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EastEnders' Teddy actor Roland Manookian's surprising link to TOWIE star
EastEnders star Roland Manookian, who plays Teddy in the soap, has a surprise link to The Only Way Is Essex’s Jessica Wright as they both appeared in the same movie together
Fans of the show were quick to recognise Roland from the 2004 movie The Football Factory, where he played Zeberdee, a young member of the football gang led by Tommy (played by former EastEnder Danny Dyer), but only truly eagle-eyed viewers have realised there is a link between Roland and a TOWIE star, thanks to one of his other film performances. TOWIE's Jess Wright in Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella (Image: Film still) Read MoreRelated Articles EastEnders' Chrissie Watts' real reason for return 'revealed' and it's bad news for Sharon Rise of the Footsoldier is a British gangster movie franchise, with the first film based on the true story of Inter City Firm hooligan Carlton Leach, who went from being a football hooligan to becoming a hired muscle for the Essex firm that was involved in the murders of three men, including Pat Tate and Tony Tucker, who were gunned down in their Range Rover on an Essex farm track in 1995.
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