Neighbours' Alan pitches for a part in EastEnders!

Neighbours' Alan pitches for a part in EastEnders!
Neighbours' Alan pitches for a part in EastEnders!

Neighbours star Alan Fletcher has revealed he'd like a part in EastEnders - if the show's bosses would let him attempt a cockney accent. The actor, who plays Dr Karl Kennedy, told how he would be keen to work in the UK if his role in the Aussie soap ever comes to an end. He said: "If and when Neighbours finishes for me you'll probably see me here on these fair shores because I have the ability to work here and feel an enormous connection with English TV and theatre world." He said he'd happily follow in the footsteps of fellow Neighbours legend Anne Charleston (Madge Bishop) by appearing in an English soap. "There are some terrific shows here. Anne Charleston did Emmerdale for a while and she loved that experience." Asked which soap he would choose, he said: "Probably EastEnders. I'd like to be in EastEnders if I could play a cockney. I'd have to try and pull off a genuine East London accent." Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.