Danielle Harold: Lola could find love with Fatboy

Danielle Harold: Lola could find love with Fatboy
Danielle Harold: Lola could find love with Fatboy

EastEnders star Danielle Harold has said she thinks her screen alter ego Lola Pearce could spark up a romance with Arthur "Fatboy" Chubb. Speaking to Inside Soap magazine, the teenage star revealed that she gets on well with Ricky Norwood, who plays Fatboy and would love to work with him more. And she added he could be a good potential love interest for Lola in Walford. "Lola's not one for relationships," Danielle said. "I know Fatboy is a bit old for Lola, but they both have similar attitudes, as they're really streetwise. I actually think they'd bounce off each other quite well if they did get together." However Danielle insists she is nothing like the scruffy, moody teen she plays in the soap, and admitted she would love to make Lola a bit more glamorous. "I'd take her to a beauty salon to get her hair done and sort out her roots," she revealed. "I'd love to do that for myself, because I have to grow them out for Lola." "Sometimes the make-up team have to paint my roots in if they're not clear enough, but it is much easier for everyone if I just leave them to grow out. I'm pretty much Lola all the time as a result of that!"

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.