Landing a role in EastEnders was the thing that helped Martin Kemp recover “more than anything else”, the Spandau Ballet bassist has said.
The 61-year-old starred as villain Steve Owen in the popular BBC One soap between 1998 and 2002.
Appearing on the Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett, Kemp said when he was offered the role, he was urged by friends not to accept it.
“Everybody around me was saying, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it. It’s going to ruin your career, don’t do it’,” he recalled. “Well because they hadn’t had any name actors in that show before, right?
“Everybody had grown up with EastEnders, so I was kind of the first one of those name actors to go in.”
Kemp says he was offered the role around five years after he’d gone through “ the whole brain tumour business” in the mid-Nineties,...
The 61-year-old starred as villain Steve Owen in the popular BBC One soap between 1998 and 2002.
Appearing on the Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett, Kemp said when he was offered the role, he was urged by friends not to accept it.
“Everybody around me was saying, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it. It’s going to ruin your career, don’t do it’,” he recalled. “Well because they hadn’t had any name actors in that show before, right?
“Everybody had grown up with EastEnders, so I was kind of the first one of those name actors to go in.”
Kemp says he was offered the role around five years after he’d gone through “ the whole brain tumour business” in the mid-Nineties,...
- 11/16/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - TV
Death! Destruction! Whodunits with cliffhanger endings! From Lucy Beale to Tina McIntyre to (almost) Ross Barton, there's been a lot of murders in soapland lately.
We've taken the big five soaps and crunched the numbers to discover the deadliest (and safest) places to live. How? By dividing the total murders by the show's number of years on air. We've been strict with the rules, so accidental killings don't count unless there was malicious intent. We also don't allow murders that occur miles away from the main location (unless it was somehow started there, like the Neighbours plane bomb).
Yep, we know it's morbid, but it's grimly fascinating. So here are the soaps ranked by their murder rates:
5. Neighbours
Murders: 10 in 30 years (Click here for the full list)
Average murders per year: 0.33
Even sunny Erinsborough can have the odd murder here and there, but not that many in comparison to other soap towns.
We've taken the big five soaps and crunched the numbers to discover the deadliest (and safest) places to live. How? By dividing the total murders by the show's number of years on air. We've been strict with the rules, so accidental killings don't count unless there was malicious intent. We also don't allow murders that occur miles away from the main location (unless it was somehow started there, like the Neighbours plane bomb).
Yep, we know it's morbid, but it's grimly fascinating. So here are the soaps ranked by their murder rates:
5. Neighbours
Murders: 10 in 30 years (Click here for the full list)
Average murders per year: 0.33
Even sunny Erinsborough can have the odd murder here and there, but not that many in comparison to other soap towns.
- 9/3/2015
- Digital Spy
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