Richard Blackwood

Former EastEnders star Richard Blackwood has opened up about his time on the long-running BBC soap and the huge impact of the memorable scene where his character punched Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden). Blackwood played Vincent Hubbard on the soap from 2015 to 2018, and he believes that his role contributed...

Hollyoaks star Richard Blackwood has suggested that his character Felix Westwood and girlfriend Grace Black have got what it takes to ensure that nasty Fergus Collins gets his comeuppance for his troublemaking. It's been clear since Fergus (Robert Beck) arrived in the village that he's prone to villainous ways and...

Hollyoaks spoilers follow. Hollyoaks star Richard Blackwood has opened up about the lessons he learned during the filming of the show's upcoming episode centred on unconscious bias. The special, which is set to air this Wednesday (April 14), will see Martine Deveraux (Kéllé Bryan) and Grace Black (Tamara Wall) seek...

Hollyoaks' spoilers follow. Hollyoaks' spring trailer debuted last week and showed Martine Deveraux and Felix Westwood sharing a kiss, hinting that their old romance might be being rekindled. Of course, it could be a one-off thing, but Felix actor Richard Blackwood has shared his hopes for the pair's future when...

Christopher Alder’s last moments, in April 1998, were unforgivably brutal. Injured in a fight at a nightclub, he took his final breath in police custody. It was an abject death: an unlawful killing that, for his campaigners, represented another instance of a black British man dying in a senseless way.

Richard Blackwood had never wanted to reprise his latest role. He was relieved when he came to the end of the run of the play Typical in 2019, which tells the true story of former paratrooper Christopher Alder, 37, who choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull in 1998.