Danny Dyer appears to have hinted that he didn't quite get on with everyone while he was working on EastEnders. The actor left the BBC One soap on Christmas Day after his character, Mick Carter became seemingly lost in the English Channel.
The Queen Vic landlord had been trying to rescue his wife Janine Butcher and ex-wife Linda Carter from the waves after all hell broke loose above the pub amid the Christmas festivities. After discovering that his new bride had engineered the break-up of his former marriage by framing Linda as the cause of a car crash, Mick refused to let her get away.
A dramatic car chase followed as Mick and Linda followed Janine, played by Charlie Brooks, to Dover. After a scuffle on the clifftop, Linda and Janine were then seen plummeting in a car into the water below Mick was then seen jumping into the water - and after finding the car - followed Linda’s instructions to help Janine first as she is pregnant with his baby.
However after noticing that Linda had not come out of the water Mick then jumped back in, unaware that she had crawled onto the shore. And he hasn't been seen since.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, which airs on Saturday night (February 25), for the first time since his EastEnders exit, Danny shared that he 'does miss' many of the stars he worked with on the soap and that he 'loves them dearly.' But when pressed by host Jonathan, the 45-year-old coyly admitted that 'not all' of the soap's cast have made him feel the same way - but didn't name any names.
Jonathan asks of his EastEnders co-stars: "Who will you miss the least?" to which Danny replies: "There's a few of them actually, I ain't going to lie. I won't say [who], you know. Most of them I love dearly. Not all…" As Jonathan quizzes: "So they know who they are, though?" Danny answers: "I would have thought so."
Discussing his departure from EastEnders, Danny says: "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.
"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. It's all warm and lovely but to make it look like the sea they put broccoli juice in it. You smell of a***. It's f***ing broccoli juice. Warm broccoli juice. It was very emotional, but I stunk. I do miss the people there, there's no two ways about it but it's a new chapter for me."
And when Jonathan pointed out that viewers never saw Mick's body, meaning the door has been left open for his character to make a dramatic return in the future, Danny said: "If it goes t**s up I can go back. I can turn up in three years' time, walk in the Queen Vic smothered in seaweed… They wanted to keep it open. I'm very privileged and grateful for that job. It really did change my career and my life."
The Jonathan Ross Show returns on Saturday, February 25, at 9:40pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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