Natalie Cassidy has mentioned ‘it's what it's’ as 4 of her colleagues have been axed from EastEnders.
The 39-year-old actress, who performs Sonia Fowler on the BBC One cleaning soap, spoke concerning the resolution made by present producers to offer characters the boot in an enormous shake-up that has shocked viewers.
Actors who might be leaving Albert Sq. within the subsequent few months embody Ricky Champ (Stuart Freeway), Barbara Smith (Dana Monroe), Dayle Hudson (Peter Beale), and Kelsey Calladine-Smith (Jada Lennox).
Many followers of the cleaning soap might be gutted on the information, however Natalie mentioned it was simply how the TV business labored and is the “nature of the enterprise”.
Chatting with Metro.co.uk on the British Cleaning soap Awards, she mentioned: “It’s cleaning soap. It’s what occurs. To get good tales, you want folks to exit and also you want folks to come back in. It’s simply the way in which of the present. Exits and entrance is part of soaps. So it simply is what it's."
She mentioned she was “so excited” to see what new govt producer Chris Clenshaw would convey to the long-running cleaning soap.
“Chris is a superb addition. He’s been with us earlier than, he’s very passionate concerning the present, he beloved it inside and outside, significantly,” Natalie shared.
The beloved cleaning soap star, who has performed Sonia since 1993, was relieved that somebody who “loves the present as a lot as I do” was in cost.
“It’s simply beautiful to be in a spot the place we’re beginning afresh. I’ve watched the present undergo many various units and totally different instances and that is simply one other one and I’m actually excited,” she defined.
Chris was employed in November final yr, as Jon Sen determined to step down, and in response to Digital Spy, the newcomer has been working arduous since January to shake issues up.
“It is nothing private to any of the solid going, it is merely a inventive resolution - for large storylines to occur you need to say goodbye to folks, that is the character of cleaning soap,” a supply instructed the outlet.
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