 In April 2010 , six main characters were axed from EastEnders by executive producer Bryan Kirkwood . Fatboy was not one of them , but Stuart Heritage from The Guardian felt that he should have been , calling him " A <unk> of irritating comic relief [ ... ] who is yet to serve a purpose other than making me genuinely dislike young people . [ ... ] He must go , preferably in a scene where he falls down the world 's largest flight of stairs . " Heritage later called Fatboy an " obnoxiously two @-@ dimensional dubstep @-@ fixated stock [ character ] transparently modelled on Jar Jar Binks . " A writer for the website Watch With Mothers called the character an asset to EastEnders , expressing pleasure that the show was trying to appeal to younger viewers , while another called him irritating and zany . A writer for The Northern Echo wondered if Fatboy , along with Leon and Zsa Zsa , brought a new injection of life into the soap or took away screen time from more established characters , and Caroline Fitton , writing for the Daily Mail , felt that Fatboy 's style of talking was a bit of a cliché . Grace Dent from The Guardian changed her opinion of Fatboy over time , saying : 
