Sunday Mirror

Hollyoaks Nikki winds up debt help company

Cash worries force star to axe her firm

- TV Editor BY JANINE YAQOOB BY KAREN ROCKETT

HOLLYOAKS HOLLYOA star Nikki Sanderson has h shut her debt management manageme business just months afte after starting it.

In March w we told how she set up the notnot-for-profit company to help struggling stru people.

But the th former Corrie favou favourite, 35, has now wou wound it up.

N Nikki’s partner Greg Wh Whitehurst ran a sim similar firm but it was di dissolved in 2015. His p parents Christine a and Adrian were referred to police for taking millions out of their own debt company First Step.

Two years ago the Financial Conduct Authority banned the pair from working in finance for leaving 4,000 hard- up clients £ 6million out of pocket. The Stockport couple – dubbed “vampires of debt” – blew

SHE’S flea-bagged another prize! Phoebe Waller-Bridge picks up her latest gong from US star Donald Glover and admits: “This has been the most extraordin­ary year of my life.”

The Fleabag star and Killing Eve creator, 34, already has three Emmys and a Bafta among her haul, but won British Artist of the Year at the British Academy Britannia Awards on Friday.

Rocketman stars Taron Egerton and Jamie Bell were also at the LA bash. £500,000 on holidays, £200,000 on cars, £50,000 on luxury goods.

There is no suggestion Nikki, who was a Corrie favourite as hairdresse­r Candice, is involved in wrongdoing.

Her Financial Awareness Community Team promised it would talk to creditors on behalf of clients and help reduce their debts for a fixed monthly fee.

When it was launched, its website said staff included an experience­d lawyer and that the firm had helped over 1,000 cases.

Nikki said on Instagram earlier this year: “If you’re in debt and don’t know where to turn, please don’t suffer in silence.”

The actress submitted paperwork to close her company last month – with the process to be completed by the end of the year.

Its Facebook page has been deleted and website closed down. An Instagram feed was last updated in May.

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