EastEnders star Danny Dyer took part in a new series called The Assembly, where he answered questions from autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people
EastEnders icon Danny Dyer was questioned about sending his children to private school as he was forced to defend his working-class roots. The Football Factory star has daughter Sunnie, Love Island daughter Dani and son Arty, who he recently sent to private school.
The 47-year-old Rivals actor recently answered difficult questions from autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people for a new ITV series where no questions are off-limits. The show, called The Assembly, had one audience member ask: “How working class was it to send your son to a private school?” Danny, who waited for the jeering to die down, said it was a ‘good question’ before answering the person.
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He said: “I’m very proud of my roots, but do I want to be living in an environment where, especially at the moment where there’s helicopters going over my house all the time and sirens all the time, a lot of crime?
“Of course you don’t. So what you want to do is, you want to earn some money and then move to a better area where you can bring your children up.
“When you have kids, you want to give them everything you can. Sometimes it backfires on you slightly because now they’re not street-wise.
“I walked everywhere as a kid or I had to get a bus. I don’t think they’ve ever been on a f***ing bus, my kids. They don’t have to, do they? Because they get driven door to door by a Bentley.”
Other celebrities to be interviewed in the show include Doctor Who’s David Tennant, BBC presenter Gary Lineker and singer Jade Thirlwall.
Danny also admitted during the chat the real reason he quit EastEnders in 2022 – revealing he didn’t want to see his character Mick Carter bumped off by scheming Janine Butcher.
The actor said he made the “emotional” decision to leave the BBC soap in disappointment over Mick’s storylines, which had seen him split up from long-term love Linda, played by Kellie Bright.
Danny said his decision to leave EastEnders was “emotional”, because the soap had saved him when his career was teetering on a knife edge back in 2013.
“I got to a point where I’d made a lot of mistakes in my life and nobody would hire me any more and then EastEnders came along and said ‘we love you – we want to put you in the Queen Vic’. That saved my life because I had bailiffs at my door,” he recalls, “The first four years were incredible.”
But the situation changed after producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins – now the man behind Disney+ hit Rivals – left the show when he was paired up with Janine, played by Charlie Brooks.
“A new producer came in and he didn’t like the Carters,” Danny says. “He started to sack people – my son, my daughter – they’ve still got Kellie Bright in it, who plays my wife, Linda Carter. But then they split me up from Kellie and put me with Janine. When they told me I said: ‘Janine? But she murders people!’
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