Goldie McQueen

Character Profile

Goldine "Goldie" McQueen is the daughter of Breda McQueen and Vinnie, the adoptive half-sister of Sylver McQueen and the mother Hunter and Prince McQueen. She formerly worked as a nail technician at Wham! Glam! Thank You Tan!, but has now been offered a job in the Hollyoaks High School canteen.

Biography

1987-2016: Backstory

Goldie was born in circa 1987 to Breda McQueen and her then-husband Vinnie. She had an adoptive older brother, Sylver, but was raised to believe that they were biologically related. Vinnie was abusive towards Sylver, Goldie and Sylver. In 2000, a teenage Goldie fell pregnant by her dodgy boyfriend Shane Sweeney, and Sylver stood up to Vinnie out of fear that he would harm Goldie. Sylver ended up pushing Vinnie from a balcony and Breda murdered him, letting Sylver go to prison for the crime.

Goldie gave birth to twins Prince and Hunter in May 2001. Shane was an absent father and Goldie - although supported by Breda - struggled to cope with twins at a young age. She decided to call social services and put the twins up for adoption, but later changed her mind and Breda helped her get the twins back. Goldie and Breda kept this secret from the family until Prince's fiancée Olivia Bradshaw found out in 2021.

2016-2018: Arrival and Relationship with Jesse

Goldie arrived in Hollyoaks in November 2016 to see the lifestyle of the 'posher' McQueens. Having managed to convince Myra McQueen to let her stay at 26 Leigh Road, Goldie was soon joined by Prince and Hunter. Shane arrived in the village later in the month and Goldie decided to give him a second chance. However, she soon discovered that he had recruited Prince into helping him with his dodgy antics. Goldie ended up growing close to Jesse Donovan after helping him at his hair salon. However, Jesse and Goldie's relationship was brief as the pair decided to remain friends. After Shane enlisted Cleo McQueen into stealing from Goldie's bank account, Prince burgled 5 Oakdale Drive, Flat 2 to replace the stolen money. Goldie made a false confession to protect Prince and, facing prison as a result, went on the run in July 2017.

Returning to the village in February 2018, Goldie was stunned to learn that Prince was supposedly expecting with Peri Lomax. She discovered that Peri's ultrasound was fake and publicly exposed her in The Dog in the Pond, forcing Peri to admit that she wasn't actually pregnant. After the police learned of her return, Goldie was arrested for going on the run and told Jesse (who offered to wait for her) that she was in love with Shane. However, she told Jesse that she loved him a week later, leaving him conflicted between Goldie and Courtney Campbell. Goldie ended up being released from prison in March 2018.

Unable to choose between the pair, Jesse ended up having relationships with both Goldie and Courtney. As the pair slept together inside 26 Leigh Road, Jesse's oblivious brother Adam Donovan set the house ablaze. The pair managed to escape mostly unharmed. Goldie and Courtney soon discovered that Jesse was seeing them both and got their revenge by tricking him into thinking that they wanted a polyamorous relationship before breaking up with him.

2018-2019: Family Troubles

Breda arrived in the village in June 2018 to ask Goldie to let Sylver - who was set to be released from prison - to stay at 26 Leigh Road. Despite blaming Sylver for Vinnie's death, Goldie eventually came round to the idea, but Myra and her partner Sally St. Claire took more convincing. After Mercedes McQueen kidnapped her son Bobby Costello, Bobby's grandfather Carl kidnapped Goldie in retaliation. Goldie was soon rescued, whilst Carl was later found dead. Following Cleo's break-up with Joel Dexter, Goldie comforted Joel and the pair shared a kiss, but Joel immediately regretted it and left the village afterwards. Hunter also decided to leave the village with Asha Kaur.

As Mercedes prepared to remarry Russ Owen, Goldie ended up revealing to Russ that Mercedes and Sylver had slept together in Magaluf. Russ and Mercedes had a blazing argument and Russ ended up sleeping with Goldie, who blackmailed Russ when he returned to Mercedes. Goldie discovered that she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion, but Myra overheard the conversation and revealed the truth publicly after the wedding. Russ was found dead afterwards and Goldie became prime suspect: especially after Mercedes pointed the finger at her. After facing prison for breaking her bail conditions, Russ's true killer sent an anonymous letter to the police which got Goldie released.

Mercedes quickly moved on from Russ to Sylver: a relationship which Goldie was vehemently opposed to. Mercedes ended up revealing to Goldie that she and Sylver were not biologically related, and she ultimately learned from Breda that Sylver was her adoptive brother. After Joel's return to the village, he reunited with Goldie. Their relationship was initially threatened by his encounters with gangster Liam Donovan, until Goldie learned that he was attempting to help Liam. However, Goldie began to feel that their relationship was stuck and was left upset when Joel refused to leave the church to be with her. Goldie was also upset when Prince - struggling to deal with the death of his wife Lily - decided to leave the village.

2019-2021: Relationship with Joel

Joel managed to find a compromise that would allow him to be with Goldie and remain with the church: he decided to become a vicar and proposed marriage to Goldie, which she accepted. Goldie was left horrified when Joel revealed that Breda knocked him out with a hard-cover bible and began to worry for Breda's mental state. Whilst walking Bronzer in the woods, Bronzer dug up the body of Harry Thompson. After finding Harry's belongings at Breda's old pig farm, Goldie began to believe that Breda was suffering from dementia, which a psychiatrist also suspected.

Goldie ended up growing suspicious of Breda after finding "LL" engraved on Breda's fiancé Jack Osborne's ring, which Breda claimed belonged to her father. Lisa Loveday soon recognised the ring as belonging to her deceased father Louis, who had been murdered. After finding dolls made by Breda in Savage's Emporium, Goldie told Sylver about them, Louis's ring and Breda confessing to Harry's murder. Confronting her at the pig farm, Breda confessed to killing Harry, Louis, Russ, Carl, Vinnie, Glenn Donovan, Mac Nightingale, her own father, and Sylver's biological father Wes. The pair also discovered that Breda was holding both Mercedes and Tony Hutchinson hostage in the pig shed. As Goldie released them, Breda set the farmhouse on fire. As Breda attempted to kill Mercedes, Sylver stabbed Breda through the skull with her knitting needles, killing her.

In September 2020, Goldie received a text with the number "7". In October, shortly after the return of her cousin Theresa, Goldie discovered that the text was from a blackmailer, who blackmailed the McQueens. The blackmailer went around the McQueens with "7 deadly sins" and exposed their secrets, but the blackmailers were identified as Theresa, Seth Costello and Silas Blissett before Goldie could be blackmailed. Silas fled the village after his attempt to kill Mercedes was thwarted by Theresa, whilst Seth left after being threatened with arrest by George Kiss. Goldie later discovered that Joel had been unfaithful with Theresa and broke off their engagement.

2021-: Prince's Return

Prince returned to Hollyoaks in September 2021, introducing Goldie to his fiancée Olivia Bradshaw. Goldie immediately got off on the wrong foot with Olivia, and was upset to learn that the pair were planning to move to New Zealand. After learning that the move was down to Olivia being accepted for a teaching job, she interfered and ruined the opportunity. She also attempted to split Olivia and Prince, to no avail. However, after Goldie confided in Olivia about her struggles raising her twins, the pair began to get along.

Goldie was left devastated when Sylver was killed in the Salon de Thé de Marnie Explosion in January 2022. The family began to fall apart afterwards, with Goldie desperately trying to keep it together: Olivia and Prince continued with the wedding arrangements, whilst the arrival of Silas's daughter Wendy Blissett threatened the stability of Mercedes's relationship with Bobby. Goldie and Olivia's relationship was also destroyed when Olivia began blackmailing Goldie's cousin John Paul McQueen after his alcoholism caused a minibus crash during a Hollyoaks High School trip.

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Background Information

Actress Chelsee Healey revealed that she was joining Hollyoaks in a new role (having previously played a guest role) in July 2016, with character details being officially released later in the month.
Goldie departed the programme in July 2017 as Healey went on maternity leave, returning on-screen in February 2018.

Introduction Sequence

2016-2017: Goldie stands outside Price Slice while getting sprayed with water pistols by Hunter McQueen and Prince McQueen.
2017: Goldie licks an ice-cream and pouts to the camera.
2018: Goldie struts outside Price Slice and gets splashed by a boy on a bike.
2018-2019: Goldie walks with her mother Breda outside Price Slice and gets splashed by a boy on a bike.
2019-2022: Goldie and Cleo McQueen scuffle inside The Dog in the Pond, with Sylver McQueen intercepting to split them up.
2022-: Goldie fights Theresa McQueen over a dress, which Mercedes McQueen snatches.

Quotes

“	If it isn't my favourite cousin! Come here, you big pregzilla!	”
	— First line, to Myra McQueen.