Martin Kemp reveals EastEnders role helped him recover after brain tumour
Martin Kemp has said that landing his role in EastEnders was “the thing that helped me recover, more than anything else” after he received his brain tumour diagnosis.
“Everybody had grown up with EastEnders, so I was kind of the first one of those name actors to go in," he went on. “When EastEnders was offered to me it was a chance for me to get over it, so it wasn’t just me taking EastEnders on because I thought yeah, it was a good gig – it was me trying to get my life back together.
Kemp was diagnosed with two brain tumours in 1995 and underwent an operation and radiotherapy to treat the disease before landing his role as one of Albert Square’s most memorable villains.
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