Jennifer Metcalfe "can’t wait" to return to ‘Hollyoaks’.
The 35-year-old actress is currently on a break from the soap after giving birth to son Daye, her first child with partner Greg Lake, six months ago but she’s looking forward to reprising her role a Mercedes McQueen later this year.
She said: "I’m really excited [to go back]. I can’t wait."
Jennifer admits her life has changed hugely since she became a parent and she’s learnt so much in the short period of time.
She said: "It’s only been six and a half months, but it feels like a lifetime ago.
"The amount I’ve learnt in that time has just been ridiculous. Each week is a new challenge that you have to overcome and then you feel really proud, and then the next week there’s something else."
And the brunette beauty thinks Daye has made her and former ‘Geordie Shore’ star Greg "live a little more".
She explained: "We were a weekend couple for four-and-a-half years.
"He’d come to Liverpool, we’d go out for food, nap all day, watch films and then he’d go home [to Newcastle]. But now, when Daye wakes up, there’s no choice to stay in bed – he dictates the day. Now we see more people, we go to more places.
"Daye’s probably making us live a little more."
Jennifer thinks she and Greg will get married eventually, but doesn’t think their nuptials will be a lavish occasion.
Asked if they’ll wed, she told OK! magazine: "I think we probably will, eventually.
"For Greg and me, it would be like, ‘Should we? Do we fancy a party? Go on then, we should probably just get married.’
"It’d be really low key, probably just our close friends and family."
Jennifer Metcalfe can’t wait to return to Hollyoaks
