Danny Dyer has hinted at a secret feud with his EastEnders co-stars in a cryptic comment after bidding an "emotional" farewell to the iconic soap following his nine-year stint on the show.
The 45-year-old went out with a bang in his final scenes as Mick Carter airing on Christmas Day, which saw the Queen Vic landlord mysteriously lost at sea after plunging into the water to save his estranged wife Linda.
And according to reports by the MailOnline, the soap star revealed that, if his career goes "t**s up", he may head back to Albert Square in a few year's time, joking he would arrive back in Walford "covered in seaweed" following a salty exit.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, which airs on Saturday, the soap actor adds that he "does miss" many of the stars he worked with on the show, and he "loves them dearly."
However, when pressed by host Jonathan, the star coyly says "not all" of the EastEnders cast hold a special place in his heart but he refused to name any which has fuelled a social media frenzy into the speculations of who he could be talking about.
Discussing his departure from the soap, 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."
Jonathan pointed out during the interview that viewers never saw Mick's body after he plunged into the depths of the ocean, leaving the potential for his character to have an iconic return in the future.
Danny then adds: "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."
Discussing his exit he continues: "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."
Jonathan asks Danny about his 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 presses: "So they know who they are, though?"
Danny responds almost sarcastically: "I would have thought so."
Danny's character came into the show back in 2013 with his on-screen wife Linda, played by Kellie Bright, and their children.
But after the teenage sweethearts' initial stint, Mick and Linda parted ways with Mick re-marrying Janine Butcher, played by Charlie Brooks.
After realising Janine's deception, Mick and Linda rekindled their relationship, but things ended in devastating fashion as Janine's car plunged into the ocean.
The Jonathan Ross Show airs on Saturday at 9:40pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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