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Soap stars you didn't know are actually related in real life – from EastEnders legends to Emmerdale actors
Plenty of TV characters find out they're related - but it's happening away from the cameras too...
Jamie, of course, has played Jay Brown on EastEnders since 2006 - in fact, it's a role he's juggling alongside Strictly rehearsals - while Charlie joined in 2018 as Mel Owen's son, Hunter, but was bumped off a year later. Joe Swash became a household name long before he was Mr Stacey Solomon, playing Mickey Miller in EastEnders - and anyone with a passing knowledge of how surnames work could probably figure out these two were related. And if that wasn't enough soap connections, Jamie was previously the partner of Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh and the pair have a daughter called Polly
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