Frankie Osborne (also Dean) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Helen Pearson. She made her first on-screen appearance on 9 October 2002. Frankie was once the longest-serving female character in the show. On 9 October 2017, Pearson announced that she would depart the show and Frankie was killed off on 1 November 2017 after suffering a stroke, making her the second member of the Dean family to be killed off since her daughter Steph Cunningham (Carley Stenson) in 2010. She made her final appearance on 27 November 2017 as a ghost to Jack Osborne. Storylines 2002 - 2005 In October 2002 Frankie arrives alongside her family, Johnno, Jake, Debbie, and Craig when they joined Steph, who arrived two years earlier in March 2000. When Johnno is made redundant, the family begin struggling financially and Frankie and Johnno's marriage begins to fall apart. Johnno turns to alcohol, but manages to stop and he and Frankie reconcile. Their marriage soon begins to decline, and Johnno confesses to Frankie that he has been having an affair with 19-year-old Michelle. Frankie is prepared to forgive Johnno until she discovers that Michelle is pregnant with Johnno's baby. She files for divorce and Jake, Debbie and Craig disown him, although Steph decides to keep in contact with him. When Johnno comes back to Hollyoaks, he and Frankie are finally divorced, but Frankie forgives Johnno for his infidelity and the two remain friends. Right after her divorce, she marries Jack Osborne, who had been a widower for five years after the death of his wife Jill Osborne. All of their family attends the wedding, except stepdaughter Ruth, who couldn't attend. 2006 In 2006, Frankie falls pregnant. She is happy about the news although the rest of her family is not. Frankie, however, suffers from a miscarriage early on in her pregnancy. She find this difficult to accept and it takes her some time to move on. The Dog on the Pond, the pub they owned, is destroyed in an explosion. Jack and Frankie are out for a meal when the pub exploded and Frankie and Jack nearly lose Darren, Steph, Craig, and Jake, as they are trapped inside the pub when it explodes and catches fire. While they use the insurance money to rebuild the pub, they stay at a grimy bed and breakfast where the owner constantly treats