Call the Midwife star shares regret over prison stint after getting away with bank robbery for A YEAR

ONE of the stars of Call the Midwife has shared his regret implicit his situation stint.

Cliff Parisi, 64, is beloved by fans of the deed BBC amusement for his relation asFred Buckle.

The histrion archetypal roseate to prominence erstwhile helium made his debut successful EastEnders arsenic Minty Peterson backmost successful March 2022.

He near the BBC soap successful 2010 and joined the play play 2 years later.

In Call The Midwife, Cliff plays shopkeeper Fred, who is besides the main caretaker of Nonnatus House.

In a caller interview, the histrion has opened up astir however antithetic his beingness was arsenic a teen, and however helium landed connected the incorrect broadside of the law.

Speaking to Saga Magazine, Cliff revealed that helium grew up successful a "fairly rough" area.

He explained that helium was inactive incapable to work oregon constitute aft helium near schoolhouse and helium did not person promising "prospects".

When asked astir his biggest regret successful life, the histrion revealed: "Trying my luck arsenic a rubbish slope robber and ending up successful prison aged 19.

"Where I grew up was reasonably rough. I near schoolhouse astatine 14 incapable to work oregon constitute and if you didn't person immoderate prospects, which I didn't, you could easy get successful trouble. And I did."

Cliff continued: "When the robbery went wrong, I escaped from the slope connected a bus. I got distant with it for a year.

"Finally, 1 of the different guys got arrested and the next happening I knew, the police were knocking connected the beforehand door."

He added: "I was conscionable astir to spell connected signifier for a large accumulation of South Pacific, but got carted disconnected to Brixton Prison.

"I got bail and was capable to bash the amusement earlier I was sentenced."

After his 18-month condemnation for the slope robbery, Cliff admitted that helium utilized the clip to effort and amended his speechmaking skills successful prison.

He antecedently opened up astir his pugnacious childhood, revealing that his family's erstwhile landlady erstwhile tried to bargain him and his sibling from his teenage parents, George and Irene Manley.

When his parent refused, the landlady threw them retired of the location and onto the street.

The household were past forced to sleep unsmooth successful Hackney's Victoria Park, earlier societal services were informed and took the children into care.

The histrion confirmed: "Mum and Dad jumped connected a autobus with america but it was chased by a constabulary car and stopped.

"Me and my sister were ripped from their arms and they were some near sobbing by the broadside of the road."

Cliff antecedently shed airy connected the transgression incidental earlier entering the I'm A Celebrity jungle successful 2019.

He told the Sunday Mirror: "This has hung implicit maine similar a achromatic cloud. It was a monolithic mistake that I made and I profoundly regret it."