David was born on the 18th April 1962 and is the son of Pat Evans and her first husband Pete Beale. Pat and Pete split up when David and his brother Simon Wicks were young and Pat remarried to Brian Wicks, who adopted both David and Simon (who turned out to be Brian's biological son). Meanwhile Pete remarried to Kathy Sullivan(nè Hills) and had another son, Ian. Pete had no further contact with David and Simon when they moved away from Walford in 1976.