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The actor - set to exit his role as Charlie Slater this week - defended the BBC soap's controversial baby-swap plot and revealed that there are viewers who "believe" that events in Albert Square have really happened.
"Don't forget, EastEnders is a drama," he told ITV's Daybreak. "I know a lot of people out there think of it as real life. I mean people come up to me and say, 'Charlie, why is that Kat having a go at you?'.
"They really believe it. I mean, they send wreaths in for funerals and children's clothes in for births."
He added: "But the cot death is a thing that happens, and the swap - can I say cinematic license? You see it in movies: they go over the top, it's the way they go. I mean, there's lots of people would say, 'okay, fine - accept it as a drama'."
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