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EastEnders Nick Cotton star star John Altman celebrated his 70th birthday this week.The actor, real name John Clarkson Stewart, was among the show's original cast members appearing in the first episode in February 1985 and appeared on the show on and off as a recurring character.His character, the son of Walford icon Dot Cotton (June Brown), was killed off in the 30th anniversary episode of the show which aired in February 2015.The soap star has also appeared in several films, television series and stage productions.In 2010, he became the new frontman of the band Heavy Metal Kids following the death of former frontman Gary Holton in 1985.As John turns another year older, Daily Star has taken a look into his career.Making his acting debut in the 1979 film The First Great Train Robbery, John also appeared in Quadrophenia and American Werewolf in London before being cast as Nasty Nick in EastEnders.The Albert Square bad boy was involved in a number of grisly storylines including killing Eddie Royle, drug addiction, causing the death of his son Ashley and several murder attempts on his own mother.Nick was responsible for the BBC soap’s first ever murder, with the body of his victim Reg Cox being discovered in the opening episode.John had a record six separate stints in the show over the years, appearing in the first episode in 1985 and continuing for another 30 years.Since leaving the soap in 2015, John has claimed that EastEnders is losing viewers because it has lost the ability to tell new stories or break new ground.The actor thinks most of the big shocking storylines have been done.He said: "EastEnders had dramatic divorces, drugs, it opened with a murder."It also had different cultures, different races, I don’t know if

But who takes the crown for the baddest soap villain of all time? Have your say in the survey belowEmmerdale's Meena Jutla seems to have only one mission in life: to kill. She's made a nice dent in the show's cast since entering the village in September 2020.She's tried to drown people, pushed them off bridges, hit them over the head with a kayak oar or bashed their head against a wooden step.

EastEnders, after he fails to confess the full extent of his prison sentence to Kat Slater.Worried he might be put on remand, DCI Keeble later revealed his fate to him, and asked him to become a police informant - otherwise he would go to prison.However Phil said he was not a "grass" and told DCI Keeble that he would not go through with it.With Phil's prison fate seeming more and more likely, will he agree to the deal? Or will he be put behind bars?Many of Phil Mitchell's fellow Albert Square residents have served time in jail before him, and here, Daily Star takes a look at some of the most memorable characters who were sent to prison.'Dirty' Den Watts has had a villainous past and was part of some of the soap's biggest storylines, including handing divorce papers to wife Angie Watts and fathering a baby with Michelle Fowler.However in 1988, the pub owner was forced to turn himself into the police after a criminal gang called The Firm intended to kill him.The only way he could escape The Firm, was to turn himself in and take the rap for an arson attack that happened a few years before.He was later remanded in custody in prison at HMP Dickens Hill, but on his way to his trial in 1989, The Firm hijacked the vehicle and kidnapped Den.Though he managed to escape, he was later shot by an unknown gunman and fell into a canal, leaving viewers presuming that he was dead - until his shock return to the square 14 years later.