'I'M HAVING FUN'
EastEnders’ Mel Owen was only supposed to return for a year before dramatic murder plotline, reveals Tamzin Outhwaite
The actress admitted that she had extended her stay on the soap due to exciting storylines
TAMZIN Outhwaite revealed that she was only meant to be returning to EastEnders for a year, but had been enticed to stay by her current dramatic storyline.
The 48-year-old revealed during an appearance on Saturday Kitchen that she had agreed to stay playing her character, Mel Owen, on the soap for longer than it was originally planned.
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The actress, who rejoined the soap last January, has had a number of explosive storylines since her character moved back to Walford.
She revealed: "The storylines that they told me about seemed like I was going to have fun with them, which I have been, and am.
"They tell you about the projected [storylines], what's going to happen in the future, possibly for the next year.
She added: "So, I was going to be there for a year, and now I've extended it to be there a bit longer, because I'm having such a good time."
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She later explained that she found her job on EastEnders easy to fit around life as a mum, although with the storyline she has at the moment she finds herself very busy.
She said: "You just have to dive into a storyline with complete complete commitment and know that it will end and you get some life back.
"But, while you're doing it you get so immersed that I suppose at the moment I am learning lines very quickly, I am reading scripts like they are page turners because you want to see what's happening next.
"I am fully immersed in it, but there will come a time when I will have a bit of time to go to the gym and do a yoga class."
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Tamzin's character Mel is due to marry undercover cop Ray Kelly — already wed to two other women — on New Year’s Day.
Although, according to the actress, her character's revenge on her bigamist husband-to-be Ray is so 'dark', that she's banned her kids from watching it.
The star, who is mum to daughters Florence, ten, and Marnie, six, from ex-husband Tom Ellis, 40, says the girls won’t be watching the scenes as she says the plot is too scary for them.
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She admitted: “Well they don’t watch it because they’re young.
“I’m not sure I’d want my children to watch it, if you know what I mean, it’s like a horror, or it’s like the darker side of EastEnders.
“It can be scary. I haven’t seen it but I know when we were doing it I was scared.”
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