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.