Ross Kemp may be an expert on gangs and hardpan documentary maker nowadays, but he made his name as a soapstar.
Yup, Ross rose to fame as Grant Mitchell in BBC One’s EastEnders - a role which he is set to reprise later this year.
But it seems as if EastEnders wasn’t actually Ross’s first foray into the world of soaps.
That’s right; the 51-year-old actually first appeared in the DALES, of all places, as Dolly Skilbeck’s son in ITV’s Emmerdale.
We know, we know - we’re stunned, too.
Ross played the role of Graham Lodsworth in the ITV soap.
And before you accuse us of making a mountain out of a molehill, we’d like to point out that Grant - sorry, Ross - wasn’t just in one measly episode.
Oh no.
In fact, he appeared in a whopping 22 episodes between 1986 to 1987.
Which basically makes him an Emmerdale star, in our opinion.
Watch Ross Kemp’s Emmerdale episode below:
Graham (aka Ross) first started hanging around Emmerdale farm in December 1986, ominously stalking Dolly around.
But, as it turned out, he wasn’t out to cause her harm; he was, in fact, an army deserter and tearaway, who just wanted to spend some time with his beloved mum.
Bless. He’s not so different from Grant after all, is he?
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