EastEnders hunk Danny Walters weighed 16 stone when he was a kid and was tormented by cruel bullies over his size. The actor, who played stud Keanu Taylor in the soap, has admitted he was big as a child and would smuggle packets of sweets into school under his blazer.
He was targeted by bullies until his teens, and reveals a cruel jibe about his size on holiday as a teenager convinced him to get healthy.
Speaking on Mike Fenton Stevens' My Time Capsule podcast, he explained: "We were talking to these two girls on the sun loungers and I came out and said, 'Hey' and they turned around and said, 'Oh my God, who's this ugly fat guy?' "I was like, 'Woah' and my brother said, 'Hey, that's really harsh.' "I started crying and ran off...
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