Danny Dyer has revealed he earned a huge six-figure sum for just one show after moving on from his bad boy image in a career u-turn.
The actor, 47, is best known to most for the tough guy roles he’s played and his ‘hard man persona’ in movies like Football Factory and The Business.
In 2023, he quit his role as Mick Carter on the BBC soap EastEnders after nine years to try other things.
Viewers were forced to say goodbye to Danny’s character on Christmas Day when he was lost at sea during a tense festive special.
Since then, he’s leaned into his softer side and taken on a variety of different roles – including Jilly Cooper’s Rivals and an emotional appearance on ITV’s new show The Assembly.
And according to The Sun, he bagged a whopping £100,000 for just one presenting role on a game show.
Danny Dyer has revealed he earned a huge six-figure sum for just one show after moving on from his bad boy image in a career u-turn
The actor, 47, is best known to most for the tough guy roles he’s played and his ‘hard man persona’ in movies like Football Factory and The Business (pictured presenting The Wall)
He reportedly told the publication: ‘How much did I get for presenting The Wall? I think I probably got maybe £100,000. But, you have to work for it you know. But yeah, that’s what I got.’
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It comes after Danny admitted his wife Joanna Mas ‘deserved better’ as he opened up about their split and his drug-fuelled three-day benders in the ‘most open and honest’ interview of his life.
The actor gets a grilling in ITV’s new show The Assembly, which sees a celebrity face questions from a group of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people, forcing them to cast aside their media training, with no topic off limits.
Each episode of the series sees a follows a different celebrity, with Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker, 64, Doctor Who star David Tennant, 54, and ex-Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall, 32, also in the hot seat.
In a clip from his episode, one woman asked Danny about his split from Joanne.
She said: ‘When Jo kicked you out she emptied your shared joint bank account, do you still have a shared bank account now?’
A stunned Danny joked that he was about to give her a hug until she hit him with the stinging question.
He then openly admitted to being kicked out, as he confessed: ‘I was a p***k and she deserved better.
In 2023, he quit his role as Mick Carter on the BBC soap EastEnders after nine years to try other things
He reportedly told the publication: ‘How much did I get for presenting The Wall? I think I probably got maybe £100,000’
The actor gets a grilling in ITV’s new show The Assembly, which sees a celebrity face questions from a group of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people
In a clip from his episode, one woman asked Danny about his split from Joanne (pictured together in 2023)
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‘Sometimes I’d go out, get off my head, take drugs; I wouldn’t come home for three days.
‘She had every right to throw me out. She controls everything now.’
Danny and Joanne got together in 1992, and have three children – Love Island’s Dani, 27, daughter Sunnie, 17, and son Arty, six.
Their on-off relationship was marred with cheating allegations in the past, although they eventually got back together for good and married in 2016 after Joanne proposed a year before.
Back in 2000, Danny’s wild behaviour culminated in Jo catching him cheating on her, causing her to kick him out and clear their bank account.
In an interview with The Times in 2023, Danny recalled the moment he got caught cheating on Jo, and insisted he ‘doesn’t blame her’ for changing her phone number, clearing their account, and stopping him from seeing his eldest daughter Dani.
He confessed: ‘I didn’t blame her. It was a mad period. I do now realise what’s important to me are my family. They are everything.