DANNY Dyer has admitted leaving EastEnders because “it’s f***ing hard work and I’m lazy”.
The actor – who played Mick Carter in the BBC soap – left the soap on Christmas Day when the Queen Vic landlord was lost at sea.
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Danny, 44, will appear on The Jonathan Ross show this Saturday to talk about his dramatic soap exit after nine years.
“It’s a very emotional thing, it’s such a big part of me.
Danny admits: “I do miss the people there, there’s no two ways about it but it’s a new chapter for me.”
He adds: “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.”
He continued: “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.”
After Jonathan points out his character’s body was never seen, so he could return, Danny says: “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…”
He continues: “They wanted to keep it open. I’m very privileged and grateful for that job. It really did change my career and my life.”
But he also admitted having a secret feud with some of his co-stars.
Asked by the host about who he would miss the least, Danny said: “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…”
Jonathan asked: “So they know who they are, though?”
Danny replied: “I would have thought so.”
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