'GET OUT!'
Joe Swash is kicked out of a hotel and ordered to ‘pack his bags’ on reality show before he was famous
JOE Swash was dramatically thrown out of a hotel after trashing his room while filming a reality show before finding fame on EastEnders.
The telly star and actor, 40, was given his marching orders following a wild night of 'feral' behaviour during an appearance on Club Reps in 2000.
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Joe appeared on the ITV show as a 'holidaymaker' three years before landing the role of Mickey Miller in EastEnders.
But he and his pals were ordered home by resort manager Marie 'Maz' Slater, dubbed at the time as "Miss Nasty".
Then aged just 18, Joe and his friends had messed up their room and set off a fire extinguisher in their hotel.
Footage of Joe being shouted at has now resurfaced, with Maz telling him and his mates: "The contract with Club 18-30 has been void.
"I want you to go to your rooms and pack your suitcases with immediate effect."
When one chap asks where they are supposed to sleep, she tells the four-strong group: "I don't have to find you anywhere to stay. You're on the streets, as far as I'm concerned."
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Joe, wearing small sunglasses in the footage, then chips in: "Can I ask something please? How comes we're being kicked out now suddenly?"
Maz curtly tells him: "Because I want you out."
Attempting to apologise, Joe tells her: "We're sorry for what happened last night." But she fires back: "No, I want you out."
Maz's temper then flares further when East Londoner Joe calls her "treacle".
"Don't you dare call me treacle for a start!" she yells.
Joe appeared in the first series of Club Reps, which was filmed at Hotel Matina on the Greek island of Faliraki during the summer season of 2000.
But despite his failed stint at reality TV, Joe went on to find fame in EastEnders before winning the 2008 series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!.
The star is now engaged to Loose Women's Stacey Solomon.
Maz, meanwhile, quit Club Reps after just one series and flew home to Manchester.
In 2010, she told that she had believed the show would be like The Cruise with Jane McDonald.
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Maz added: "I was devastated when I saw how I was portrayed.
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"I couldn't leave the house for three months after the show for fear of confrontation."
Maz said she underwent counselling before going on to open her own restaurant and start a family.
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