Robson Green left 'devastated' by brutal one-word label at new job

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Robson Green admits he was left “devastated” after television bosses had a brutal one-word description of him when he started a recent project.The actor has now spent three decades on TV screens after securing a role as hospital porter Jimmy Powell in Casualty in 1989.

Since then he has starred in hits such as ITV’s Wire in Blood, Soldier Soldier and Grantchester, as well as filming fishing documentaries.Robson turned 60 last month but doesn’t celebrate the occasion, instead wanting to make “every day special”.

When he was younger, Robson admits he used to look at people in their sixties and wonder “how are you still alive”.Speaking to Woman’s Weekly, Robson said: “Funnily enough, I had a medical recently for a job I did and the guy referred to me as elderly.

I was devastated.“That’s what people do when you’re 60. I don’t want their awe, their pity or the label of being older.”Robson didn’t even crack open the champagne to mark his milestone birthday.