WALFORD favourite Jessie Wallace and her former drug addict boyfriend Tim
Arnold have split because he’s “tired” of fame.
Jessie, 44, who plays Kat Moon in the BBC soap, began dating Tim in 2012 after
they were introduced to each other at the British Soap Awards.
Despite auditioning for TV talent show The Voice last year, Tim insists that
he wants to distance himself from fame.
Confirming that he and Jessie are no longer together, he said: “People just
want to know about the celebrities you know or have been with. I am tired of
it.”
Asked how long it had been since they had gone their separate ways, he told
The Mirror: “Oh, not for a long time.”
The 40-year-old is the godson of Jessie’s co-star June Brown who plays
EastEnders stalwart Dot Branning.
June once paid for him to attend a three-week trip to Thailand’s Thamkrabok
monastery where monks treated him for an addiction to cocaine.
She once said: “Tim had got to the point where all of us feared he might die.
“His skin wasn’t very good, his teeth were discoloured and his nature changed.
He became deceitful, because he was always lying, trying to get money to
feed his habit.”
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Jessie has had her share of heartache in the past.
In 2011 he had been due to walk down the aisle with Vince Morse, but called it
all off on their wedding day after discovering he had been sending explicit
texts to an ex.
Before that she was with policeman Dave Morgan who she met in 2007.
Although sharing a daughter together, seven-year-old Tallulah, that
relationship failed to go the distance.
She then moved on to Andy Burton, who was six years her junior.
That relationship came to an end when he spoke to the press about their
romance.
Her search for Mr right continues.