Charles "Charlie" Hoyland is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by the child actor Jacob Brito from October 2008, taking over from Aaron Aulsebrook-Walker. He has recently been SORAS'd to being 4 years old. He is the son of Max (Stephen Lovatt) and Stephanie Hoyland (Carla Bonner). After many months of trying to conceive, as well as failing to adopt, Steph and Max were beginning to give up hope of ever having a child of their own, when she suddenly found out that she was pregnant. For the first half of the pregnancy, things went well, but as the birth got closer, Steph suddenly found herself in the middle of a nightmare as she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she had already beaten once in 2003. Signs of this were dreams about a) Drew Kirk and b) the baby boy aged 15 and Steph's brother Oscar aged 18. Steph refused to have any treatment for it until her miracle baby, whom she had already named Charlie after her grandfather, was born. Her refusal caused a huge rift between Max and Steph, but she stuck to her decision and Charlie was safely delivered in March 2006, before his mother was rushed in for emergency surgery to remove the cancerous [ - ]

Charles "Charlie" Hoyland is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours,... [ + ]