EastEnders and Grange Hill icon Lee MacDonald diagnosed with cancer | Soaps [Video]

Grange Hill legend Lee MacDonald, best known for his role as Zammo McGuire in the cult BBC One Soap, has announced he is battling skin cancer.

The actor, 56, appeared as troubled school pupil Zammo for five years between 1982 and 1987, and during that time was the star behind one of it’s most controversial storylines.

The plot, which saw him spiral into a heroin addiction, and later overdose on a bathroom floor, inspired a campaign against drug abuse peer pressure.

Inspired by phrase coined by then-First Lady of the USA Nancy Reagan, the cast recorded a Top 10 hit called ‘Just Say No’, that would later be performed in The White House in 1986.

In 2019, he starred in EastEnders as Terry, a bus driver that Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) tracked down to buy Spice Girls tickets from when the two both entered the same radio competition.

After he refused to sell up, Mick returned …