BBC EastEnders' Brian Conley's 'Tom Cruise' moment in dramatic fire stunt
ok.co.ukComedian Brian Conley has always made the nation chuckle, but what his EastEnders character Rocky Cotton has done is no laughing matter.
Desperate to clear his huge gambling debt, Rocky set fire to his wife’s café hoping to claim on insurance. However, his plan backfired as the blaze had huge repercussions for the Beale family and this week Kathy (Gillian Taylforth) gets arrested for arson. “It’s awful,” agrees Brian, “but Rocky is hanging on to the fact Kathy will be released – he wants to give it a bit longer before confessing because he might be able to get away with it and live happily ever after." “But Harvey [Monroe, played by Ross Boatman] is putting pressure on Rocky quite literally, he has him against the wall – he threatens him.
Harvey wants to smack Rocky around the head and say, ‘Look mate, you’ve got to take the rap for this.’” It’s not a big surprise that Rocky wants to get the cash through illegal means.
After all, he arrived in Walford under the alias of Terry Cant to con Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy), and ended up a bigamist when he married Kathy in July. “I’m surprised Rocky’s still hanging around,” says Brian. “He would be treated like mud if the truth were to ever come out.
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