Fatboy (EastEnders)
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| EastEnders character | |||||
| Portrayed by | Ricky Norwood | ||||
| Duration | 2010–2015 | ||||
| First appearance | Episode 3926 5 January 2010 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 5196 24 December 2015 |
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| Created by | EastEnders: E20 series 1 writing team | ||||
| Introduced by | Diederick Santer | ||||
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EastEnders: E20 (2010–2011) "East Street" (2010) "All I Want for Christmas" (2012) Tamwar Tales – The Life of an Assistant Market Inspector (2013) |
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| Classification | Former; regular | ||||
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| Other names | Arthur Chubb Fat Boy (credited as) |
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| Occupation | DJ Market trader Car salesman Fast food worker Barman Waiter |
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| Father | Ashley Chubb |
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| Wife | Mercy Olubunmi (2011) |
Arthur "Fatboy" Chubb (also credited as Fat Boy) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders and its Internet spin-off EastEnders: E20, played by Ricky Norwood. He made his first appearance in EastEnders on 5 January 2010 before appearing in the spin-off. Fatboy is one of four main characters in the first series of E20 and makes cameo appearances in the second and third series. He was created by the EastEnders: E20 writing team during a BBC summer school in August 2009. He frequently uses London street slang and is described as brash, confident, caring, a hustler and a womaniser. Critics have called him zany, an asset to the show, authentic, a cliché, and yet to serve a purpose, with Stuart Heritage from The Guardian calling for him to be axed. Norwood won the Best Newcomer award at the 2010 Inside Soap Awards and Most Popular Newcomer at the 2011 National Television Awards for his portrayal of Fatboy, and has been nominated for two further awards. In 2014, Norwood was temporarily suspended from the soap for two months after a tape of improper conduct involving Norwood leaked onto the internet. In November 2015, the character lost his nickname and was simply credited as Arthur Chubb from 20 November onwards.
On 16 October 2015, it was announced that Norwood was to leave EastEnders at the end of his contract. Details of when or how Fatboy would leave were not revealed but Norwood filmed his final scenes later that month. He departed on 24 December 2015, but was killed off-screen in the next episode.
Fatboy first appears in EastEnders at Lucy Beale's (Melissa Suffield) party, where he gets pleasure from watching a fight between two girls, and asks other girls to play Twister with him but nobody will. In EastEnders: E20, he helps his friend Mercy Olubunmi (Bunmi Mojekwu) with a project to encourage more young people to the church, but his ideas leave them both humiliated. They meet Leon Small (Sam Attwater) and Zsa Zsa Carter (Emer Kenny) and start squatting in a flat. Fatboy tells Zsa Zsa and Leon both his parents were killed in a drive-by shooting. He finds out Mercy is pregnant and accuses Leon of being the father. During an argument, Mercy reveals that Fatboy's parents are alive, angering Zsa Zsa, who throws Fatboy's laptop out of the window. On their last night in the flat, he arranges a party but leaves before the police arrive. Knowing they can no longer stay there, he invites Zsa Zsa, Mercy and Leon to stay at his house in Wanstead, but Mercy decides to go home to her grandmother.
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