In a podcast recorded before his passing, Paul Danan admitted to asking Hollyoaks to let him back as a cast member. He spent years “knocking on the door.”
Danan, who died last month at the age of 46, said his time on Hollyoaks was the “hardest, most amazing, rewarding job ever” but said he was initially upset the show “never asked me back”, while speaking on the Outlet Ten Discussions mental health podcast.
The late actor added: “I was upset at first, but actually I got it, because I know that they knew I wasn’t always that great, and maybe they were worried”.
“I don’t f****** know the reason, they kept saying, ‘ oh, there’s no storyline’, in the end I stopped asking, knocking on the door, and it’s like listen, that’s done”.
During his life, the star had been open about his struggles with addiction, entering rehab and trying to recover.
According to court records, Danan died the day before his scheduled appearance for a plea hearing at Warrington Magistrates’ Court. He had been accused of possessing several bags of cocaine and a “quantity” of cannabis. He was also accused of driving whilst under the influence of drugs on October 2 last year, in Warrington, Cheshire.
On Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, Danan played bad boy Sol Patrick from 1997 to 2001 and was later known for his reality TV appearances, including on Celebrity Coach Trip, Celebrity Big Brother and Celebrity Love Island.
He told the podcast he had “quit reality TV” having felt “exploited” in the past, but went on to say that if he was offered £10, 000 he probably would still do a show.
Danan explained: “Some of it’s alright, but when it’s voting, or when they’re telling you who to talk to, who to argue with, who to love, no way”.
“But back then (in the early days of reality TV), it was the real reality, it’s unreality now. They left you to do whatever and they edited 24 hours into one hour, and they got the best, because it was natural, it was organic”.
Elsewhere in the interview, Paul also claimed that rabbis would “bow down” to him due to his relation to a Jewish prophet and Morocco’s chief rabbi.
He explained that only members of his family were permitted to marry at Fes’ Aben Danan Synagogue, which he had wished to marry there.
He said: “My great, great, great, great grandfather, we have a museum, he was the chief rabbi of Morocco. He was unbelievable, and we’re related to this prophet, and his name is the Rambam”.
“He was a lawyer, a psychiatrist, something like a doctor, and all these other things. Although we’re talking about hundreds of years ago, he was also a little bit cheeky, he did whatever he did to get things, and that is what makes him so incredible.
“So when I see a rabbi and they know I’m related, they literally bow down to me, and I’m like ‘ what are you doing? ‘”
Danan continued by stating that he had been given a special invitation to a rabbi’s home in Golders Green, London, to host a dinner in his honor.
He continued: “I went to the Danan synagogue, and I asked them there, I said, ‘ if I found someone, could I get married here? ‘, because it’s not a place for people to get married”.
“And he went, ‘ because you’re Danan you can’, and I thought to myself ‘ one day, if I do meet (a girl), I’m going to bring her here, we’re going to get married at this synagogue'”.
“Because, oh my god, it’s like a museum, it’s incredible, and it’s all my favourite colour, like a turquoise blue”.
The full interview can be listened to on Spotify’s Outlet Ten Discussions podcast.
Source: Mirror
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