Clara Dexter

Clara Marie Dexter is the daughter of Leela Dexter.
Conceived around the same time of Theresa McQueen's birthday party in the woods earlier in the year, where Leela was raped by husband Joel Dexter's half-brother Abe Fielding, Leela went into labour in November and gave birth at Dee Valley University Hospital with Abe by her side. Leela struggled in the following weeks of caring for Clara alongside Joel, not knowing who the father of her child was. She confided in friend Mercedes McQueen of her fears but was determined that Joel would never find out about her daughter's paternity.
At Mercedes' daughters' christening, Joel caused a scene as Leela had pushed him away and was acting distant. He demanded to know if Leela had cheated on him; a tearful Leela admitted to her husband that she didn't cheat on him, but something happened to her and she wasn't ready to open up. Behind Joel's back, Leela ordered a paternity test, but Abe found it and panicked, so he confronted Leela over who the father of Clara was. Not knowing that it was Abe who raped her, Leela opened up to Abe about how she was raped by an unknown man at Theresa's party. Abe talked Leela out of taking the paternity test to avoid blowing her family apart, but then behind her back took the test to determine whether or not he was Clara's father.
When Leela's eldest daughter, Peri, was also raped by Abe, Leela supported her in reporting the ordeal. At the police station, Leela realised that Abe may have also raped her, as he had called Peri a "good girl" - a phrase which she also heard on the night she was raped.
==List of appearances==
===2024===
No. of episodes: 7
*5th November 2024
*6th November 2024
*20th November 2024
*26th November 2024
*27th November 2024
*2nd December 2024
*3rd December 2024
===2025===
No. of episodes: 1
*7th January 2025
Category:Hollyoaks characters
Category:2024 minor characters
Category:2025 minor characters
Category:2025 births
Category:Lomax family
Category:Fielding family
Category:Residents of 2 Oakdale Drive