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Charlie Fairhead walks out of Holby City Hospital alive after 38 years... but was he a Casualty of BBC cuts?
Senior charge nurse Charlie Fairhead last night left viewers in tears as he finally departed the accident and emergency department of the fictional Holby City Hospital after a near four-decade shift.
Fans had been left fearing Charlie, played by Derek Thompson since the show's inception in 1986, would die after he was stabbed in the previous cliffhanger episode by a drugs dealer. Sources say Thompson's fate was sealed because his salary – between £349,999 and £399,999 a year – was too high for BBC chiefs to justify after axing Casualty spin-off Holby City and Doctors. Senior charge nurse Charlie Fairhead (Derek Thompson) left viewers in tears as he finally departed the fictional Holby City Hospital
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