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Martin Kemp on warning he was handed ahead of EastEnders role

Martin Kemp previously revealed he was warned not to join EastEnders back in the 1990s

The actor – who is on The Festive Pottery Throwdown on Sunday (December 29) – played Steve Owen on the BBC One soap, making his debut in 1998. At the time Martin and wife Shirlie had two young children, and faced financial difficulty. Martin added: “I knew that I had to do it, not for any other reason but to cure my brain of the leftover effects of the trauma that I’d been through.

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