Former EastEnders star Derek Martin has slammed the “sensationalist” events portrayed in soaps now, after he accused them of being "too miserable" nowadays.
In an appearance on Good Morning Britain, the 88-year-old who played cabbie Charlie Slater in EastEnders from 2000 to 2016, said soaps back in the day “caused a lot of laughs and a lot of humour”.
From his kitchen in Hertfordshire, he told presenters Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway: “With all these problems we’ve got now with Covid, people need a bit of humour to break it up. To take the edge off it.
