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Martin Kemp attacked in the street as star punched ‘so hard he stopped breathing’

EastEnders star Martin Kemp revealed that he was attacked on the street so badly once that he struggled to breathe.

But the unexpected attack was directed at his EastEnders character Steve Owen, one of television’s most prominent villains in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Detailing the attack, he explained: “I was walking down Tottenham Court Road thinking, oh yeah, life’s good, and I was Steve Owen in EastEnders. “Tottenham Court Road, on my own, and you know you don’t want people to recognise you, so I’ve got my baseball cap on and my head’s down a little bit, so my eyes are not looking what’s in front of me and I’m looking down at the pavement.”

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