Derek Thompson is leaving Casualty after playing Charlie Fairhead for 38 years. Find out more about the BBC star's life off-screen from his secret health battle to short-lived music career
Casualty viewers are getting ready to say goodbye to an icon as Derek Thompson – who plays Charlie Fairhead – is bowing out after 38 on the show.
Derek Thompson's wife and sons Derek has been married to actress Dee Sadler since 1989 after they met on the set of Casualty. The pair share a son called Charlie, but Derek insists his son was not named after his on-screen persona. Secret health battle Derek discovered he had dystonia in 2010 at the age of 61. According to the NHS, dystonia is "uncontrolled and sometimes painful muscle movements or spasms."
Speaking to Daily Mail in 2006, he said: "I am lucky Botox is particularly beneficial to my kind of dystonia – it is very difficult to inject the vocal cords in those suffering from laryngeal dystonia, for instance."'Thrown out' of NTAs Derek was reportedly kicked out of the National Television Awards in 2016 after having a bit too much to drink.
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