Matt Lapinskas, who played Anthony Moon on 'EastEnders' from 2011 until 2012, has revealed the abrupt way he was informed of his exit from the BBC soap.
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00:00And then a new producer came in, and everyone was having meetings with her, and I remember
00:22it was my time to go up to have a meeting with her, and I'd written down a load of ideas
00:26for myself. I'd just had a whole new wardrobe done as well, like they'd spent a lot of money
00:30on all my new clothes, and I remember going up there, and I remember walking past Ricky
00:35Norwood, Perry, a few others, and they were like, joking about going, oh, off to go get
00:41your P45, Matt. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Went up there, and that was it,
00:44yeah.
00:45And she said, yeah, we're letting you go. And I had to go back to her and say, and I
00:53remember telling you.
00:54Literally just in a meeting?
00:55Yeah, just in a meeting.
00:56That's how they do it?
00:57I had like, I had two or three things to do that day as well, so I had to go back down
01:00and talk to her, and I said, mate, I'm going.
01:23Yeah.