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Dancing On Ice 2024 profile Ricky Norwood: Why he was axed from EastEnders and whether he’d return

Former EastEnders fave Ricky Norwood will make his Dancing On Ice 2024 bow this weekend. But why was he suspended from the BBC One soap?

Ricky Norwood has been a Celebrity Big Brother runner-up (Credit: YouTube) Arthur ‘Fatboy’ Chubbs first popped up in Walford in spin-off show EastEnders: E20 in 2010. Ricky struck up a memorable working relationship with ‘Enders legend June Brown as Dot Cotton, and enjoyed a range of comedic and serious storylines. In March 2014, reports claimed footage of Ricky during a Skype chat showed him allegedly smoking cannabis and performing a sex act.

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