EastEnders star reveals surprising off screen life with very normal job

FORMER EastEnders prima Harry Reid has started a caller assemblage distant from the satellite of TV.

The actor, 31, played Ben Mitchell connected the BBC soap for 4 years.

However, his existent vocation couldn't beryllium much acold removed from the glitz and glamour of beingness connected screen.

Harry has posted connected Instagram advertizing his caller decorating and scaffolding company.

He told followers: "Now providing scaffolding. Business continuing to grow."

Harry archetypal appeared successful Walford arsenic Ben successful 2014, and was past axed from the soap successful 2018 arsenic Max Bowden took connected the role.

He antecedently shared his disappointment astatine being chopped from EastEnders successful an interrogation with Digital Spy.

When asked if helium would person wanted to support connected playing Ben, helium replied: "Yes I would have. I ever said I would person gone back. I’m disappointed due to the fact that I emotion playing the quality – it was a existent pleasance arsenic an histrion to play a quality similar that.

"It’s a shame I won’t get to proceed his travel but it’s the sanction of the game, it is what it is."

However, helium saw the agleam broadside of the transition, adding: "I’m successful precisely the aforesaid presumption arsenic I was successful erstwhile I primitively left.

"I’m an actor, I travel into this crippled to play antithetic parts – not to play 1 for my full life. It conscionable means that the doorway is decently closed – but determination are different doors.

"With different idiosyncratic playing the character, dilatory but surely erstwhile you deliberation of Ben Mitchell, you volition deliberation of his look alternatively of excavation but successful presumption of my profession, what it does is it closes my section astatine EastEnders meaning that I americium retired of that satellite now.

"If I were to spell into a akin show, those doors past go unfastened again. There are ever metallic linings."

After leaving EastEnders, Harry went connected to play Leonard Vole successful the signifier accumulation of Witness for the Prosecution.

He besides made a cameo successful an occurrence of Doctors arsenic constabulary serviceman Leo Sampson.