Sporting celebrities from EastEnders, The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island will be descending on the Isle of Sheppey this Friday for a charity football match.

They include EastEnders' actor Dean Gaffney who played Robbie Jackson on the BBC soap from 1993 to 2003 and again in 2017 to 2019.

He also made later guest appearances and in 2006 finished fifth in the ITV series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Other EastEnders in the line-up are likely to include tough guy actor Jake Wood (Max Branning), Danny-Boy Hatchard (Lee Carter) and Sheppey's own teenager Bleu Landau (Dennis 'The Menace' Rickman) who ended up drowned and then appeared in Guy Richie's film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

He's also likely to be pretty nippy around the pitch as he plays for Sheppey United's under-18s team.

Also expected to be kicking off at Holm Park, Halfway, is former The Only Way Is Essex hunk Dan Osborne, who married EastEnders actress Jacqueline Jossa in 2017, Danny Williams from Love Island and Katie Price's ex-husband, male stripper Keiran Hayler.

The late Manchester United heart-throb George Best's son Callum is on the list along with Ex-Spurs player Jamie O'Hara and Danny Kedwell and Kevin Cooper, both formerly of AFC Wimbledon.

The latest to join the crew is football freestyler Jeremy Lynch.

They will be helping raise money for the Oliver Fisher neonatal unit at Medway Maritime Hospital at Gillingham.

The night has been put together by father-of-four Matt Theobald whose 15-year-old son Jake was saved by the hospital's staff.

Matt, 38, from Lower Halstow, said: "Jake is a severely disabled young lad. He is blind, suffers from epilepsy and has cerebral palsy. We lost his twin at birth but staff at Medway fought to save Jake. I thought this would be a good way to help pay them back."

Tickets are £10 (£5 under-16s and pensioners) on the gate or via trybooking.com here. All appearances are subject to work commitments. Gates open at 6pm. Kick-off is at 7.30pm