A soap favourite who appeared on Hollyoaks during the noughties looks unrecognisable over 21 years since appearing on the Channel 4 drama...
After joining Hollyoaks to play Debbie Dean in 2002, Jodi Albert, who is now 41, made three appearances in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women list at the height of her fame, before she stepped away from the limelight and married a member of Westlife. Jodi starred in Casualty and in British film Popcorn, before tying the knot with boyband singer Kian Egan in 2009, with the former actress giving an insight into their lives on Instagram . Jodi and Kian have three children together and live near the coast in Ireland, a far cry from Jodi winning Sexiest Female at the British Soap Awards in 2005.
Jodi describes herself as a "London born/beach girl now. Raising three little wildlings with my love Kian Egan," in her Instagram bio, with her page having more than 147,000 followers. With the former actress not stepping out in the spotlight as much now, she spoke about how she enjoys a quiet life in the Irish countryside when appearing on RTE Irish radio station in 2016: "As I got older and we had children I just really wanted to be part of a community.
” Jodi, who has also appeared as a member of the Irish girl band Wonderland, has also shared tragic news with her followers when, in 2022, she revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage. It was her second miscarriage within four years and she revealed her "painful loss" after losing her baby at nine weeks. I.