Former EastEnders star Nigel Harman will join Strictly Come Dancing
Nigel Harman detailed how he had to take “time off” from acting following his EastEnders stint, which left him “knackered”.
In an unearthed Jonathan Ross Show interview from shortly after Nigel left the BBC soap in 2006, Jonathan addressed his break from acting.
“So, you mentioned you took some time off,” Jonathan commented, before asking: “Why did you take time off? What happened there?”
He went on: “So you left EastEnders in January…”
“Yeah, basically I just had some time off because I was knackered,” the soon-to-be Strictly Come Dancing star explained.
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He continued: “You know I mean, bless them, since I’ve been in the show they’ve been writing for me and I’ve had some incredible stuff to do.
“And I just got to the point where I was… yeah, knackered.
“And you know, I felt like it was starting to show and some of the stuff I was doing wasn’t as good as it should have been.”
“It’s a really tough show to do, I know from all the people I’ve interviewed on it,” Jonathan added.
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“Especially if your storyline is a big storyline, it’s like five or six days of the week solid?”
As Nigel confirmed, the presenter remarked: “So, long old days.”
“Long days yeah, but you know, don’t feel sorry for me, it’s a great job, you know,” Nigel clarified.
Nigel won viewers’ hearts when he starred as troubled Dennis Rickman in EastEnders between 2003 and 2005.
The soon-to-be Strictly Come Dancing star has since taken on other roles in soaps and currently plays Max Cristie in Casualty.
Nigel has been signed up to this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, which he has admitted to feeling “terrified” about.
He joins Amanda Abbington, Angela Rippon, Layton Williams, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Eddie Kadi, Angela Scanlon, Zara McDermott, Adam Thomas, Nikita Kanda, Ellie Leach, Jody Cundy and Bobby Brazier in the 2023 line-up.
Strictly Come Dancing is set to launch on BBC One on September 16.
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