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Trevor Short is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, played by Phil McDermott.
Trevor was the inseparable sidekick of Paul Priestly. He was a well-meaning individual but he wasn't blessed with much intelligence and he managed to mess up almost every job he was given. He had several crushes on the younger women of Walford, but despite his best efforts he never managed to find a girlfriend.
Trevor arrived in June 1989 in search of his friend, the builder Paul Priestly, who had roomed with him briefly at a youth hostel. Paul wasn't pleased to see Trevor initially, but he nevertheless found him a job working on a construction site with him.
A dim-witted individual "two biscuits short of a box" was how they described him in The Queen Vic. His life had been hard. Rejected by his parents, he spent his youth in and out of children's homes and never really felt that he belonged anywhere as a result.