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Joyner "hyperventilated" after EastEnders fluff

Jo Joyner
Jo Joyner

Jo Joyner has spoken about her EastEnders live on air fluff, saying that she "had a little cry" after the scene cut.

The actress mistakenly called Ian Beale by the name of the actor who plays him in a scene with actress Laurie Brett on February 18, saying: "How's Adam?"

Joyner spoke to Gaby Roslin on BBC London 94.4 about the slip-up, saying people have been very kind to her.

She said: "The week that I've had… the people have been so lovely. I'm just so blessed to have such great Twitter followers, such great friends and family and such a great cast and crew who just couldn't have been more supportive, otherwise there's absolutely no way I would have gone back out the next day.

"There is absolutely no explanation as to how or why that happened. We couldn't have known [the script] better, we go over and over this…

"There's no way you could do live telly like that, let alone for the cast to rehearse, the crew [too].

"We need to have such huge rehearsals and we were well rehearsed. I'd never got it wrong! Obviously, I thought I'd wait until there were nine million people watching."

"It was like an out of body experience, like a car crash really. As I'm saying 'Adam' I can hear myself tailing off, because I came out of my head and went, 'well there's no getting out of that.'"

She also spoke about how EastEnders bosses reacted to the line fluff, saying: "They were just gorgeous, because I then had to go and do another five scenes or something. So I kind of exited that scene and, obviously it's live [and] we have to keep moving.

"We had to run to another studio then, for the wedding. I was outside that studio set just hyperventilating really.

"I had a little cry when they cut." 

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