They become part of our lives and living rooms for years as we follow the ups and downs of their friendships, relationships and sometimes grisly deaths but what happens to soap stars once they leave our screens?
Former EastEnders stars Tony Discipline and Matt Lapinskas are appearing on a podcast this weekend revealing how they changed their lives after leaving the soap.
Here they explain what happened next and we look at where some of our other favourite stars ended up... Adam Thomas - Adam Barton, Emmerdale Adam spent nine years playing Adam Barton in the ITV soap before leaving in 2018.
He then took on three days a week of work at a property management company owned by a businessman friend. He said: “I’ve got a family to support at the
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