EastEnders star Brian Conley took the role after a string of money-spinning gigs went down the pan.He can bag up to £25,000 for a corporate engagement, earns around £120,000 from a yearly panto performance and had been due to star in Dolly Parton’s 9-5 Musical in London’s West End.But the pandemic has meant he’s lost out on hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of work.In 2019, he bagged six figures for appearing in Cinderella in Plymouth and would have been in line for another panto pay day last Christmas before the pandemic closed theatres.And he was due to appear in 9-5 last year from March to May as Franklin Hart Jnr alongside Louise Redknapp as Violet Newstead.Brian once said that he’d never join the soap because BBC bosses wouldn’t.
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