A former Tracy Beaker star has shocked fans by announcing a raunchy career change after caving in to their demands.
Richard Wisker, who played Liam O’Donovan in the CBBC series, is worlds away from the beloved drama as he amasses a pool of monthly adult subscribers instead.
The actor, 29, appeared in CBBC’s Tracy Beaker Returns from 2010 to 2012 and reprised the same role in the spin-off show The Dumping Ground in 2014 and 2018.
Now he has made a complete U-turn by stepping out of the children’s entertainment world and into the racy adult site OnlyFans.
Richard, who confirmed last year that he had signed up to the platform, hinted that the decision to join the website was due to an influx of requests from his followers.
At the time, he posted a snap of himself lying down and posing for the camera as well as a shirtless picture to his Instagram story.
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He captioned the snap: “So you have all been asking… I have listened… Only for the next couple of hours – hit the link for the best deal ever. It’s basically for free, I guess.”
He also included a link to his OnlyFans page, which is still active as of 2024 and claims to contain “VIP exclusive content”.
Besides Tracy Beaker, Richard’s first TV appearance was in 2008 on ITV1’s The Bill.
He then starred in Law & Order UK before starring on CBBC’s Tracy Beaker Returns, where he received a nomination for a children’s BAFTA for Best Actor.
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At that time, he also presented CBBC’s Friday Download and appeared alongside Dani Harmer once more as Rich in Dani’s Castle.
In 2015, Dani’s Castle finished, and he reprised his role as Liam again in Tracy Beaker’s spin-off series The Dumping Ground.
Most recently, Richard was cast as the lead in the BBC sitcom Flatmates, where he played Declan from 2019 to 2021.
He’s also due to be appearing in an upcoming movie called Supernova, which has been in post-production since 2019 but has yet to be released.
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Richard’s former cast mates on Tracy Beaker also seem very busy in their careers.
Dani Harman, the lead actress of the former BBC show, joined Strictly in 2012 and then recently graced the theatre stage.
The 34-year-old most recently made a comeback as Tracy for the new spin-off show My Mum Tracy Beaker.
Meanwhile, Tracy Beaker alum Chelsie Padley, who played Louise Goven on The Story Of Tracy Beaker when it first aired back in 2002, announced that she had given birth to her first child last year.
In August 2023, she took to Instagram and shared the happy news of her new arrival.
She posted a snap of the newborn and gushed in the caption: “GOLDIE RAYNER GEORGE. Hi world, I couldn’t wait to meet my Mummy and Daddy any longer, so on Tuesday, when I was 36+1 | gave them a little surprise… 15/08/23. 6lbs 12oz.
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“Pure perfection, we are beyond besotted.”
Chelsie also revealed at the time that the tot she shared with fiancé Iain George was born with jaundice.
