Inside Matt Lapinskas life - body transformation, 'normal' job rant and co-star ex

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Hollyoaks, following his time as Anthony Moon in EastEnders. The actor's character meets Gary Lucy's Luke Morgan after the Hollyoaks regular heads to Majorca for stag party celebrations.Things soon take a dramatic twist though, with it becoming clear that nice-guy Alex isn't as much of a good person as they first thought.Gary is also exiting Hollyoaks as Luke, with this dramatic storyline set to be one of his final.Now with Matt, 33, back on our screens, Daily Star has taken a look inside his life – from his hunky transformation, his return to a "normal" job and his love life.Back in March 2021, Matt was forced to defend himself after soap fans branded him a "failed actor".The star had put down his scripts and picked up his tools to work as a builder in order to "put food on the table".Speaking on the Soap From The Box podcast, the soap star said: "You've got to put food on the table and I've got a mortgage to pay."Calling me a failed actor, that's wrong, that's rude."He went on: "It's just rude, especially seeing as we're going through a pandemic."There's nothing wrong with the job.