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Fed Sonia: Natalie Cassidy Works It Out

by | 23rd, January 2008

nataliecassidy-1.pngNATALIE Cassidy was known to millions of EastEnders fans as Eric Bristow’s love child Sonia.

With levels of obesity at a record high, Sonia played the role of the typical Briton to a tee.

With her bovine mannerisms and slow wits Sonia held up a mirror to EastEnders’ viewers and said, “Thish yoos innit. Thish is wot yoo is, yoo plank.”

Sonia was a character. Not, just in the way that fat people are called a character as a euphemism for being very fat; Natalie was a character, in a soap opera who happened to be carrying a bit of timber.

When Sonia left EastEnders we expected to see her in Celebrity Fat Camp or presenting an episode of Tonight With Trevor McDonald in which Natalie exposes fat prejudice among Britain’s Olympic trampolinists

“They’re looking for the new Vanessa Feltz,” goes the advert in the Stage’s situations vacant pages.

But Natalie is not listening to anything other than the sound of blood pumping in her ears. Natalie is working out. She is now thin and tells OK!: “To maintain my weight now, I do the DVD three to four times a week and walk everywhere, too.”

The DVD is called “Then & Now”, and features Natalie in before (white, big-boned) and after (orange, thinner) poses.

But to watch yourself jumping up and down as you jump up and down might be a strain, like human budgie looking in the mirror and wondering who the handsome devil staring back is.

Happily, the Anorak notes that EastEnders is now transmitted four times a week. Perhaps if Natalie plays the DVD whenever the show is on she can find the vim to carry on…



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