Tom Chambers set to quit 'Holby'

Tom Chambers set to quit 'Holby'
Tom Chambers set to quit 'Holby' (Image credit: BBC)

Actor Tom Chambers is set to leave Holby City after two years on the show, according to the papers. And The Sun reports that Chambers - who plays registrar Sam Strachan on the BBC1 show - will go out in a blaze of glory in a big Christmas storyline. However show insiders are remaining silent on the actual details. "Tom's departure will leave his fans in tears," a source told the paper, "but Holby bosses are keeping tight-lipped about whether or not Sam will be killed off." Chambers, who is also one of the favourites to win the current series of Strictly Come Dancing, decided earlier this year he would leave Holby when his contract expired. "I was worried about telling the bosses," he said, "but I wrote a long letter to the producers explaining my decision and they were incredibly nice about it." "Sam Strachan has gone through so much in the past year with his cancer - it seemed like the perfect time to make the break. Then Strictly came along!" The paper also reports that Chambers has already been in meetings with BBC and ITV execs about future work, as well as being offered roles in West End musicals.

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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.