EASTENDERS prima Ricky Champ has near fans disquieted aft announcing his determination to discontinue the societal media level X.
Ricky, who is champion known for playing Stuart Highway connected the soap, has 31,400 followers connected X, formerly Twitter.
He sends retired tweets regularly astir his vocation arsenic good arsenic idiosyncratic musings. But successful a daze move, Ricky announced helium would beryllium quitting the platform.
Giving fans precocious announcement of his departure, helium wrote: Hey guys… I’m deleting this relationship and coming disconnected X.
“You tin inactive travel maine connected Instagram if you wish. Big love!” helium added.
Fans were shocked by the station that seemingly came retired of obscurity and flocked to the comments to connection Ricky their support.
“Will miss you fella,” 1 wrote.
While different commented: “Oh nary anticipation you’re each good, spot you connected Instagram,” adding a smiley look emoji astatine the end.
A 3rd instrumentality shared their champion wishes to Ricky, writing: “Be lucky, Rick.”
He has not yet posted thing connected Instagram since announcing helium was deleting X.
Ricky near EastEnders successful 2022 aft a “crazy” journey.
“In EastEnders I went from villain to leader to dad,” helium told Digital Spy astatine the clip of his exit.
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“It was amazing, doing that for 5 years with a character’s arc. It felt weird leaving him,” helium admitted.
Happily, for fans, Ricky hasn’t ruled retired a instrumentality to the soap someday, noting that thing is possible.
“He didn’t die. He rode disconnected into the sunset. I deliberation he’s determination successful the North Circular surviving with Rainie,” helium said of his character.
Stuart was capable to commencement caller with Rainie (Tanya Franks) and their babe lad Roland aft leaving Walford.
EastEnders stars who QUIT
MICHELLE Collins has seen her 2nd EastEnders stint boost her slope balance. Yet what stars person discontinue this year?
The Sun exclusively reported however Michelle, 62, was down to £20,000 successful her institution accounts erstwhile she agreed to a shock back-from-the-dead return to Albert Square past year.
Her character, Cindy Beale, was presumed dormant off-camera successful 1998.
Yet what astir the 2024 exits?
Earlier this summer, loyal soap fans appeared to enactment how Stevie Mitchell had "quit" the long-running series.
It came aft Alan Ford enjoyed conscionable six-months on-screen.
Bobby Beale histrion Clay Milner Russell besides left this twelvemonth aft 5 years successful Walford.
Fans also feared Martin Fowler histrion James Bye would "quit retired of boredom" over caller storylines.
Additionally, a big of stars have quit the BBC soap for Hollywood fame.
One of the astir palmy stars to travel from the BBC One soap is Rob Kazinsky.
He played Stacey Slater’s member Sean Slater from 2006 to 2009, helium has starred in Hollywood blockbusters Pacific Rim and Captain Marvel.
Ben Hardy, who discontinue EastEnders arsenic Bobby Beale astir a decennary ago, went connected to interruption Hollywood the pursuing year, erstwhile helium starred arsenic Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Since then, helium has played Roger Taylor successful Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and helium starred in Michael Bay’s Netflix movie 6 Underground.
Michelle Ryan played Zoe Slater until 2005.
She starred arsenic the pb successful short-lived American bid Bionic Woman from 2007 to 2008.
He antecedently dealt with immoderate dense but progressive storylines, including his bosom crab diagnosis and suffering from postnatal depression.
A twelvemonth aft leaving the soap, histrion Ricky joined the West End play 2:22 A Ghost Story astatine the Apollo Theatre.
He has besides bagged a impermanent relation successful the Netflix bid The Decameron alongside Derry Girls histrion Saoirse-Monica Jackson.
Ricky besides plays Sergeant Daz Black successful ITV constabulary grooming drama Piglets.