawn into a game of 'kisses'. Esther reveals to Ruby that she is in fact lesbian, and to Esther's surprise Ruby responds by kissing her. Ricky would join in, kissing Esther and Ruby to which Ruby asks him who he thinks is the best kisser out the two of them. Esther faces that she has to reject Ricky's friend, Duncan Button, who fancies her as a joke and an attempt to get Duncan to back off. Esther kisses a stunned Seth Costello which was seen and filmed by Ruby whom uploaded the video to the internet. This would later leave Esther feeling a load of guilt when the video of her and Seth upsets him, but refused to kiss him again. 
In order to get Ruby to back off asking her about a girlfriend, Esther tells Ruby a lie that she has a girlfriend, Sinead O'Connor, and for revenge on Esther lying Sinead and Ruby make Esther think that Jason Costello fancies Esther. However, when Esther expresses he interest in Jason, Jason tells her he likes men, leaving Esther feeling embarrassed. Jason then accuses both Sinead and Ruby of bullying her. Esther is the target of more pranks from Sinead and Ruby, one of which where Ruby writes a love letter to Amy Barnes supposedly from Esther confessing her feeling. Although this backfires when Esther finds out and falls out with Ruby. However, after Ruby apologises, Esther soon forgives her. 
Esther soon meets a young student woman named Tilly Evans and is delighted to discover that Tilly is also a lesbian. The pair met while Esther was on holiday to Abersoch along with Sinead, Ruby and Sinead's boyfriend, Bart McQueen. Esther begins to fall for Tilly and they begin something that resembles a relationship. However they both end it when Esther has to leave, both unaware they are soon to be living in the same village. Later Esther is shocked to discover Tilly is attending Hollyoaks Community College, but is left disappointed when Tilly tells her that she does not want a relationship with her. This leaves Esther more than upset. However Esther is even more upset when she bumps into Tilly at a gay bar and Tilly tries to kiss Esther. Esther forgives Tilly but not before letting her know that she does not at all want to be used. Esther also finds out about Tilly and Jen Gilmore, but tells everyone she started the rumour to keep it secret. 
Esther becomes quite close friends with college student, George Smith, going to London to do a placement on a magazine which goes well. Although when Esther rips a one of a kind designer piece after borrowing it, she gets sent home for the day. The pair argue in the hotel room which leaves Esther in tears but they help each other and reconcile on the last day. Esther gets offered a feature which she's very pleased about. 
When Esther meets with another new student, Maddie Morrison, the two do not get along too well. Meanwhile, Ruby is smitten, eager to please and Esther ends up trying her best to be nice despite being left out. Maddie is seen being cold towards Esther every time she's around her, excluding her as best she can. 
This continues when Esther shows up to Abersoch, therefore Maddie makes it very obvious that she's not really wanted in sly comments. When on the beach, Esther hears screaming and warns off a man attacking Maddie who is thankful. Maddie apologises for judging Esther too soon and compliments her, which prompts Esther to kiss Maddie who pulls away. Esther apologises for ruining things but Maddie seems to be okay with it. Until Maddie's father, Ed Morrison, shows up with another woman and Maddie has to put on a brave face and gets annoyed by Esther. When returning to Hollyoaks, Esther bumps into Tilly who left early and tells her that she's worried about Maddie. When Tilly mentions Esther told her to Maddie she puts on a brave face but isn't at all happy that Esther has been talking about her. Esther leaves College Coffee after Ruby overhears Jono confessing he cheated, and Maddie walks in saying it was about time. Esther and Maddie exchange looks and when Esther is gone, Maddie tells Sinead, Bart, Jono, Neil and Tilly that Esther tried to kiss her. Maddie makes it out as no big deal but says Esther needs to chill out. 
On Esther's results day, Sinead films Esther impersonating Maddie mockingly who was due home from holiday in San Tropez. Tilly tells Esther that she was still with Jen and was planning to leave to go travelling with her. Meanwhile, Maddie sees the video of Esther mocking her, and asks her why she didn't do an impression of everyone else. Esther tells Maddie that she feels like she doesn't really like her. Maddie shows a cake reading 'Congratulations Esther', making her look bad for questioning Maddie in front of everyone so she storms out. 
On her first day of college, Maddie makes a comment about Esther having facial hair after the kiss attempt is jokingly brought up. This leads to people laughing at her and someone drawing facial hair on a picture of Esther. She bunks off the rest of the day and goes home, arguing with Jack who has a heart attack after she storms out. 
Soon after the bullying begins to ramp up against Esther, taunting her at any given opportunity. Esther snaps after finding razors in her locker, confronting Maddie as the culprit. Esther punches Maddie after she gaslights her and mockingly said Esther must feel bad for Jack's heart attack, which nearly killed him. Esther is confronted by Phoebe McQueen, who realises that she is being bullied and also confronts Maddie. 
Esther ends up with a rash due to an allergic reaction to raspberries. Maddie and Sinead enter the college bathroom, cornering her to take pictures as Maddie's uncles 'a doctor'. Esther is then left shocked when Phoebe attacks Maddie in the corridor after witnessing the situation. Esther and Phoebe bunk off together, bonding over their dislike for Maddie. Frankie and Jacqui McQueen find out and tell Esther and Phoebe they cannot see each other anymore. Maddie tries to be friends with Phoebe and tells her to be careful of Esther in case she gets the wrong idea or tries kissing Phoebe too. 
Both of Esther's supposed friends, Sinead and Ruby, begin to bully Esther alongside Maddie. Esther and George are a part of a fashion show which goes horribly wrong when Esther has a fall on stage, causing her dress to rip and becoming exposed to the crowd. People take videos and it gets posted online. Phoebe acts in revenge by stealing Maddie, Sinead and Ruby's clothes so they have to use lost property, being caught on film by laughing college students. Esther and Phoebe watch back the footage laughing, not knowing Ruby's there listening. Maddie, Sinead and Ruby start speaking to Esther, using a fake account with the name Rosie and plan to meet up at night. Sinead calls Esther while she's waiting, pretending to be Rosie, saying she's frightened, being followed and then screams down the phone. A frightened Esther runs to try and help, finding a limp body next to one of the cars. Esther gasps and steps away, she turns and is frightened by Bart dressed in all black behind her. Ruby stands up, being the one pretending to be a body, laughing at Esther. Maddie is seen filming, while Sinead, Neil, Bart and Jono are all laughing alongside. Taking seconds for them all to notice Esther had wet herself, being caught on film. 
After Esther discovers that Ruby plans to marry her boyfriend, Jono, she enlists Bart to chase them down and stop them. However Bart was under the influence of marijuana, driving recklessly and they chase Maddie in a race like style. This leads to a fatal crash at the wedding venue of Ste Hay and Doug Carter. The crash results in the deaths of Maddie, Neil Cooper, Rhys Ashworth and later Jono. 
=== 2012-2013: Suicide Attempt & Jade Hedy ===
After the crash and the amount of deaths, Esther faces the blame from both Sinead and Ruby, as well as others in her peers. As a result, they all begin to increase the bullying towards Esther. It gets to the point where Esther feels like everything and everyone is against her. Having enough by 2013, Esther decides to commit suicide and attempts to do so by taking an overdose with alcohol in the folly. Despite the attempt, Esther wakes up in the morning although she has sustained serious organ damage. Esther bumps into George Smith who takes her home, despite her protests. Frankie and Jack scold Esther, thinking she'd stayed out drinking to rebel against them. While Frankie is shouting, Esther looks vacant and says nothing before before being sick. Frankie rummages in Esther's bag, finding a bottle of medication. Frankie goes to tell Jack who is with Esther while she's being sick, and when confronted Esther falls unconscious. 
This leads to Esther being rushed to hospital for an emergency liver transplant surgery. When Esther awakens Ruby is still treating her awfully, causing Esther to break down, pulling out her IVS, stating she still wants to die. Esther's transplant gets delayed after the helicopter had to make an unscheduled landing, 50 miles away, due to a storm. As Esther's already defying the odds, she asks for Dylan to come and record a video where she states she doesn't want to die anymore and forgives Maddie, Sinead and Ruby. Ruby takes responsibility and confesses to bullying Esther to Nancy, while Sinead lies to Diane saying she had nothing to do with it. Ruby shows the video Esther recorded, in the Dog, outing Sinead as well in front of both family as well as everyone else, including Patrick Blake. Esther forgives Ruby for all the abuse as she feels Ruby is truly sorry this time round. 
After the suicide attempt, things start to look up for Esther for sometime, She finally starts a relationship with Tilly, but its again short lived as Frankie ordered Tilly to break up with Esther. They would again later rekindle their relationship after being brought together during a play, the Wizard of Oz, where Esther had written a heartfelt speech towards Tilly. This won Tilly round and their relationship goes well for sometime. 
They later meet a girl named Jade Hedy, unknown to them Jade is in fact the sister of the guy whose liver was given to Esther earlier in the year. They end up going away to Jade's house along with their friends, Holly Cunningham and Callum Kane. However Esther discovers Jade's true intentions that she wants to cut out Esther's liver. She murders Callum and another guy whom they meet named Wes Anderson. 
Esther, Tilly as well Holly are shocked that Jade has killed two people and wants Esther dead. The three girls do their best to escape but Jade manages to catch up with them and tries to stab Esther. Tilly attempts to stop her which results in a struggle between Esther, Tilly and Jade. Jade ends up falling on her own knife and slowly dies with Esther, Tilly and Holly watching. 
=== 2014-2015: Surrogacy & Relationship with Kim Butterfield ===
By January 2014, Esther breaks up with Tilly who leaves Hollyoaks with Tilly falling in love with Chloe Chance instead. 
A mostly quiet year for Esther up until September 2014, when Esther finds a large sum of cash of £50,000 money that was left there by Trevor Royle in an attempt to pay off Big Bob. However, despite finding out that the money belongs to Trevor, who is the local gangster, Esther still takes the money. Esther does this with the help of her friend, George Smith, whom at first was against the idea of taking money from Trevor. Esther invests the money into a business and later opens a bistro in which she names Esther's Magic Bean. Esther is left worried when she discovers that Grace Black is wanting to find out whom took the money and seems to be sniffing around Esther's business. After Grace tells Esther she suspects her, she forgets her change. This leads Esther to take it to The Loft, a club which Trevor and Grace co-own, however Big Bob has Esther kidnapped mistaking her for Grace. This leads to Trevor along with Grace and their silent partner, Freddie Roscoe, to track down Esther and save her. However Esther escapes and Big Bob manages to get Grace for real this time. Big Bob hold Grace at gun point which lead Esther to knock him out with a plank of wood, saving Grace.
After being kidnapped by Big Bob and saving Grace, Esther is approached by Grace afterwards as she wants to thank Esther for help saving her. However things take an awkward turn when Grace notices the bag the stolen £50,000 was in. This leads Esther to sign over the business to Grace, but is employed back by Grace in order to work shifts to pay the rest of the debt off. In October 2014, Esther meets new student nurse, Kim Butterfield, and is later put in a life-threatening situation when Big Bob takes the hospital hostage for a siege. During which Esther has an apoplectic fit. This leads Kim to save her life, along with Grace. They are all later set free with Big Bob being killed after being shot during a struggle with Cameron Campbell. 
Esther begins to grow closer with both Grace and Kim. After finding out Grace can't carry any children of her own Esther puts herself forward to be a surrogate for her and Trevor. This infuriates Frankie who is against Esther being a surrogate for two high ranking criminals, like Trevor and Grace, as well as this Esther begins a relationship with Kim. Esther is later given an ultimatum by Frankie either choose not to be the surrogate for Grace or move out. Esther chooses to be the surrogate for Grace causing Frankie to throw her out. This leads Esther to move in with Trevor and Grace for the rest of the surrogacy. Esther briefly decides against the surrogacy, when Grace is out to kill Freddie for him murdering her father Fraser Black. However Trevor manages to talk round both Esther and Grace.
By 2015, Esther is unaware that Kim harbours an obsession over Grace and finds herself in the middle of both Grace and Kim, constantly at each other's throats. Grace demands for Kim to back off and not spill anything about the shooting of Phoebe. Esther is left unaware that Grace begins to sleep with Kim to keep her quiet. Esther is later spiked by Kim with labour inducing pills. While with Sinead after Trevor's car broke down, Esther gives birth to a baby boy, they name Curtis, but then she haemorrhages in the back of car. Esther is taken to hospital where she tells both Trevor and Grace that she has no intention in giving Curtis to them as she feels too emotionally attached to him. Many brief confrontations between Esther, Trevor and Grace along with Jack and Frankie who are supporting Esther occur. 
Esther is later attacked by The Gloved Hand Killer while in hospital and goes into a cardiac arrest, not from the potassium chloride as the drip attached to Esther fell, but to another haemorrhage. She managed to be saved and Esther leads both Trevor and Grace to believe that she is going to hand over Curtis. However she plans to escape with Kim, Grace finds this out and Esther along with Kim is chased down by Trevor and Grace in their car. A huge car chase happens which leads to a crash after Kim collides with a police van transporting Trevor's son, Dylan Jenkins, inside, Dylan is later murdered by the Gloved Hand Killer. 
While in hospital again, Esther finally discovers the obsession Kim has been having towards Grace and that they had slept together. This leads Esther to quickly end things with Kim and strike a deal with Trevor for them to co-parent Curtis, but only if Trevor gets rid of Grace. However, in October 2015, Trevor is accused if being the glove hand killer after being set up by Kim and the real culprit for the killings, Lindsey Butterfield, her sister by dumping Freddie's 'corpse' in the boot of Trevor's car. Esther allows Grace back in Curtis' life after realising that Grace really loves Curtis, and therefore allows Grace to co-parent with her. With Esther spending more time with Grace she soon develops feelings for Grace. However Esther is left disheartened when Grace sleeps with Darren Osborne. 
=== 2016-2018: Family & Relationship Troubles ===
Esther finds herself clashing with Trevor after his release in January 2016 and is later attacked by Lindsey whom witnessed the two argue. Esther is injected with Potassium Chloride and later reports Trevor to the Police believing he was the culprit however Esther is left shocked when Kim is arrested for the Hospital killings instead however Esther along with Mercedes McQueen mange to connect the dots and find out that Lindsey is in fact the killer they attempt to bring Lindsey down with proof but things take a sinister turn for Esther when Frankie is kidnapped by Lindsey and threatens to kill Frankie if Esther does not comply and help Lindsey escape and seeing no choice Esther helps Lindsey escape and is delight when Kim is released and they both get back together and decide that they want to be married however both the Osborne's as well as Grace are against the idea however they marry despite everyone's pleas.
In May 2016, after the death of Trevor, seeing how much Grace is struggling with bone of her family Esther contacts her three brothers Adam, Liam and Jesse Donovan in aid to get them to support a grieving Grace. In November 2016, Esther along with the rest of the Osborne's go on the run from a revengeful Eva Falco whom blames Jack for her fathers death after the return in December 2016, Esther is accidentally shot in the head by Eva which was meant for Jack this leaves Esther in a life-threatening condition although Esther survived she suffered from life-threatening injuries and took her moods out on those around her later Esther ordered Grace to kill Eva by January 2017 in which Grace does so by shooting Eva dead. Throughout 2017, Esther finds herself more in a supporting role around her loved ones she befriends Farrah Maalik and helps Sienna Blake escape her fiancée Warren Fox. Esther also attends the funeral of Jade Albright who had been adopted into her family and sadly Esther discovers her grandmother Frank has passed away in November 2017 which devastates her and the rest of the Osborne's.
Esther also finds herself briefly clashing with both Darcy Wilde and Glenn Donovan. Esther clashed with Darcy as she knew Darcy was taking advantage of a grieving Jack in order to retrieve his money and Esther was right and this was proven when Esther herself was caught in Darcy's crossfire when she attempted to poison Jack but Esther accidentally drank it and this lead her to nearly die and Esther clashes with Glenn over Glenn's jealousy of Esther's and Grace's close sisterly bond not long after her ordeals by April 2018, Esther decides to leave Hollyoaks after spending seven years of her life there she departs after saying an emotional farewell to Grace and her loved ones. Esther departs with Ruby to start a new life else where. 
After Trevor is released in January 2016, Esther clashes with him over Curtis and is later attacked when injected by Potassium Chloride by Lindsey whom witnessed them after the attack Esther suspects Trevor however his not charged and Kim is later her left set up by her own sister however Esther does not believe Kim is capable of taking multiple lives and Esther along with Mercedes McQueen discover that the killer is in fact Lindsey but things take a sinister turn for Esther when Lindsey kidnaps Frankie and threatens to kill Frankie if Esther does not help her seeing no choice Esther does and that leads Lindsey to go on the run working with fellow serial killer Silas Blissett whom later kills Lindsey. Esther is delighted when Kim is cleared and released.
== Appendices ==
=== Residences ===
=== Employment History ===
== Other Information ==
*Esther is allergic to raspberries.
== Background Information ==
== Introduction Sequence ==
*2011-2015: Esther separates a line of clothes and appears between them.
*2015: Esther and Phoebe try on clothes.
*2015-2016: Esther plays a video game with Frankie, Jack and Charlie on a sofa, she loses, she then smiles at the camera with a pixel in her hand.
*2016: Esther plays table football with Frankie, Jack and Charlie in a games room, she wins.
*2017-2018: Esther is playing table football with Jack, Charlie and Oscar. She and Charlie cheer as they win.
== Quotes ==
== See Also ==
*List of appearances
== Gallery ==
Esther.jpg|Promotional image
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