Strictly's Bobby Brazier makes unexpected career move that's sure to devastate fans

Bobby Brazier has go a immense sanction for the BBC soap successful caller years, starring connected some Strictly and EastEnders

Bobby Brazier is readying to "step distant from acting".

The EastEnders prima - who has played Freddie Slater connected the soap since 2022 - has go a immense sanction for the BBC soap successful caller years, but helium needs "a break" aft his assorted projects person started gathering up.

"I deliberation I request to measurement distant from acting for a spot and person a break." Bobby said successful a caller interview, adding to Daily Star: "I'm 20, but I haven't felt 20 successful a precise agelong time."

Bobby - the lad of Jeff Brazier and precocious world prima Jade Goody - was a finalist connected past year's Strictly Come Dancing.

The 21-year-old histrion volition besides look successful Alexandra Burke's caller Paramount+ play Curfew, and moving with her has fixed him a tendency to enactment connected the West End.

He added: "I recovered Alexandra truly inspiring. I would emotion to bash what she has done and spell into the West End. I would emotion to beryllium talented capable to get up connected signifier and sing and creation each night. But I cognize however overmuch hard enactment goes into that."

And contempt wanting to instrumentality a break, Bobby hopes helium keeps getting much offers for different projects truthful helium tin proceed to "progress and learn".

He said: "I privation to beryllium bully astatine what I do, truthful immoderate accidental that presents itself wherever I tin advancement and learn, I volition take."

His West End imagination could go a reality, arsenic it was reported aft his Strictly stint that theatre bosses were eyeing him up. A root told The Sun paper past year: "Bobby's clip connected 'Strictly' surely hasn't gone unnoticed by theatre bosses."

"They truly consciousness helium has prima prime and would enactment bums successful seats, fixed his immense popularity."

"Bobby's truthful graceful connected the dancefloor and they judge helium wouldn't look retired of spot connected a large philharmonic production, oregon adjacent a play."

It comes aft Bobby's dada Jeff courageously opened up astir the tragic nonaccomplishment of his father, Stephen Faldo, who perished successful a notorious vessel disaster. At 45, Jeff, who is simply a devoted dada himself, admitted it was lone a fewer years backmost that helium felt acceptable to face the details of the harrowing lawsuit successful 1989 erstwhile 2 vessels collided connected London's River Thames. In an affectional Instagram station featuring an aged representation of his dad, Jeff wrote 4 years ago: "Meet Stephen Faldo, my biologic begetter that destiny was cruel capable to guarantee I would ne'er get to meet."

Jeff shared his feelings: "Due to each of the aforesaid improvement I've done I look to 'feel' much than I suppress these days truthful I've spent astir of contiguous feeling an lack of thing I wished I'd experienced, thing I would person had from 13 onwards but was simply denied by immoderate alternatively s**t luck."

The calamity unfolded successful the aboriginal hours of 20 August 1989, erstwhile the pleasance vessel Marchioness was struck doubly by the dredger Bowbelle and sank rapidly. The Marchioness was being utilized for a day solemnisation with astir 130 guests aboard and it took a specified 30 seconds to spell under, resulting successful the nonaccomplishment of 51 lives.

Stephen, Jeff's father, was astatine the helm of the Marchioness. He had been moving connected the Thames since the property of 17 and was conscionable 29 erstwhile helium mislaid his beingness that night. Jeff spoke candidly astir his affectional journey, sharing: "These feelings contiguous led maine not for the archetypal clip to speechmaking a fewer things astir the events starring to his death, I usually halt myself aft a portion though due to the fact that the full misinformed matter was arsenic honorable and transparent arsenic overmuch of which we conflict with today."

Wrapping up his heartfelt message, helium expressed solidarity: "I anticipation others who person lived lives arsenic arsenic analyzable arsenic my ain volition consciousness adjacent conscionable a flimsy consciousness of restitution knowing you're not connected your own, your feelings are valid, and being honest, adjacent if somewhat vague feels large and is to beryllium encouraged."

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