Paul Danan’s most memorable TV moments from CBB chaos to Love island appearance
CELEBRITY Love Island and Hollyoaks star Paul Danan has died at the age of 46.
The TV and social media star’s death was announced on Instagram this morning, with tributes now flooding in.
Actor Paul was perhaps best-known for playing the role of Sol Patrick i Hollyoaks between 1997 and 2001.
In 2005, the late star kick-started his reality TV career when he appeared in the first series of ITV‘s Celebrity Love Island.
And since his first reality TV stint, Paul went on to star on many shows and gave audiences many memorable moments.
His first memorable moment on TV was when Sol went to prison in Hollyoaks.
In the soap, Paul’s character of Sol was known for his bad reputation.
Sol was the adoptive son of Jill Patrick and arrived in the village around the same time as his siblings Gina and Kate.
In 1999, Sol was sentenced to four weeks behind bars for dangerous driving, which nearly killed his adoptive mother Jill.
His reality career then began when Paul appeared on Celebrity Love Island, not once, but twice.
Although he appeared on the show in 2005, he returned a year later, too.
Paul returned for the second series in 2006, with the likes of Calum Best, Brendan Cole, Shane Lynch and Alicia Duvall also starring in the series.
Paul then continued his reality career when he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, where he set off the fire alarm.
In 2017 when Paul appeared on the iconic reality show, former Hollyoaks star, he was accused of deliberately setting off the fire alarm.
He seemingly mistook the fire alarm for the Diary Room button, causing sirens to ring out around the house.
He was on season 20 of Celebrity Big Brother and was the fifth person to be evicted.
As well as Paul, there were several other famous faces on the show, which included the late Sarah Harding, Sam Thompson, Sandi Bogle, Amelia Lily, and Helen Lederer.
He then went on to appear on Celebrity Coach Trip alongside the likes of Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph three years ago.
In 2022, he said the series was so “brutal” that he needed therapy after being booted off.
Paul said that being in Portugal for the trip after two years of the pandemic was “like a drug”.
He said of getting booted off the show: “I had to get a bit of counselling. It taps into a lot of stuff – like rejection. It’s brutal.”
The actor then went on to appear on The Jeremy Kyle Show in 2019, where he candidly spoke about substance addiction.
While on the show he spoke about how he was “choking on his last breaths” when he snorted cocaine.
Living with his parents at the time after leaving rehab, Paul recalled how he met with a drug dealer instead of attending a meeting.
He revealed he had bought some cocaine but experienced a scary moment when he went to bed, before finding out he hadn’t bought cocaine, but had instead been given heroin.
Speaking to Jeremy on the show, he said: “My mum came into the bedroom and heard me making these noises.
“She knew it wasn’t quite snoring but it was me choking on my last breaths. I was gagging basically. I was overdosing.
“They found me in my bed and they didn’t know what was going on. They didn’t think I’d taken anything because I’d just come back from rehab.”