EastEnders star Bobby Brazier has addressed the recent speculation about his love life.

The actor, who plays Freddie Slater on the BBC soap, has been the subject of many romance rumours

over the last year.

Bobby was previously rumoured to have been in a relationship with his EastEnders co-star Jazzy Phoenix, as well as MAFS star Ella Morgan and former Coronation Street actor Ellie Leach – though he later quashed all the speculation.

Now, Bobby has revealed he finds it “funny” when reports about his relationships begin to circulate.

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“I just imagine that people don’t really care,” he told The Evening Standard. “I mean, surely people don’t really care, or surely people understand to take things with a little pinch of salt. But I find it funny.”

Bobby, who made it to the final of Strictly Come Dancing last year with professional partner Dianne Buswell, went on to explain that he hopes to continue dancing with “the love of my life”.

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“Even before Strictly, I’ve always had this dream of moving away to maybe Italy or wherever with the love of my life,” he said.

“We’re both old and wrinkly, and we’re just in ballroom hold dancing up and down the streets – not very well, because we can’t move, but you know, we’re in a hold at least.”

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Bobby recently returned to Walford alongside Laila Morse (Mo Harris), following Freddie’s temporary departure after his attack on Theo Hawthorne.

The actor has also landed a new TV role in the upcoming Paramount+ drama Curfew, starring opposite Sarah Parish, Mandip Gill and Alexandra Burke, as well as fellow EastEnders stars Lucy Benjamin, Anita Dobson and Larry Lamb.

Based on the novel After Dark by Jayne Cowie, the series follows a parallel society where men are ankle-tagged and have to adhere to a daily 7pm-7am curfew as part of ‘The Women’s Safety Act’.