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Tributes pour in following the death of former Hollyoaks actor

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Tributes to a popular actor and musician have been made following his sudden death at the age of just 38.

Kristian Ealey, who played Matt Musgrove in Brookside between 1998 and 2000 before taking a place among the Hollyoaks cast until 2004, has been honoured by former co-stars and colleagues this week.

The actor and father, who later became a member of popular Liverpool band Tramp Attack, is understood to have gone to sleep with a pain in his arm and tragically never work up.

Paying tribute to the performer who played Ringo Starr in In His Life: The John Lennon Story, Brookside co-star Suzanne Collins said: "I'm very privileged to have called him a friend."

"There were a gang of the young ones who grew up on the set of Brookside, we called ourselves the Brooki Brat Pack and have an incredible bond."

"We were together nearly every day on set and we socialised out of work together, we became family," she said of the actor who passed away while working in Italy. "It has shocked us all to the core. Kris was full of life, full of smiles and so full of music,"

Equally stunned by Kristian's passing, Hollyoaks star, Gemma Atkinsons, tweeted: "Just awful. What a lovely, lovely man! Had many laughs with him at work back in the day… RIP."

Paying tribute to the popular star, Hollyoaks production company Lime Pictures said: "Many crew worked with Kristian on both Hollyoaks and Brookside and enjoyed following his musical success after leaving the show."

Speaking to Digital Spy, they confirmed: "The news has been met with shock and sadness on set and everyone's thoughts are with his family at this time."

Our thoughts go out to Kristian's friends and family.

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