Exclusive: 'Nasty Nick' Actor, Others Doubt Moz's EastEnders Claim - The Huffington Post
by Larry Jaffee
Editor & Publisher, Walford Gazette
Excerpt:
Morrissey's assertion in Autobiography about being offered a role on EastEnders as Dot Cotton's long-lost son has been called into question by several people associated with the series.
"I would arrive unexpectedly in Albert Square and cause births, deaths and factory fires every time I opened my mouth," writes Moz on page 353.
John Altman, who would have played his on-screen brother 'Nasty Nick' Cotton (and has done so on and off since 1985), questions the revelation in an exclusive Walford Gazette interview from Fareham, England, where he's performing in a panto production of Jack and the Beanstalk through 5 January.
"I think Morrissey might have been making that up," says Altman, who would have not necessarily minded if EastEnders had given 'Nasty Nick' a brother. "I know that the late Gary Holton was up for it. We looked a bit similar back then." Holton, English actor and musician among his credits the comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and as frontman of the Heavy Metal Kids, died in October 1985, about eight months after EastEnders debuted.
In his book Morrissey doesn't say exactly when this "offer" took place, presumably while he was living in California some time in the late 1990s to early 2000s.
An EastEnders executive certainly in the position to know if it were the case tells the Gazette: "I've heard this claim before but as far as I'm aware, it's untrue."
by Larry Jaffee
Editor & Publisher, Walford Gazette
Excerpt:
Morrissey's assertion in Autobiography about being offered a role on EastEnders as Dot Cotton's long-lost son has been called into question by several people associated with the series.
"I would arrive unexpectedly in Albert Square and cause births, deaths and factory fires every time I opened my mouth," writes Moz on page 353.
John Altman, who would have played his on-screen brother 'Nasty Nick' Cotton (and has done so on and off since 1985), questions the revelation in an exclusive Walford Gazette interview from Fareham, England, where he's performing in a panto production of Jack and the Beanstalk through 5 January.
"I think Morrissey might have been making that up," says Altman, who would have not necessarily minded if EastEnders had given 'Nasty Nick' a brother. "I know that the late Gary Holton was up for it. We looked a bit similar back then." Holton, English actor and musician among his credits the comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and as frontman of the Heavy Metal Kids, died in October 1985, about eight months after EastEnders debuted.
In his book Morrissey doesn't say exactly when this "offer" took place, presumably while he was living in California some time in the late 1990s to early 2000s.
An EastEnders executive certainly in the position to know if it were the case tells the Gazette: "I've heard this claim before but as far as I'm aware, it's untrue."
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