EX-HOLLYOAKS star Ariana Fraval has launched an innovative new dog poo bag business after leaving the Channel 4 soap.
The pooch-loving actress, who is married to soap star Gregory Finnegan, 44, spent more than 12 months creating the perfect environmentally-friendly poo bags, and the result is Hot Pink Poo.
Announcing the product on Instagram, Ariana wrote: “I’m SO delighted to announce that after a year of designing the perfect nappy and dog poo waste bag, which is 100% environmentally friendly, compostable, plastic free, non toxic naturally scented, large, thick and durable with handles @hot.pink.poo pink bags making a nasty job just a little bit better and brighter.”
The bags are now available to buy on Amazon and Ariana has declared them the “most eco-friendly and best looking poo bag on the market”.
It’s all a big departure from her time as DI Naomi Cohen, who appeared sporadically in Hollyoaks between 2019 and 2023.
Among the crimes she was tasked with investigating were Harry Thompson’s murder, Mercedes McQueen’s shooting and Stuart Sumner’s death.
While viewers enjoyed her character on the show, they also poked fun at the amount of arrests she made.
One person wrote on Facebook: “She literally just arrests everyone any chance she get surely the amount of non convictions and releases now her job would be on the line…”
Another said: “You’d think she would learn by now.. how many mistakes has she made.”
Ariana’s husband Gregory played James Nightingale in the soap for nearly a decade but was axed last year in a big shake-up.
His exit played out in a big time jump plot line that saw the show leap forward a year into the future after a devastating car bomb explosion.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, the dad-of-three, revealed how he initially held it together and even thanked bosses for his time on the show after he was told of their decision.
But when the reality set in that he was a “dead man walking” on set, emotion got the better of him and he burst into tears.
He said: “News did go round relatively quickly. Someone put it on a group that they were going, so I did too.
“People seemed shocked which was nice in it’s own way but at the same time quite depressing when people are coming up to you saying ‘I can’t believe it, that’s ridiculous’ you’re like, okay, I’ve dealt with it.
“Everyone was very kind in both the cast and crew. It wasn’t much fun going in when you know you’re a dead man walking.”
It was a conversation with co-star Alex Fletcher that really made him bawl.
“Lovely Alex Fletcher just stared at me, then she started crying and I started crying,” he said. “I was like, ‘Fletch you’ve got to stop, because I haven’t cried at all, and this was weeks after it had happened but she just completely broke me, and then I was bawling.
“But it’s good to get it out. People dealt with it in different ways, a lot of people didn’t say anything for a while because they didn’t know what to say, they keep their jobs.
“There’s no ill feeling, it’s no-ones fault, the more upfront people were the easier I found to deal with it.”