Ross Kemp explains how he ‘topped up’ EastEnders wage by creeping into shots
Ross Kemp explains how he 'topped up' EastEnders wage by creeping into shots. Source: Good Morning Britain, ITV
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00:00 You decided to top up your earnings, didn't you?
00:02 Why bring that up?
00:04 Because it's in the book.
00:06 By creeping into other people's shots.
00:09 Not their shots, necessarily.
00:10 So if you were doing three days in the Vic,
00:13 which you normally would do, I would normally be standing back.
00:16 And I'd work out that I was not in the middle episode
00:19 that they were shooting that day.
00:20 And obviously, cameras, like the one that's pointed at me now,
00:22 has a red light on top of it when it's recording.
00:25 So I got on very well with the camera guys, and they'd go,
00:28 "Is this episode 235, not 234 or 233?"
00:31 And he goes, "Yes, I'm not in that one. I am now."
00:34 Big Ron, Pint and, what, Pork Scratches, was it?
00:38 OK, mate, I'll be back in a second.
00:40 Episode fee. They soon cottoned on to me, I have to say.
00:43 So there's a little bit of improv in there as well.