Former EastEnders star Ross Kemp reckons that the cast on the BBC soap is overworked.
Just a few weeks ago, former EastEnders producer John Yorke stepped in as showrunner when former head writer Sean O'Connor abruptly left the soap to work on film projects.
During O'Connor's year in charge he worked with Kemp when his character Grant Mitchell was brought back to Walford for a very limited run in the summer and early autumn of 2016.
Kemp has now told UK tabloid The Sun that he wasn't overly impressed while working with O'Connor and complained that he witnessed the cast being overworked.
"[O'Connor] reminded me of a sort of schoolteacher of a kind of third-rate public school," Kemp said. "That's not really what you want for the cast of EastEnders."
As for his claim that the cast were overworked, he said: "You write it well, you cast it well and you do the right things . . . The cast are earning more than the executive producers, which makes it a very odd power balance, doesn't it?"
But despite his relatively negative experience last time around, Kemp isn't ruling out returning to Albert Square once again at some point in the future.
"It's great they haven't killed Grant off," he said. "I'm very happy the Mitchell brothers are still alive and hopefully they will ride again at some point."
EastEnders continues on Thursday night on RTÉ One and BBC One.
