TWENTY years after playing Garth Stubbs on Birds of a Feather, actor Matthew Savage now looks completely different. Matt, 49, was the second actor to star as the mollycoddled son of Tracey played by Loose Women's Linda Robson.
The hit comedy started on the BBC 1989 and ran for nearly a decade before being revived by ITV in 2014. Matt played Garthy from the second to ninth season of the iconic ITV show before turning his back on acting when he was just 26.
But his acting career lasted almost 20 years, after he got his start playing the Artful Dodger in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
It was at his dad's theatre company, Starmaker where he nabbed the iconic role and made some very impressive friends, including Kate Winslet and Christian Bale who were also a part of the same company. "Kate was a good friend of mine, because we grew up together and we often played opposite each other in shows like Annie and Jungle Book," Matt said in an interview in 1998. "We never did anything romantic - although we did have a few snogs when we weren't acting, but back then everyone was kissing everyone." Matt later appeared alongside Michael Caine in the feature film Without A Clue before landing the role of Garthy in Birds of a Feather.
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