Dani Dyer has revealed she wept during a car-crash audition for the lead role in BBC hit Our Girl. The Love Island winner, 24, said her nerves got the better of her and she was devastated when Corrie actress Michelle Keegan, 32, landed the part of soldier Georgie Lane in 2015.
The show would have been her big break and she did indie films before finding fame on the ITV2 dating show in 2018. Dani said: “I cried in the room.
I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’. "I was running an hour late and sweating. The nerves get on top of you. “It is just this authority looking at you and you want this role so bad.” Dani, whose dad Danny, 42, plays Mick Carter in EastEnders, added that a casting boss got her flustered.
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