‘Hollyoaks’ star Billy Price fears his character, Sid Sumner, could die at the hands of the evil Victor Brothers.
Billy Price as Sid Sumner
The 20-year-old actor stars as Sid in the Channel 4 soap, and has admitted that scenes set to air this week will see his character once again risking his life as he continues to work with drug dealer Victor (Benjamin O’Mahony).
Sid has spent the last few weeks working for Victor in the hopes of gathering evidence to bring him down from the inside, and this week he will take his work a step further by planting a recording device in Victor’s car.
Speaking about the plot, Billy said: "Our masterplan is to get a confession from Victor. Ste (Kieron Richardson) is not up for it, but James (Gregory Finnegan) tells Sid to get back out there.
"They have to get a confession, so they use a listening device. Sid has to plant it inside Victor's car and get him talking. It sounds easier than it actually is, but that's the masterplan!
"Sid is either fearless or he's just stupid. I kind of feel like it might just be that he's stupid! Sid just does it, even though everybody tells him not to do it."
Billy also revealed that although Sid is successful in recording Victor incriminating himself, the villain finds out he’s been betrayed before Sid can get the evidence to the police.
He added: "It's a big old showdown. Ste comes up with a cunning plan to buy Sid some more time. But Sid has to get the evidence and then give the evidence to the police before Victor catches him.
"There's this massive, almost Western face-off where Sid is trying to get the evidence to the police station, Victor is chasing him and Ste is distracting Victor. It's quite tense and time is of the essence."
And Billy is worried the dramatic County Lines plot could end in his character’s death, as the evil Victor has threatened him many times before.
Speaking to Digital Spy, he said: "Over the past year with the County Lines story, Victor has had Sid in the back of a boot, he's tried to put a gun to the back of his head, and he's the reason that he's not got a leg anymore.
"Sid knows that Victor can end his life within a finger-click. He knows that he's got the capability of ending his life, so it's a dangerous game with Victor."
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