An 80s and 90s heartthrob looked unrecognisable as he ran errands in EsSєx on Tueday.

The former actor, 61, who found fame on a beloved soap 40 years ago, looked in good spirits as he departed a Marks & Spencer.

The TV star was dressed casually for the day, sporting a light blue printed T-shirt along with a pair of jeans.

Her also wrapped up in a blakc jacket and added to his look with a trendy pair of sunglᴀsses. 

The star stepped out 13 years after quitting TV to be a stay at home dad. 

But can you guess who he is?

An 80s and 90s heartthrob looked unrecognisable as he ran errands in EsSєx on Tueday

The star stepped out 13 years after quitting TV to be a stay at home dad. But can you guess who he is? 

That’s right, it’s forme EastEnders and Heartbeat star Nick Berry.      

Nick sH๏τ to fame portraying Simon Wicks in EastEnders and Sergeant Nick Rowan in Heartbeat in the 80s and 90s.

The star, 60, who made his last TV appearance in 2012 at the funeral of his on-screen EastEnders’ mother Pat Butcher, cut a very low-key figure on the outing.

Nick had a stellar acting career on British television but stepped away from the screen aged 39 to raise his two sons.

After springing to fame as Simon Wicks in EastEnders in 1985, Berry left in 1990 and decamped to the Yorkshire Dales for a six year stint as Heartbeat’s Sergeant Nick Rowan, before taking on the role of harbour master Mike Nicholls in Harbour Lights.

He reached heartthrob status with hordes of screaming fans besieging the BBC studios where the soap was filmed.

There was even a brief pop career too: in 1986 Berry released a single, Every Loser Wins, which became the second biggest-selling record in the UK that year.

Save for filming police drama In Deep as police detective Liam Ketman alongside Stephen Tompkinson, which ran from 2001-2003, Berry disappeared from view.

That’s right, it’s forme EastEnders and Heartbeat star Nick Berry

The TV star was dressed casually for the day, sporting a light blue printed T-shirt along with a pair of jeans

Her also wrapped up in a black jacket and added to his look with a trendy pair of sunglᴀsses

He turned his back on acting to become a stay-at-home father to his two sons Louis, now 29, and 26-year-old Finley.

At one point, he was rumoured to have been offered a £2million golden-handcuffs deal by EastEnders executives when he resigned in the late Eighties.

He was said to have amᴀssed an estimated £5million from his time in the spotlight – enough to fund a rambling house in Epping, EsSєx, and a beach house in Hove.

Speaking to the Daily Mail in 2011 about his decision to step away from the spotlight, he said: ‘I chose to be a stay-at-home dad and have loved it…

‘I always said that when the boys were teenagers I could go back, but the longer you don’t do something the harder it is to do it, and I haven’t really missed it. While I’d never say never, I’m genuinely happy as I am.’

At one point, Nick (right) was rumoured to have been offered a £2million golden-handcuffs deal by EastEnders executives when he resigned in the late Eighties

‘The job was great. You’re driven everywhere, fed every five minutes and told what to do and where to go. What I struggled with was that the boys were very young and I felt like I was away filming all the time…

‘I’d been blessed with these little people and yet I wasn’t really there. I realised I wanted to be at home.’

Despite his spectacular screen success, east London-born Berry said he wasn’t a natural actor.

He said: ‘I was never that comfortable in the spotlight. Some of the egos you can do without. A lot of actors take themselves so seriously but, by and large, you’re getting paid to show off.’