http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...name_page.html

EASTENDERS bosses are to sex up the flagging soap with glamorous new characters - kicking off tonight with heart-throb Robert Cavanah.

The handsome Scottish actor plays 18-year-old Vicki Fowler's boyfriend Tommy, 38.

An EastEnders spokeswoman said: "Robert is going to shake up the women of Walford.""

Robert, who has starred in the hit TV dramas Silent Witness and Rose & Maloney, told friends he was thrilled to have finally been cast as a hunk.

More glamour will arrive in the soap later this year with a new Slater girl - a cousin to sisters Kat, Lynne and Little Mo. She is described as "drop dead gorgeous".

And even more younger, good-looking characters will be brought in during the New Year.

A source added: "There's going to be lots of male and female totty in 2005.

Already got a thread on this.

PMSL, I looked really hard for one, couldn't find!

It has near enough the same title. Good you looked first though! Hope you found it

Maybe they should just relocate it to the Chester and call it HollyEnders. Top totty doesn't guarantee higher ratings if the characters are piss poor.

I was thinking this. Too many young people won't bring back the viewers, are the majority young viewers anyways and watch it regardless.

However, the guy is 38 isn't he?