The EastEnders actor who performed Gianni Di Marco made a return to tv screens 22 years after departing Albert Sq..
The 'Italian stallion' made an look on Channel 4 programme Steph's Packed Lunch while cooking within the particular 'Cleaning soap Star Snacks' phase.
Marc, who starred on the BBC cleaning soap from 1998 to 2000, chatted about his EastEnders audition with host Steph McGovern.
He whipped up a smoked salmon tagliatelle and shared how he landed the half six months after drama faculty and even admitted telling a giant "fib" to win the function, the Mirror reported.
The Irish-born actor revealed: "I informed them I used to be half-Italian, I am not - I am Irish, shoutout to my household in Eire."
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The actor, who's a father to 2 children, daughter Grace, aged three, and Leo, 18 months, mentioned: "I do not know what I used to be doing earlier than I used to be a dad."
Marc had a pinnacle function within the feud between the Di Marcos and the Mitchells, however after leaving the present in 2000, the star revealed he was affected by melancholy.
He defined that he had turn out to be depressed after the axe fell on the Di Marcos in EastEnders, telling the Mirror: "I suffered melancholy and turned to the bottle to get me out of it."
The actor dated Unfastened Girls's Nadia Sawalha whereas she was showing on EastEnders and so they had been additionally onscreen lovers.
He additionally dated Gentleman Jack star Suranne Jones earlier than dealing with controversy on I am A Superstar... Get Me Out of Right here.
Marc went into the I’m A Celeb! jungle in 2007, the place he met Welsh pop star Cerys Matthews, 49, and the 2 had been seen holding arms and sharing a hammock, even though he had girlfriend Footballers' Wives star Sarah Matravers.
Of the romance, he mentioned: "I simply developed emotions for somebody in there and I've received a missus at dwelling, I am a rat. I can not search for a scapegoat – the buck stops right here."
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Marc and Cerys continued courting post-jungle, however known as it quits a 12 months later.
Marc has loved roles in different exhibits resembling Holby Metropolis and Footballers’ Wives spin-off Additional Time, and in addition embraced a profession in theatre.
In 2020, Marc starred in Sky One’s Agatha Raisin because the sufferer PC Beech and sequence Pennyworth.
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