Bobby Brazier was “desperate” for fame as a youngster.
Bobby Brazier really wanted to be famous as a kid
The ‘EastEnders’ star dreamt of hitting the big time after he lost his mother, the late ‘Big Brother’ star Jade Goody - who died aged 27 in 2009 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer when he was five and his little brother Freddie, 19, was four - and he craved getting “attention”.
The 20-year-old actor told Grazia magazine: "I think that as a kid, that's all I wanted. I was desperate for that when I was younger. I made myself ready. I spent so much time making myself ready because I started to believe that could happen and I could have that.
"Because I wanted it so much. When I was 14, 15, even when I was 12, I remember having thoughts like that, desires like that. I spent a lot of my childhood years just wishing for attention."
Bobby admitted his “cheeky” 'EastEnders' character Freddie is an “exaggerated version” of him in real life.
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star - who is currently competing on the BBC One Latin and ballroom competition with his professional partner Diane Buswell, 34, alongside the likes of broadcaster Angela Rippon, 78, television presenter Angela Scanlon, 39, and Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy, 53 - thinks his mum would be “happy” about all his career success to date.
Bobby told OK! magazine: "'She'd be happy that I'm doing something that makes me happy. Like all my friends and all of my family, and everyone that loves me is.
"They're happy for me because they know how much I'm going to enjoy myself and how happy I am to just be here."
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