Zammo goes to the square

It has been that Lee McDonald is joining the cast of Eastenders. Best known for playing Zammo McGuire in Grange Hill. His character was at centre of a plot line about drug addiction that saw the cast record a charity single that proved to be so highly successful that the cast then met the then US First Lady Nancy Reagan. Later however one cast member John Alford was convicted of drug dealing in a highly contersial case. McDonald is not the first Grange Hill actor to appear in Eastemders, the 2 most famous being Todd Carty and Susan Tully as on screen brother and sister Mark and Michelle Fowler. Lee will be seen on Eastenders later in the year.