Sonia Jackson’s DVD tops the fitness charts

Rumours had it that Natalie Cassidy was encouraged to stay dumpy to play frumpy Sonia Jackson for all those years in Albert Square.

Now she’s left the Fowlers and the foulness behind, Natalie has shaved two and a half stones off and is the surprise toast of the fitness DVD market.

Eager to copy Nat’s transformation, women have been buying up The Then & Now Work-Out in their droves. The 24-year-old Brit’s DVD is now the biggest and fastest selling fitness programme of all time.

Her record-breaking DVD is made up of pretty hardcore boxing moves, tummy crunches and enthusiastic workouts that has fly-kicked competitors like Davina and Coieen Nolan onto the ropes.

Reports are abound that Tesco has been forced to restock many of it’s stores three times over and hungry dieters are snapping up copies on eBay for well over the recommended retail price (£14.99).

It’s not hard to see why. Nat has dropped four dress sizes - from size 16 to size eight, reinvented herself and somehow managed to look around ten times prettier than ever before. Londoner, Natalie, has gone from a heavy 10 stone eight pounds down to a mag cover-worthy eight stone one pound and is now in talks to host a weekly fitness show on ITV1. Natalie Cassidy: The next Mad Lizzie?