EastEnders favourite Danny Dyer has revealed to Metro that he was more than happy to return to the BBC soap for its 40th anniversary – but bosses have ‘missed the boat’. The show will celebrate the milestone with a live episode that invites viewers to decide the outcome of a love triangle.
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It will also expose the attacker of Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins), stage the return of Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) and explode the Queen Vic, leaving lives on the line. And we could have had Mick at the centre of it all. Boo!. However, the Rivals star admits that he does still think Mick is dead, after the character was last seen plunging into the sea with his fate unknown.
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‘I get this [requests for a return] every day still, and it’s a very much a compliment to me. I think that people still give a f***,’ he reasoned. ‘So look, they haven’t asked me. That’s all I can say. You know, I would have gone back for the 40th, I’ve said this many times, but they didn’t ask me to do that. I think they’ve got some other plans.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. ‘And so I think, because I’m not coming back for 40th I think I missed the boat – it needs to be something special, I think, for Mick to come back.’.
