EastEnders star Ricky Norwood AXED after five years as Arthur "Fatboy" Chubb

[Rashers]

Ricky Norwood has been axed from EastEnders after five years as lovable rogue Arthur “Fatboy” Chubb.

The actor was suspended from the soap last year after allegedly being caught on a webcam performing a naked sex act.

He also apparently smoked cann*abis during the eight-minute Skype clip.

Ricky, 28, will film his final EastEnders scenes next week. The episode showing Fatboy’s exit will be aired in the run-up to Christmas.

A spokesman for the BBC show said: “We can confirm Ricky is leaving. We wish him all the best.”


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[Twobob]

Sack the whole jazis lot of them , IMO ,

[quinner]

Sack the whole jazis lot of them , IMO ,

lol..Kath is a big fan....

[Twobob]

lol..Kath is a big fan....

Hope that " act " wasn't with Dot ......

[Napper Tandy]

Sack the whole jazis lot of them , IMO ,

The main Soaps are dying in the UK and Ireland, I don't know anyone that watches them now. Corrie gets around 6.5million and EastEnders nearer 7million. Go back 10 years it was 9 million and 20 years ago it was 11 million.

Anyway with rising London prices most of the characters in EastEnders couldn't afford to live in Walford if it was a real area of London.

[Twobob]

The main Soaps are dying in the UK and Ireland, I don't know anyone that watches them now. Corrie gets around 6.5million and EastEnders nearer 7million. Go back 10 years it was 9 million and 20 years ago it was 11 million.

Anyway with rising London prices most of the characters in EastEnders couldn't afford to live in Walford if it was a real area of London.

If only they could get Stan / Hilda and Eddie Yates back....

[KatieMorag]

The main Soaps are dying in the UK and Ireland, I don't know anyone that watches them now. Corrie gets around 6.5million and EastEnders nearer 7million. Go back 10 years it was 9 million and 20 years ago it was 11 million.

Anyway with rising London prices most of the characters in EastEnders couldn't afford to live in Walford if it was a real area of London.

Looking on Rightmove the cheapest 3 bed houses in London are between £250-£300,000 and there's only a handful of those, so I'd say you're probably right about that. But I've always thought that about the houses in EastEnders.

[paudge]

I have to say I quite liked Fatboy [Ricky Norwood] and I'm sorry to see him go. I felt he brightened things up a bit with his lighthearted personality far too many misery guts in the square I wouldn't buy a house in Walford if it was going for a tenner.

[paudge]

Comeback for Grant

Ross Kemp set to make an Eastenders comeback after 10 years. It seems incredible that ten years have passed since we last saw him in Walford. I always liked his character Grant. Phil is something of a joke now. These days he couldn't take Dot Cotton, lets see how the years have treated Grant. I look forward to his return.