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The actor, who plays Sam Dingle in the ITV1 soap, revealed that people often don't realise who he is because he is so different from his on-screen character.
Speaking at the launch of spinoff DVD The Dingles: For Richer, For Poorer, he told Holy Soap: "I like to hide behind the character. I like roles that are a bit further away from how I might be perceived in real life. It's nice to immerse yourself in a different character.
"I tend not to get recognised a lot. I don't get it anything like Jane [Cox, who plays Lisa] and Steve [Halliwell, who plays Zak].
"Steve can't tie his shoelaces in the street without people noticing. It's the beard. But I tend to get away with it."
