THE best pal of former EastEnders actor Paul Nicholls says the star knifed him in the back by stealing his lap dancer fiancée.
Robert Selby offered Paul, 41, a place to stay when another friend kicked him out. But the actor soon fell for Hemma Kathrecha — Robert’s girlfriend of four years and mum to his son, two — and has since moved in with them.
Robert said: “Paul’s a back-stabber. I wish I’d never met him. I can’t get to see my son. He’s scared about Hemma coming back to me because he has nowhere else to go.” Recovering heroin addict Robert met Paul at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting two years ago.
But their friendship soured after he offered Paul — Enders’ teen heartthrob Joe Wicks in the mid-1990s — a bed in North London.
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