Joe Swash hasn't "once" been asked to return to 'EastEnders' since he left the show 12 years ago.
Joe Swash hasn't 'once' been asked to return to EastEnders since he left the show 12 years ago
The 41-year-old actor portrayed Mickey Miller in the BBC One soap from 2003 to 2008 and then for two episodes in September 2011, but now he would like to return to Albert Square, despite bosses not asking him back.
When asked by Carol Vorderman on tonight's (05.05.23) 'I’m A Celebrity... South Africa' about whether he would want to head back to Walford, he said: "I wouldn’t mind it.
"You know exactly what you’re doing, when you’re doing it, how you’re doing it.
"But they’ve never asked me mate, not once."
But Joe admits he had the "worst" exit ever, and he didn't ever have to act out one of the famous "doof doof" ending scenes in his five years on the soap.
He added: "I had the worst outro ever! I didn’t even leave at the end of the episode.
"So usually you leave at the end of the episode and you get the ‘doof doof’.
"Mine, I went to Norwich to be a bell boy at a hotel and mid scene I just walked into the Vic and went, ‘Right, see you later’.
"They turned back to Phil, turned back to me and I’d gone.
"I was like ‘What, that’s it?’ I was there five years and not one doof doof!"
Joe later reiterated that none of the 'EastEnders' bosses have asked him to reprise his role as Mickey since he departed the show.
He says in the Bush Telegraph: "People think I can phone up 'EastEnders' and go, 'I’m ready to come back now guys.'
"They have not phoned me. Let me make this clear ... 'EastEnders' have never phoned me to get me back on the show."
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