I decided to profile Olly Rhodes (no relation to Robert Rhodes) based on this photo on the teen idol site: black and white, grinning shyly at his boyfriend. Olly is either gay in real life or is playing a gay character.
Olly grew up in Scarborough, a seaside town in Yorkshire, and graduated from the Pendleton School of Theater (like a secondary school in the U.S.), in 2021.
He moved directly into the role of Joseph Holmes on the soap Hollyoakes (2021-22). His parents discover that he is having a secret romance with his foster sister, Vicky, so they send her away -- to Hollyoakes. Joseph follows, to continue abusing Vicky and terrorize her good buddy, DeMarcus, presuming that they are secetly dating.
He shows his bare bum in his first on-screen role.
Later he murders police officer Saul Reeves (Chris Charles, left), and frames DeMarcus to get him out of the way. But he kept Saul's ring, which leads to his arrest and confession. He leaves the series crying in his jail cell.
After guest spots in The Last Kingdom and All Creatures Great and Small, Olly was cast in a recurring role on Waterloo Road (2024-25). He plays headmaster's son Billy Savage, who is bedeviled by the bully and child abuse survivor Schuey (Zak Sutcliffe, right). Don't worry, Olly states that they became good friends off-camera.
Departures (2025) sounds like one of those "dying of AIDS" tearjerkers from the 1980s, but the title refers to the departures gate at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, where Benji and Jake (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, David Tag) meet and fall in love.
Olly plays the teenage Benji. The trailer shows him kissing his boyfriend, but it goes by too fast to get a screenshot.
Later he murders police officer Saul Reeves (Chris Charles, left), and frames DeMarcus to get him out of the way. But he kept Saul's ring, which leads to his arrest and confession. He leaves the series crying in his jail cell.
After guest spots in The Last Kingdom and All Creatures Great and Small, Olly was cast in a recurring role on Waterloo Road (2024-25). He plays headmaster's son Billy Savage, who is bedeviled by the bully and child abuse survivor Schuey (Zak Sutcliffe, right). Don't worry, Olly states that they became good friends off-camera.
After numerous incidents, Billy sets a wire trap across a road, so Schuey will be thrown off his bike and humiliated. But he accidentally catches -- and kills -- Schuey's non-bullying sidekick Boz.
Dad plants evidence in Schuey's locker so he'll be blamed for the murder, but eventually he and Billy are both arrested, and leave the series.
Departures (2025) sounds like one of those "dying of AIDS" tearjerkers from the 1980s, but the title refers to the departures gate at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, where Benji and Jake (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, David Tag) meet and fall in love.
Olly plays the teenage Benji. The trailer shows him kissing his boyfriend, but it goes by too fast to get a screenshot.
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