Duncan James: Younger Hollyoaks fans don’t know I was in Blue

The boy band are hoping to have a musical comeback and gain a whole new fan base.

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Duncan James: Younger Hollyoaks fans don’t know who I was in Blue (Matt Crossick/PA)

Duncan James has shared his amusement over being recognised by younger fans only for his role in Hollyoaks, and not for his career in boy band Blue.

James has reunited with his Blue bandmates to release tell-all book All Rise: Our Story, in which they speak openly about their struggles, highs and lows over the years following their first success in 2001.

However, since 2016 he has appeared as Ryan Knight in the Channel 4 soap, and it has made him famous to a whole new, younger generation, some of whom are unaware of his original career.

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Duncan James in Hollyoaks (Channel 4/PA)

“She was waiting there for autographs, and she was like, ‘Oh there’s Ryan from Hollyoaks!’