FORMER Hollyoaks star Paul Danan has always been refreshingly open about the highs and lows he experience on the showbiz merry-go-round. The actor made his name on Hollyoaks in the 90s before a stint on Celebrity Love Island in the early noughties made him one of Britain’s most recognisable faces. 4 Paul in a recent interview, the actor now runs workshops to help people with mental health problems Credit: The Dozen With Liam Tuffs 4 Paul Danan during his nineties heyday as Sol Patrick on Hollyoaks Credit: PA:Press Association But in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, Paul fell upon hard times, developing a drug addiction, as well as spells in rehab, as he struggled to come to terms with the rejection and the difficulty of making ends meet.
Now in an interview with Mail Online: the 46-yea- old admitted that he even turned to fixing phone screens, to keep body and soul together. He said: “I worked in a place called Smashed It, which is where if you drop your Iphone and the screen smashes then we’ll fix it for you. I was working there for a bit, probably about 10 years ago and that was just to get a bit of money on the side.
” Having trained as an actor at the Italia Conti Theatre School, Paul played Sol Patrick in the Channel 4 soap from 1997 to 2001. read more about NEW ADVENTURE Love Island star Paul Danan in surprising new career 22 years after TV 'so lost' Paul Danan devastated after pregnant Hollyoaks co-star dies in fatal car crash Then at the height of his popularity.
