EastEnders viewers beg bosses to axe ‘pointless’ character – fuming ‘the sooner they leave the better!’

EASTENDERS fans plead bosses to axe a 'pointless' character and leave Walford for good after just years two years in the soap.

Reiss Colwell's (played by Jonny Freeman) current storyline sees him deal with the stress of IVF with partner Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy).

Sonia is yet to learn that Reiss had taken money from his comatose wife Debbie Colwell (Jenny Meier) to pay for their IVF treatment.

BBC viewers have predicted that Debbie could be about to wake up, making any baby-making plans more complicated.

However, some viewers have had enough of Reiss on their screens and plead soap bosses to axe him from the soap.

Taking to social media, one said: "Reiss is so weird. There’s not one thing that’s interesting or attractive about him. Why have they paired Sonia with this plank?"

Another wrote: "What is the point of sonia and reiss?"

A third penned: "can someone write Reiss out of #eastenders plz."

A fourth added: "The sooner Reiss leave the better."

Jonny joined the cast of EastEnders at the end of 2022 as Reiss, who is the great-nephew of the late Dot Branning (June Brown).

He arrived in Walford following Dot's funeral, and struck up a friendship with Sonia which has since turned romantic.

Before joining the BBC soap, Jonny previously appeared in Silent Witness, Top Boy, Holby City, Doctors, and Dalziel and Pascoe.

Away from Albert Square, Jonny is unrecognisable without his character Reiss' signature thick rimmed glasses and unruly beard.

His photos on social media show off his neatly trimmed beard and piercing green eyes.

Fans flocked to the comment section to swoon over the actor's everyday appearance.

One wrote: "Very handsome, should have kept him like that."

A second said: "What a difference... shocker."

A third person exclaimed: "Omg he is so good looking, he looks so different in real life."

EastEnders airs Mondays to Thursdays at 7:30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.