He makes his big return to EastEnders as Robbie Jackson tonight after bowing out for the third time five years ago.
And while Dean Gaffney admits he’d love to go back permanently, it seems he doesn’t rate his work on the soap very much.
The actor looked mortified when he was shown some of his EE highlights during an interview on This Morning and described his performance as ‘very wooden’.
‘I don’t know how I’ve gotten away with it for 22 years’, he told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.