[video=youtube;pJggdv1kNbg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJggdv1kNbg[/video] This is the only version I can find of that iconic scene.
I imagine that's also what the casting director thought when she gave him the job. To be fair to him, he does actually seem to be acting rather than simply playing himself. He comes across as camp and a lot livelier in real life.
I swear the actor playing Joey is getting worse. He was cringeworthy during the stag scenes. Why hasn't Tyler been axed yet?! There is so much deadwood hanging around I'm surprised they don't shout "timber" rather than "action".
I always get the feeling Joey wants to burst out laughing; he barely supresses a smirk, especially when called upon to "act". Dreadful. Almost as bad as that Kane bloke. Although it's nice to see Liam's recovered enough to play for Barcelona tonight.
They need another "Baby swap". By that I don't meant another literal swap but just something exciting and unexpected to give the programme a kick up the arse.
I don't think the show ever recovered from "baby swap" and all the negative press it generated. It was arguably the last "big" storyline and ever since then they have played it safe with endless affairs and pregnancies. In the past the hen and stag night would have been part of an episode, now it is the main focus of two whole episodes. EastEnders is committing the ultimate soap sin of just being boring.
The last good storyline was Heather's murder, which was around the beginning of 2012. The show took a nose dive when the 'Who Shagged Kat?' storyline began and it has never recovered.
You've got a point there - the "who shagged Kat?" storyline is one of the worst in its history, up there with Shirley Benson's cat and the Ferreira's kidney saga.
Shirley's cat was an epic storyline which involved a woman being harrassed by her upstairs neighbour who eventually killed her cat and hid it in a bin. So far, so shit but the weird thing was that Shirley never interacted with the main cast, her whole story was her and this neighbour in a strange kind of bubble separate from the rest of the programme. I remember an interview with her and she said she met Adam Woodyatt (Ian) on set and he introduced himself asking who she was, to which she replied she had been in EastEnders for 6 months!
What a fucking wedding... Getting married in the RnR???? They seriously cannot be arsed producing a decent show now can they?
