Hollyoaks Star Stephanie Waring In Workout Gear Hits the Gym

British actress Stephanie Waring is leaving Hollyoaks after 28 years on the soap—but she’s as active as ever. Waring, 46, shared a video of herself wearing gray leggings and a matching crop top, using resistance training equipment at the gym. “Thing of beauty 🌸,” she captioned the post. “Amazing! Still looking great and keeping fit. You will go on to bigger and better things. Your fans love you and will support you whatever you do next in life. Keep smiling Steph,” a fan commented. Here’s how Waring stays fit, happy, and focused in her 40s.

1. Beauty Diet

Waring says turning her diet around immediately improved her skin. “I just like to eat natural, unprocessed foods, green juice and the like, and that has really made my skin fantastic,” she told Closer. “Before I would just eat processed meals and could never understand why my skin was so dull. But since I made the change people always comment on how nice my skin looks.”

2. Leaving Hollyoaks

Waring was devastated to learn her Hollyoaks character Cindy Cunningham was being axed after 28 years on the show. “I was given the chance to say I had chosen to quit the show to spare me any embarrassment of revealing that I’ve been axed, which was very kind but I don’t want to lie to the fans who have followed Cindy’s journey for nearly 3 decades as I believe they know she nor I would ever have left the show by choice,” she said. “Hollyoaks is in my blood and I have loved every minute of walking in Cindy’s heels.”

3. Balance Is Everything

Waring has learned to relax in her 40s. “Balance is everything, so care about yourself and don’t worry about what people MAY think, because they are actually not that bothered about what you’re doing or what you look like,” she told Great British Life. “Chill out!”

4. Self Confidence With Age

Waring no longer cares about people scrutinizing her appearance. “I wish I’d cared less a long time ago,” she told Great British Life. “In my 20s I was really bothered about what I looked like. In my 30s it was about people’s perception of me , especially with the rise of social media back then. But now in my 40s I’m a lot happier, even though I’m still quite sensitive, I don’t let other people’s negativity spoil my life. I do however wish that I knew in my 30s what I know now about health and well-being especially with the onset of the perimenopause.”

5. Pilates and Weight Training

Waring enjoys low-impact workouts and a diet packed with healthy fats. “[I do] weight training, Pilates and yoga three to five times a week,” she told Great British Life. “I also do a lot of walking. The game changer for me was nailing my nutrition which, at the moment is what I call a ‘Keto-biotic diet’: so, fats and protein with leafy greens and I cycle it with starches on and off plus occasional intermittent fasting. My brain is sharper and I’m so much happier, plus I can sleep!”

1. Bicycle Rides

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Sanderson loves being outside in the fresh air, especially when it’s an adventure in foreign locations. “I’ve done three London marathons which have taken their toll on my knee, so I probably won’t do that anytime soon,” she told Closer. “I also did a cycle ride from Vietnam to Cambodia last year, which was incredible. I’d like to do the London to Paris one and maybe climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity.”

2. No Dieting

Sanderson refuses to confirm to punishing beauty standards. “I try to ignore that because nobody should feel pressured to look or act a certain way,” she told Express. “You get what you’re given. Work with it and embrace your flaws. I’m someone who eats what they want to within reason. Life is too short to deny yourself things you want. If you limit yourself, you crave and gorge.”

3. Hair and Makeup

Sanderson has trusted go-to products for hair and makeup. “99.9% of the time I do my own hair and make up, and I will just use whatever I have,” she told Closer. “Most of my stuff is MAC and I think their products are fairly priced. They last for ages and they do work really well. I use Studio Fix powder base because I can get quite shiny, and I also swear by Astral cream. My mum uses it and she has got fantastic skin!”

4. No Crying Tricks

Sanderson finds intense scenes overwhelming at times. “Over the years, I’ve used different techniques to get myself worked up - and I now get called the crying robot because I can just do it on cue,” she told Closer. “But that’s just years and years of practice. After one of those long emotional days, I just come home and have a big glass of wine and watch the TV!”

5. Skin Care Routine

Sanderson loves winding down at home with her skin care routine. “The one I swear by is taking my make-up off as soon as I can to give my face a breather,” she told Express. “If I finish filming at lunchtime, my make-up comes off immediately. Drinking water is also important. Simple products are fantastic. I also like Astral moisturizer, which is fantastically thick.”

Tiffany Stratton is known for her aggressive attitude in the WWE world—and she works hard to put her money where her mouth is. The wrestling star is all muscle, and one thing she never skips is leg day. Stratton, 24, shared pictures of herself posing in a pink sports bra, her blonde hair tied back in a ponytail with a matching pink scrunchie. “Buff Barbie reporting for leg day 🫡🎀,” she captioned the post. “Beautiful,” a fan commented. Stratton is a beast inside and outside the ring—here’s how she stays strong, focused, and ready for a fight.

1. Crossfit and Bodybuilding

Stratton has always been athletic and strong. “I used to be a bodybuilder,” she told TV Insider. “I did one show and won the entire thing. I used to do CrossFit. I feel like people are surprised at that. They look at me and think pretty blonde. I was an elite gymnast. I was on the national team. I just think people look at me and forgot what I did before coming into wrestling… I definitely feel like I have a chip on my shoulder. I feel people look at me and see just another blonde that looks pretty. I always deliver in the ring. I take wrestling very seriously. I take these premium live events very seriously.”

2. Sculpting Her Physique

Stratton got into bodybuilding after seeing photos of herself and being unhappy with her appearance. “I was kind of chubby in all honesty if I look back at my photos,” she said on the Out of Character with Ryan Satin podcast. “So I got into bodybuilding. That is exactly what I wanted. I wanted to be able to form my muscles to how I wanted them to look. That's why I got into bodybuilding and I went through a whole prep, a bodybuilding prep and that was life changing. I'm so glad I did that before I came to the WWE, because now I know how to get in shape for a big pay-per-view or just in general bodybuilding definitely taught me that and the discipline for dieting and stuff is on another level.”

3. Wonder Woman Dreams

Stratton has big dreams of becoming an action hero. “I would love to go into acting,” she told TV Insider. “My dream role would be some cool action superhero girl that does cool flips. That’s my dream role. Like a Wonder Woman. I’m a big fan of her. I was dressed as her for Halloween one year.”

4. Inspired By Charlotte Flair

Stratton was inspired by Charlotte Flair to go into wrestling. “I would say I was flipping through the channels. I came across a random Friday Night Smackdown and I saw Charlotte Flair,” she said on the Out of Character with Ryan Satin podcast. “I saw that she was blonde, she was buff, she could flip, she could talk some [trash], and I was like, that is literally everything that I can do."

5. Private Life

Stratton keeps strict boundaries between her personal and private life. “I still try to keep my private life private,” she told TV Insider. “But I’ve always behaved like a champion, even before I became a champion. I know how to act in public. It wasn’t like I had to change how I acted within the public eye. I was always very put together and never got drunk at a club and was acting crazy. So I’ve been able to avoid that.”

1. Love Island Training

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Phillips went on a very strict health and fitness regimen before going on Love Island, working out for 90 minutes a day. “I would do 20 to 25 minutes on the treadmill very fast at a high incline,” she told Women’s Health. “I would do a few sets on the lat pulldown machine... and then I used to do a quick circuit on the mats. I used to use like free weights and stuff and that would literally be it every single day.”

2. Holistic Health

Phillips works out to protect her mental health as well as her physical health and appearance. “As I've gotten older, I've realized that separating being healthy from your body image, and how you ‘think you should look’, is the true gamechanger,” she told Bustle. “I feel like a lot of us just subconsciously go to the gym because we think we need to look a certain way. But there are so many other benefits; looks should be the lowest thing on your list of reasons to go to the gym… Don't get me wrong, the health benefits and all of that are absolutely amazing. But for me personally, it is all about the effect physical activity has on mental health.”

3. Morning Workouts

Phillips works out first thing in the morning before the work day starts. “I can tell you what I hate doing and that’s squats,” she told Bustle. “But I really like the feeling of lifting weights and boxing. It almost doesn't feel like you're working out because you're learning something new. I read somewhere that music also gives you the same sort of endorphins as exercise does. I can't think of anything worse than working out and having rubbish music. Or worse: no music at all. I need to listen to angry music, like DMX. Or if I'm going on holiday, then I’ll listen to happy vibe music.”

4. Plans For the Future

Phillips wants to move in a different direction in the future. “I definitely want to maybe get into some kind of politics after the show,” she told Glamour. “I just like helping people and I want to do as much as I can to help people. For me, it’s not really about how much a job pays you, because it’s about helping people. I know that’s cliché and embarrassing, but the job I was in before in the fire safety team, the job previous to that was more money, so... I got a better feeling out of the fire safety team. For me, it’s all about helping people."

5. Embracing Her Physique

Phillips wishes she hadn’t been so hard on herself in the past. “I was aware that I was definitely the biggest girl in there [the villa] but watching old episodes back now, I'm like ‘you looked fab!’” she told Women’s Health. “But that is just proof that you're never happy with what you've got, so you might as well just be happy with what you've got. I was self-conscious but I had no reason to be.”