Actor Quentin Jones, greatest identified for starring as physics lecturer Roger Kiddle in Phil Redmond’s TV cleaning soap opera Hollyoaks, is the brand new proprietor of No. 98 Boutique Hotel at 98 The Esplanade in Weymouth.
The leasehold was offered for £549,950 to Mr Jones and his accomplice Claudine Phelps.
Speaking of the sale, Sue Coughlan of Lawrence Wright, the specialist resort agent who organized the sale, mentioned: “This is the third time I’ve offered this enterprise previously 25 years and I’m happy to have proven such a top quality enterprise to Quentin as I do know that by his Hollywood contacts new friends to Weymouth will come and take pleasure in all that the resort has to supply.
“Since the new year, a number of guest houses and catering businesses had gone under offer in Weymouth showing a renewal of confidence and realisation that the increase in business rates due next month will not affect small businesses due to their exemption from all business rates.”
The resort is a small, fashionable seafront B&B set in a refurbished Georgian townhouse and is straight reverse the Jubilee Clock.
It consists of 9 en-suite rooms and to the rear a big storage with planning permission to develop the roof house into a vacation flat.
Before Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, Mr Jones had already earned his cleaning soap stripes on Channel 5’s Family Affairs, the place he performed Declan Byrne between 1999 and 2001. Declan was written right into a knotty net of flat‑share tensions and romantic problems, relationship Gabby Johnson whereas his flatmate Clive secretly fell for him, earlier than later starting a relationship with Yasmin, the estranged spouse of his pal Josh.
Mr Jones went on to play Garry Flemming within the Danny Dyer movie Is Harry on the Boat? within the early 2000s.
He later frolicked within the United States, filming Lionsgate horror Dead and Gone as Jack Wade, the quick movie Mirror Image in a twin function as Eddie Burke/Jason Dunlap, and Fight Night, broadening his CV past British soaps.
