INTERVIEW
Melvyn also appeared in ‘Eastenders’,
explaining: “My agent called me and
told me he had secured me a romantic
lead in a TV soap opera. I told him it was
wonderful, and who was the lady? He
replied that it was Dot Cotton!
“It was weird because I was with all
those people who had been there so long
and it was like standing on the platform
at a railway station with the train going
by and you knew you had to jump on it.
I did about a dozen episodes but June
Brown, who plays Dot Cotton, said it was
a bit unfair because I was not given any
decent material.”
thought someone had given the game
away. But to be honest I hadn't got a clue
he was on the side of the stage waiting to
surprise me.”
Melvyn’s one dubious claim to fame
is that h