Jamie Foreman has told how he found EastEnders gruelling work, with shifts of up to 18 hours a day and weekends.
The 64-year-old played Derek Branning from 2011 to the following Christmas, when he was killed off with a heart attack.
Asked for his most memorable moment on the BBC soap, Jamie said: “I was too tired to pay attention to an anecdote. I’d need to get in at seven in the morning and finish at eight at night.
