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Comedian Kathy Burke turned down a role in Eastenders - all because she apparently 'hates' the programme. The 60-year-old entertainer may be friends with EastEnders' Billy Mitchell actor Perry Fenwick, but she has openly admitted her disdain for the BBC soap.
On her podcast 'Where There's A Will, There's A Wake', Kathy revealed: "I was asked to do 'EastEnders' and no, no, no, I f****** hate 'EastEnders'. I can't stand it."
She confessed that even hearing the theme tune gives her a negative reaction. She said: "In fact, if I'm flicking my television, even if I hear the theme - I have a real 'EEUURGHH' reaction to it."
Despite her feelings towards the show, she expressed respect for the cast and crew, saying: "Sorry to everybody involved. I know everyone's got a job to do - I admire you all greatly, but nah!"
Perry Fenwick appeared on Kathy's podcast in 2023, where he shared that he "spent a lot of time in hospital" as a child due to several near-death experiences. He told Kathy: "From the age of none to ten, I think I spent quite a lot of that time in hospital. I electrocuted myself when I was three. I was playing with a bowl of soapy water on the rug, and I thought how interesting it would be to put those three fingers of mine in the water and put them in that plug hole in the wall."
Perry continued: "I fell off a bridge. We used to have an iron bridge near where I lived, and you used to have to do this dare where you walked over the arch of this bridge. I had a wobble, fell off of it, and it was about twenty-five to thirty feet."
He added: "There was a little stream running underneath it with these mud banks next to it and luckily for me, someone had got into DIY early by removing some of the railway sleepers, otherwise as this was in the '60s, if I would have hit one of them, that would have been it."
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