30 DAILY STAR, Saturday, April 19, 2008 31 EXCLUSIVE: WE GET DANGEROUSLY UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH SOAP’S MR EVIL AND FIND OUT WHY HE WANTS TO HIT PETE DOHERTY

OFF HIS CHEST: ■ Chris bares his all to us. Inset right, on Dancing On Ice with rivals Suzanne and Zaraah Abrahams, 20. Far right, as Justin in Hollyoaks, chatting to Clare and getting Bad things happen Katy all carried away when he’s around

CHRIS FOUNTAIN is a massive deal was made of it.”

Pictures: CELEBRITYPICTURES.CO.UK telling me some of Chris, however, didn’t take a the stuff that hacks particularly close interest in what happened to Jo herself. him off. “After the show, I didn’t real- Turns out he hates ly speak to her,” he reveals. “I cyclists, for example. And texted her a couple of times muck-rakers who hassle his and she didn’t text me back, so family. I kind of just thought she didn’t Oh, and Pete Doherty, the really want to keep in touch.” bloke Chris reckons he’d Chris doesn’t plan to do any least like to be stuck in a lift more reality TV himself. “I with. “I’d probably hit With CHRIS don’t see the point of Big him,” he admits. Brother or I’m A Celebrity.” All of which is great to He is itching to branch out. hear. After all, Chris did FOUNTAIN His dream role, he TEASE: such a fine job on says, would be in Prison Break ■ Nancy, Dancing On Ice – not just or Lost. played by in finishing second, but becued alive, etc. Justin does But since he recently signed up Ice tour we’re doing and yet “I love playing Justin,” he Jessica Fox, in showing the nation OK with the girls (since arriv- for another year, taking him that televised final was a public insists, “but when I come out of 24, tickled he’s a world apart from ing in November 2003, aged 16, though to next March, the pro- vote. So I’m thinking: ‘Why this I’d like to play someone Justin’s Justin Burton, the dan- he’s bedded Nicole, Becca, ducers will want to milk what didn’t they all vote for me?’” completely different.” fancy gerous screw-up he plays Sasha, Clare, Katy and Nancy), could be his final stint. I tell Chris I was impressed on Hollyoaks – that I was but his life has been more Chris was a keen performer with how generous he was in Talent worried he’d gone too far about grief than gropes. from nappies, growing up in defeat. But he confesses that’s Even if that meant putting on the other way. Chris, now 20, rattles off Bradford with mum Lynda – not how he was feeling inside. six stone, say, and having his some random examples. “He his dad left home when he was “I was thinking: ‘Oh, f**k!’ I’d face bitten off by a dog? “Yeah, Sick shoved his sister through a a baby. She found his first TV said I wasn’t that desperate to definitely – that’s my job!” After all, people can be window, punched his mum, got acting job at just 11, through a win it. But getting to the final, I So, OK, Chris can act, sing, TOO nice. So come on, sent to boot camp, started tak- contact at her cleaning job. really wanted to. It was like: dance, skate – and he’s not bad Chris, tell us what else gets ing drugs, got off drugs, went Fond of dancing and karaoke, ‘Shit, I’m a bit gutted now.’ at footie, by all accounts. your goat. back on drugs, heard his dad he was in a boy band Nau-T by “But, like I say, I’ve been He’s also received two Sexiest “Well, seeing bad stuff hap- committed suicide. 13 and, despite schoolground getting a huge reaction. More Actor nominations, which I’m pen to old people really makes “Then his brother got stabbed taunts for “being gay”, Chris than Suzanne, sometimes.” sure must be a comfort as he’s me sick,” he says. “If anyone and run over, then his sisters was set on a career on telly. Dancing On Ice was not not in a relationship right now. mugged my gran, for instance, burnt to death and his mum Chris’s first shot at reality telly. (“There’s someone I’m interest- I’d go absolutely ballistic. pissed off, then he got his Vote In 2006, he finished third in ed in, but I’m all over the place “I’d probably go out searching teacher pregnant, then she got Finishing runner-up on BBC1’s duet show Just The Two at the moment so it’s not like for them. I’d turn into Justin!” killed in prison...” Dancing On Ice (and let’s be Of Us – paired with former S anything can happen.”) And turning into Justin, of Funny, but Chris seems to honest, he was robbed) Club star Jo O’Meara, 28. So how come, with all this tal- course, would not be good. have forgotten he became an confirmed that the guy’s one His singing partner, of ent, he’s such a decent, Not because the character attempted murderer (trying to hell of an all-rounder. course, would go on to be down-to-earth bloke and not a oozes evil from every kill evil Clare) and a hit-and- He is only frustrated that he caught up in that racism storm cocky git? pore, but because bad run victim on the same night. got pipped by Suzanne Shaw, on Celebrity Big Brother. “It’s just I’ve been brought up stuff happens whenev- “Yeah, of course! In fact, I’m 26, on the final night. “To be honest, I didn’t actual- to appreciate everything I’ve er he’s around. surprised he’s not topped him- I take it he hates her, right? ly watch any of that Big been given,” he tells me. “If I People get maimed, self. Everything bad that could “No, I don’t! It’d be easier if I Brother series,” Chris tells me. ever got big-headed, my mum murdered, happen to Justin has happened did. But it’s weird, because I’m “But I know what happened. would give me a slap!” banged to him.” getting a massive reaction from What people said in there was ● Hollyoaks is on Channel 4 up, bar- Or so Chris reckons. the public on the Dancing On obviously wrong, but I do think every weekday at 6.30pm.

UNDER HIS SPELL: Justin has bedded Clare, left (Gemma Bissix, 24) and, above from top, Katy (Hannah Tointon, 20), Nicole (Ciara Janson, 20), Becca (Ali Bastian, 25) and Sasha (Nathalie Emmanuel, 19) in the hit soap