'EastEnders' star John Partridge has said that he almost quit acting before landing a job on the soap.
Speaking on 'This Morning', the 38-year-old actor, who is now acting as a judge on 'Over The Rainbow', said: "I was coming up to 36 and had been through a spate of about ten auditions where they were just like, 'Nope - next'."
"You're waiting for the phone to ring with not even a job offer - with the prospect of maybe getting an audition."
"At 36, having my whole self worth wrapped up in waiting for the phone to ring was becoming really, really difficult. That's the thing about this game - it's constant rejection."
"I did nearly pack it in. I had six months where I said to the agent, 'Don't call'. [He thought] I was just having a moment but I really didn't want to do it."
"With the call from 'EastEnders', I was like, 'I'm not going in, I'm never going to get it'."
"I trod off to the first audition and I read appallingly, really appallingly. But they saw something in me and called me back."
