DANNY Dyer has revealed he left EastEnders because of the soap’s dwindling viewing figures and because the show's writer's "lost their way" with his character, Mick Carter.
The 45-year-old actor departed his role as the Queen Vic landlord in dramatic scenes which showed him diving into the Chanel to save his beloved ex-wife Linda, played by Kellie Bright, with him not re-emerging from the water.
When Danny joined the BBC One show in 2013, EastEnders was regularly getting up to eight million viewers a night, but in the past year those figures have dwindled to 2.5 million an episode.
Danny got sick of being told by people that they didn’t bother tuning in. He said: “All I got for the past couple of years was, ‘You still in that EastEnders?
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