The Press Association report today that former EastEnders actor Neil McDermott – who played the role of Ryan Malloy until he left earlier this year – is to star in Shrek: The Musical next year.

Neil will play the role of Lord Farquaad, which is currently played by another ex-EastEnder, Nigel Harmon, who of course played the role of Dennis Rickman on the show.

The musical – which stars BGT judge Amanda Holden and Girls Aloud singer Kimberly Walsh – won’t be the first that Neil’s starred in, with his previous theatre credits including a role in the West End musical version of The Sound of Music.

And as well as his role in EastEnders, Neil has also starred in an episode of Doctor Who entitled, The Next Doctor, as well making appearances in Casualty and Rosemary and Thyme.

As mentioned above, Neil left EastEnders earlier this year, citing the reason for his departure as wanting to spend more time with his wife and young daughter, Arabella Betsy, who will be one year old next January. Read more & comment »

It was revealed last week that Neil McDermott was quitting Eastenders and at the time, insiders claimed that BBC bosses were planning to kill off his character Ryan Malloy.

However, in today’s News Of The World, these reports have been denied and it has instead been claimed that while he will not die, Ryan will be responsible for the murder of another character.

After discovering that his younger sister was forced into prostitution by badboy Rob Grayson, Ryan will get his chance to get even with the manipulative criminal on Southend’s pier and will kill the thug.

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Various newspapers today are reporting that Neil McDermott’s EastEnders character, Ryan Malloy, will exit the show after a violent showdown with pimp Rob Grayson, who’s played by Shameless actor, Jodi Latham.

Ryan reportedly beats Rob to a pulp for having put his sister Whitney (Shona McGarty) through hell after forcing her into prostitution… Read more & comment »

He has barely been back on our screens a nano-second, but it seems that it will not take Ryan long to move on to his next Walford conquest, and you wont believe who it is…

Ryan (Neil McDermott) is no amateur when it comes to shocking people with his choice of women, what with marrying evil Janine (Charlie Brooks) and then having an affair with the mother of his child, bi-polar widow Stacy Branning (Lacey Turner), but he has out done his self this time, as his new love interest is no other than Lauren Branning! (Jacqueline Jossa). Read more & comment »

Chloe Peebles has admitted that she would never have had sex with Neil McDermott if she had known he was a new dad.

The sixteen year old girl slept with the Eastenders star when he made a personal appearance at Glam nightclub in Stockton last month. After catching the actor’s eye, he invited her back to his hotel room and the pair slept together a number of times.

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Eastenders actor Larry Lamb has attempted to explain how ‘silly boy’ Neil McDermott got himself into his recent mess.

The star – who plays Ryan Malloy on the BBC soap opera – was exposed in tabloid newspapers last weekend as being a love rat, who cheated on his wife just weeks after she gave birth to their first baby. Neil has been attending a promotional event in a night club, when he picked up a 16 year old fan and bedded her in his hotel room.

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Neil McDermott was pictured leaving his marital home last night, after his wife found out that he had recently slept with a teenage fan.

It had been revealed at the weekend that the Eastenders actor, best known as Walford hunk Ryan Malloy, had bedded a sixteen year old girl while at a promotional gig. She claims that he chatted her up in a nightclub, before inviting her back to his hotel room where they had sex numerous times.

After the story broke, Neil made a statement saying:

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EastEnders actor Neil McDermott, who of course plays Ryan Malloy, has told Holy Soap that he believes fans’ reaction to the cot death and baby swap storyline was “blown out of proportion.”

However, Neil had previously stated that he and his wife Michelle wouldn’t watch the New Year’s Eve storyline as it would be too upsetting in light of the fact that their own baby was due to be born.

The couple welcomed baby Arabella Betsy early in January, but on the subject of the storyline, Neil said, “We didn’t watch it because Michelle was a few days overdue when that was going on.

“At the end of the day, if something is going to upset you don’t watch it.”

He added, “Janine tried to poison her husband at Christmas and stabbed herself and no-one blinked an eyelid… Read more & comment »

EastEnders actress Lacey Turner will be leaving the soap this week and some of her co-stars have been praising the actress in the run up to her departure.

Turner, best known as troubled Walford resident Stacey Branning, will have her last scenes aired on Christmas day.

Charlie Brooks, who plays Janine Malloy, told PA: “I am sad, but excited for her. There are so many great opportunities that are going to come her way. I think it’s the right time for her to go.”

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