Patsy Palmer bans the news from being on in her home because it is "so horrible" to watch.

Patsy Palmer

Patsy Palmer

The 'EastEnders' star - who has kids Charley, 27, Fenton, 18, Emilia, 17 and Bertie, eight - now lives in Malibu, California, but she doesn't tune into the goings on in the US or back in the UK because she would rather not "fill her mind with all the bad things happening in the world".

When asked what TV she turns off, she replied: "The news. It's so horrible here.

"I don't like it on at all, especially around Bertie.

"I don't want to fill my mind with all the bad things happening in the world."

But Patsy - who is returning to 'EastEnders' as Bianca Jackson next week - does miss watching comedy panel shows, and sometimes switches on an old episode of improv programme 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', which aired from 1988 to 1999 and was hosted by Clive Anderson.

She said: "I miss British TV.

"I miss the panel shows, the comedy.

"Sometimes I watch an old 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - it still makes me laugh."

Patsy admits she doesn't watch a lot of TV, but loved the first series of Ricky Gervais' sitcom 'After Life'.

She added to Radio Times magazine: "In the mornings we have Disney on for Bertie.

"We don't watch much, but I loved 'After Life' with Ricky Gervais. It was so funny and so sad."

And Patsy isn't the only 'EastEnders' star who is a big fan of the comedy show - Jessie Wallace (Kat Moon) previously asked Ricky if she could be in the second series.

She tweeted: "can i be in it? (sic)"

And former 'Coronation Street' star Hayley Tamaddon (Andrea Beckett) is also up for a part in the programme.

In response to Jessie's tweet, she wrote: "Exactly what I said!"

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