Max Bowden is leaving the function of Ben Mitchell. (BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)
EastEnders actor Max Bowden has shared an announcement as followers await the departure of his character, homosexual powerful man Ben Mitchell.
The actor’s exit from the British cleaning soap was confirmed by a BBC spokesperson on the finish of final 12 months, and up to date scenes have constructed as much as Ben’s inevitable onscreen downfall.
Viewers of the cleaning soap watched episodes this week as Ben was arrested whereas at a celebration for his husband, Callum. The automotive mechanic is at present dealing with extradition to America to face costs of credit-card fraud.
He had travelled to the nation final 12 months in a last-minute bid to safe medication that he hoped would prolong the lifetime of brain-tumour-stricken Lola Pearce, the mom of his daughter.
Regardless of begging his father Phil and dodgy lawyer Ritchie to assist get him out the slammer, it seems Ben, who’s been locked up earlier than, can be going away for a very long time, with scenes set to air tonight (28 March) doubtlessly being his final.
In a put up on Instagram, Bowden shared an announcement about his time on the long-running BBC cleaning soap.
“It’s been one hell of a trip. Thanks for taking Ben to your hearts and permitting my model into your lives,” he wrote.
“I had an incredible 5 years at @bbceastenders and learnt a hell of rather a lot about myself and the craft I really like so dearly. It obtained me by means of some very exhausting private occasions and I can be for ever grateful.
“I actually won’t ever be capable to thank everyone for the help sufficient, as a result of the followers of the present are so passionate, caring and invested, and it allows us, as actors, to need to preserve going and at all times be higher.
“So, I actually do from the underside of my coronary heart admire each single one who has despatched any form of positivity my means over the [past] 5 years. I really like you all.”
He added that “Ben Mitchell 6.0” was “over and out” – he’s the sixth actor to tackle the function of Albert Sq.’s very unlikely dangerous boy, having joined the forged in 2019.
In response, Rob Kazinsky, Walford’s Sean Slater, mentioned: “Effectively completed, mate, you probably did a hell of a job.” And Ricky Champ, who performed Ben’s on-screen brother-in-law Stuart, mentioned: “Nice job bro! Effectively completed. You smashed it xxx. See you on the skin.”
Ben has turn out to be an web meme for the LGBTQ+ group through the years, with one clip of him as a baby, dancing to “LoveGame” by Woman Gaga, frequently doing the rounds on-line.
Different storylines for the character have included popping out to his exhausting man dad, the homophobic homicide of his boyfriend Paul Coker, being the sufferer of male rape, and the killing of Heather Trott.
EastEnders airs on BBC One Monday-Thursday at 7.30pm and on BBC iPlayer.