Michelle Collins has admitted that she recently auditioned for a role on Desperate Housewives.

The actress is best known as Eastenders Cindy Beale and today told BBC One’s Breakfast:

“I’ve got an American visa now so I’ve spent quite a bit of time there,” she admitted. “I went to a casting for Desperate Housewives, but I haven’t got it yet.

“As I’ve told people about it, they’re amazed and have been telling me that someone like Cindy from EastEnders would be great for that show. I have to remind them I’m not Cindy, I’m Michelle.”

The 46-year-old also has also tried out for other shows including Bones and CSI.

“I’m just doing what a lot of British actors are doing there at the moment – the ‘LA thing’. I’d like to think there’s been interest in me. But I’m a single parent so obviously that would be my biggest consideration before going for anything in America.”