Another day and yet another misleading story in the tabloids. Today's claim is that Nasty Nick Cotton, who was played by John Altman from 1985 to 1993, is to be killed off in another off-screen death.

Playing 'nasty' Nick Cotton in the BBC1 drama EastEnders was financially rewarding… but John Altman hates being typecast as a 'soap star'. It is the role he is best known for with him playing the show ...

Morrissey has revealed that he almost played Dot Cotton's son Nick in EastEnders. The singer recalled in his recently-published autobiography that he was approached to play Dot Cotton's 'so far ...