Hollyoaks fans confused as Felix makes epic blunder amid explosion

Hollyoaks fans were left confused by one character's response to the devastating explosion on Tuesday night's episode.

The soap’s hour-long special left a number of characters’ lives hanging in the balance after the Salon De The cafe was dramatically blown to pieces.

The special edition of the Channel 4 soap was nothing short of spectacular, but as the dust settled on the disaster, characters were left scrabbling for help.

In the chaos after the explosion, Felix (Richard Blackwood) screamed for an ambulance before picking up the phone to call the emergency services to rush to the scene.

Standing outside the burning rubble of the cafe, Felix shouts down the phone: “There are people trapped in there. Lots of people.”

“Could you hurry? I need the police, ambulance, fire brigade,” he said.

But fans were quick to note that Felix’s call might not have been necessary - since the cafe is neighbouring a hospital.

One fan tweeted: “Wait, isn’t the hospital right next to the salon? Where's the ambulance? #Hollyoaks #HollyoaksOutOfTime”

Another weighed in writing: “Phone for an ambulance? It’s right next door to a bloody hospital #HollyoaksOutOfTime #Hollyoaks”

A third said: “Felix phoning for an ambulance while he’s STANDING IN FRONT OF A HOSPITAL!

“He wouldn’t even need to be inside to alert them: THE HOSPITAL IS NEXT TO THE CAFE!!!”

Another fan said the soap might have lost out on the “realism” with the blunder.

They wrote: “#Hollyoaks makes me laugh. The hospital is around the corner from the shops but it's "Call an ambulance" anytime anything happens in or by the shops.

On the scene of the explosion, Felix managed to chip away at the wall from the outside to free Martine and Cleo.

The explosion has claimed one life so far - after Sylver McQueen scrabbled to save his stepson Bobby, only for the troubled 10-year-old to leave him in the burning wreckage.

Bobby was meant to alert those outside the building that Sylver was trapped, but he lied he had not seen him before the soap hinted at a sinister twist linked to Bobby's serial killer great-grandfather, Silas Blissett.

Sylver's death was confirmed when the wreckage exploded with him and two others still trapped inside, as his partner Mercedes howled in grief outside.

Meanwhile, Bobby was seen crying before he revealed a smirk at what he had secretly done to his stepdad.

But the episode ended on a cliffhanger, with Celeste Faroe and Juliet Nightingale’s lives hanging in the balance.

Hollyoaks airs weeknights at 6:30pm on Channel 4, with the next episode on E4 at 7pm.