{"id":91559,"date":"2025-05-11T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91559\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:09:11","slug":"danny-dyer-launches-into-furious-tirade-against-eastenders-as-he-brands-scripts-st-calls-co-stars-jessie-wallace-and-shane-richie-cs-and-accuses-bosses-of-turning-cast-into-lunatics-by-lac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91559\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Dyer launches into furious tirade against EastEnders as he brands scripts ‘s**t’, calls co-stars Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie ‘c***s’ and accuses bosses of turning cast into ‘lunatics’ by lack of duty of care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danny Dyer<\/a> has revealed his true feelings about EastEnders<\/a>\u00a0as he hit out at the soap storylines, bosses and his former co-stars in a swear-filled rant.<\/p>\n

The actor, 47, starred as Mick Carter on the BBC<\/a> show for nine years, earning a whopping quarter of a million pounds a year at the height of his stint, before his explosive exit on Christmas<\/a> Day 2022.<\/p>\n

However, reflecting on his time on the soap at a charity night at Wimbledon<\/a> Club on Friday, Danny slammed the workload, declaring he had been ‘off his nut’ on prescription drugs and had ended up in rehab twice because of the show.<\/p>\n

Calling out co-stars Jessie Wallace<\/a> and Shane Richie<\/a>, Danny brazenly branded them ‘c***s’ as he claimed they had blanked both him and his onscreen wife\u00a0Kellie Bright.<\/p>\n

Recalling his arrival on the soap in 2013, the Rivals star said it was not a warm welcome, describing the set as ‘a very cliquey place to work’.<\/p>\n

He claimed his taking over the Queen Vic caused Jessie and\u00a0Shane, who played previous pub landlords\u00a0Kat Slater and\u00a0Alfie Moon, to ‘have the hump’.<\/p>\n

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Danny Dyer has revealed his true feelings about EastEnders , as he hit out at the soap storylines, bosses and his former co-stars, at a charity night at Wimbledon Club on Friday<\/p>\n

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Calling out co-stars Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie , the Rivals star branded them ‘c***s’ as he claimed they had blanked both him and his onscreen wife Kellie Bright\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to The Sun<\/a>, Danny boldly said: ‘There were a lot of people blanking us when we first turned up and me and Kellie thought “You know what, f**k these c***s, let\u2019s get together and show them something different” – we had to prove ourselves over six months.’<\/p>\n

Danny also hit out at the soap opera’s storylines, particularly Mick’s ‘mental’ romance with\u00a0Janine Butcher, insisting ‘a lot of it is s**t’.<\/p>\n

As well as being unimpressed with his own character’s fate, he raged over the decision to kill off Lola Pearce last year from a brain tumour, which he said ‘wasted’ actress Danielle Harold’s talents.<\/p>\n

The Sun<\/a> also claimed he slammed the BBC for not giving the cast sufficient duty of care, claiming they wouldn’t allow actors time off to go to a family member’s funeral – allegations which the BBC has denied.<\/p>\n

Danny – who was paid around \u00a3250,000 a year on the soap – said that while the salary was good, the stars had ‘no life’ and claimed the dark storylines ‘messed lots of people’s heads up’, insisting they were ‘lunatics’.<\/p>\n

‘You earn good money, but you ain\u2019t got time to go to a cashpoint, you have no life,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘There\u2019s not much duty of care, that\u2019s the truth, on EastEnders there is no messing about and you\u2019ve got to do it, it\u2019s the hardest part of our job.’<\/p>\n

‘It messes a lot of people\u2019s heads up, most people are off their nut, you meet them on the street, they\u2019re lunatics I\u2019m telling you – institutionalised,’ he added.<\/p>\n

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The actor, 47, starred as Mick Carter on the BBC show for nine years, earning a whopping quarter of a million pounds a year at the height of hit stint, before his explosive exit in 2022<\/p>\n

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Danny also hit out at the soap storylines, particularly Mick’s romance with Janine Butcher, insisting ‘a lot of it is s**t’<\/p>\n

He also claimed that bosses put antiseptic into the beer barrels in the Queen Vic in order to prevent him from drinking from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In response to Danny’s comments, a spokesperson for EastEnders stated: ‘We would never discuss an individual\u2019s private matters, however, we do not recognise these claims.<\/p>\n

‘EastEnders has extremely robust and well-established procedures in place to\u00a0safeguard the welfare of everyone who works on the show.’<\/p>\n

MailOnline has contacted representatives for Danny, Jessie and Shane for comment.<\/p>\n

Danny played Queen Vic landlord Mick on the BBC soap for nine years until his dramatic Christmas 2022 exit in a cliffside car chase, which left him presumed dead as his body was never found.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his show exit, he previously admitted that he became disillusioned with his character and felt like Mick had ‘lost his way’.<\/p>\n

His character came into the show back in 2013 with wife Linda, played by Kellie, and their children.<\/p>\n

But after the happy couple’s initial stint, things would eventually change, with the teenage sweetheart parting ways and Mick re-marrying Janine, played by Charlie Brooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Dyer has revealed his true feelings about EastEnders\u00a0as he hit out at the soap storylines, bosses and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,92,24777,428,77,43144,43145,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-danny-dyer","11":"tag-eastenders","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jessie-wallace","14":"tag-shane-richie","15":"tag-tvshowbiz","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114486769551135192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}