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"Former Footballers&amp;#039; Wives actress Phina Oruche has joined the cast of Hollyoaks. The 37-year-old - who played WAG Liberty Baker in the fifth and final series of the ITV football drama - will portray the mother of the soap&amp;#039;s new four-member mixed race family.  Oruche&amp;#039;s screen husband and their two children will arrive in the fictional Chester suburb towards the middle of the year and, according to producer Paul Marquess, are expected to &amp;quot;bring glitz, glamour and great stories&amp;quot; to the programme.  A show source told DS: &amp;quot;Paul has a clear ambition for Hollyoaks - to make it as it&amp;#039;s ever been. He really rated Phina during her time on Footballers&amp;#039; Wives, so knew she was right for the job of heading up the new clan.&amp;quot; Earlier this month, Marquess - who created Footballers&amp;#039; Wives - axed 11 characters from the show and replaced three leading members of the serial&amp;#039;s creative team.  In February, ex-Emmerdale star Sheree Murphy joined as Anita Roy&amp;#039;s long-lost mother Eva. Further, Marquess has since lured Alex Carter back for an initial six months as Lee Hunter. Oruche - who finished eighth during the sixth run of ITV1 jungle reality show I&amp;#039;m A Celebrity\u2026 Get Me Out Of Here! - is due to begin filming at the soap&amp;#039;s home in Liverpool within the next few weeks. &amp;gt; Z\u00F6e Lucker joins &amp;#039;EastEnders&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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