"Nasty Nick always did. He was a terrific character, like King Rat in a leather jacket, and he plagued the BBC soap from the first episode in February 1985 until his death from a heroin overdose in 2015."He was a horrible, drug-dealing, racist thug who robbed his mother and had the highest murder count on the Square," John says. "Yet people liked him.""He shakes his head. "I once had a group of Rastas stop me and offer me a blast on their joint.
I wouldn't have thought they'd have liked someone like Nick but they did."Why so? "He had classic lines and a twinkle in his eye."In real life John, 68, made a pretty vicious enemy - the late Sid from the Sex Pistols.
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