Huge EastEnders star slams time on soap and claims bosses ‘made promises they never kept'
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Jamie Foreman has spoken out about his time on EastEnders
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He played Derek Branning in the BBC One soap
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One of bad boy Derek's storylines was an affair with married Kat Slater
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Despite being part of one of Walford's most iconic families, Jamie, 67, has confessed his time as Derek is not 'a career highlight'.
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'I don't see EastEnders as anywhere near the highlight of my career.
'It was a lovely job and I respect it. But for me… they'd asked me so many times before.'
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Recalling the offer from EastEnders, Jamie continued: 'They said, 'it's with the best family, it's full on, you can do as long as you want'. I said, 'I only want to do it for a year'.
'I went and met with them and they made me all manner of promises that they never kept, like 'you'll never work a Saturday'. I did every Saturday. I was the first in, last out every day.'
Jamie's character Derek was killed off during the Christmas Day 2012 episode when he suffered a heart attack.
In his short time as a resident of Albert Square Derek cemented himself as one of the soap's most notorious bad boys.
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He had an affair with Alfie Moon's wife Kat Slater, tormented Pat Butcher on her death bed and told Sharon Watts' son Denny the truth about his dad Dennis Rickman.
It's not the first time Jamie has spoken negatively about his time on the show.
Penny Branning calls her dad 'big man Jack' in EastEnders
In 2013 he appeared on Daybreak and said: 'I hated the scenes in the Queen Vic, I'm terribly sorry to everybody!
'I'm sure a lot of the cast will say the same thing - they're so long and laborious.
'You've got to stand there and wait for somebody over there to stop talking, so you're listening to that conversation, then it cuts to somebody else. You never shoot a scene quickly in there.'
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