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Casualty bosses ‘hoping Bradley Walsh’s son Barney will be new Charlie Fairhead’ after emotional exit

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With Casualty’s longest-running actor Derek Thompson having quit the show, BBC bosses are said to hope Barney Walsh will fill the void.

Derek, who played Charlie Fairhead, announced he was leaving the medical drama in May last year and said: "The time has come for me to hang up Charlie's scrubs." He also added that his exit storyline as one of “the best episodes of my career".

Charlie’s exit comes after claims Derek's soap fate was sealed because his salary was too high to be justified following reports he earned between £349,999 and £399,999 a year.

Derek has starred in almost 900 episodes of Casualty and fans were convinced that Charlie was going to be killed off having been stabbed in his penultimate episode.

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