If there’s one thing we know about death in EastEnders, it’s this; nobody is ever truly a goner until you see the body.
Think about it; Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), Claudette Hubbard (Ellen Thomas), and Dirty Den (Leslie Grantham) all popped back when we thought they’d bit the big one.
And now it seems as if Fatboy - aka Ricky Norwood - could do the same thing.
As we all know, Arthur Chubb was incorrectly targeted by Ronnie Mitchell’s hitmen when twisted Claudette tricked them into thinking that he was her son, Vincent.
The result?
Yeah, that’s right; our beloved Fatboy was put into the boot of a car and crushed to death in a scrapyard.
A death made even more bitter by the fact that we knew Arthur was afraid of the dark.
Sob.
We assumed, looking at Vincent’s face when he opened that boot, that Fatboy was well and truly dead.
But now Richard Blackwood, the actor who plays Claudette’s son, has hinted that Fatboy’s exit might not be as permanent as we once believed.
In fact, he’s actually very keen for EastEnders to turn him into their next Lazarus and bring him back from the dead; pronto.
"I would love for him to come back, I love Ricky," he told the Daily Star.
"Myself and Ricky have been friends for 16 years so just in terms of a friendship, I would love him to come back."
He added: "The thing is they've done it very successfully before so it can be done.
“I think now, with TV in general but especially EastEnders, you always know that they will have another plan."
If Fatboy IS still alive (which, to be honest, doesn’t seem all that likely) it would throw another suspect into the ongoing Ronnie Mitchell stalker case.
After all, he’d DEFINITELY have a reason for revenge on the blonde murderess, wouldn’t he?
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