Danny Dyer admits working on EastEnders was ‘f***ing hard’ as he teases return

Former EastEndersactor Danny Dyerhas teased his character' Mick Carter's return to the soap despite admitting being on the show was "f***ing hard"..

Danny, 45, who is about to become a grandfather for the second time, spoke out on the Jonathan Ross Show about leaving the BBC One soap after nine years, in a dramatic Christmas Day episode which involved scenes in the sea.

Danny said: “It’s a very emotional thing, it’s such a big part of me.

“I tell you what it is, I’m lazy. It’s f***ing hard. Thirty pages you’ve got to learn a day. It’s like a film a week. My final scenes were in the sea, in Ramsgate at 2am.

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"We did the exteriors in the sea and the interiors you go to a water tank. But EastEnders couldn’t get Pinewood, so we had to go to Basildon.”

Danny's last episode saw his character Mick trying to save his ex-wife Linda Carter, who he had just reunited with, after she and Janine Butcher drove off a cliff and into the English Channel, where he disappeared at sea.

He said: “It’s all warm and lovely but to make it look like the sea they put broccoli juice in it."

Danny added: "You smell of a***. It’s f***ing broccoli juice. Warm broccoli juice. It was very emotional, but I stunk."

But Danny later went on to admit he did miss his fellow actors, and when Jonathan pointed out that his character’s body was never seen, so he could return, Danny said: “If it goes t**s up I can go back.

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"I can turn up in three years’ time, walk in the Queen Vic smothered in seaweed."

He added: "They wanted to keep it open. I’m very privileged and grateful for that job. It really did change my career and my life.”

Danny continued about his exit: “You don’t have much say in it, I just wanted it to be exciting and quite cinematic. It went down really well, a lot of people were quite touched by it.

"People were sending me all this stuff, TikToks of kids crying, it really upset them.”

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