The actor, who\u2019s best known for playing Ian Beale on the long-running BBC soap, left in early 2021 for an \u201cextended break\u201d, but is yet to return. In his time away, he\u2019s appeared on stage in Looking Good Dead and of course took part in I\u2019m A Celebrity 2021 as a late arrival with Simon Gregson.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Steph McGovern about whether he would ever return to the character, Adam admitted the future is uncertain.<\/p>\n
When asked why he chose to leave EastEnders, Adam explained: \u201cI\u2019ve kind of left, but not left. It\u2019s kind of the way the storyline has gone\u2026 I\u2019m not there.\u201d<\/p>\n
But when pressed on whether he could go back, the actor cryptically replied: \u201cI could go back, and I could not go back. I don\u2019t know!<\/p>
\u201cThe speculation has been hysterical. I think everyone is always going to speculate.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there are no plans at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam went on to talk about how \u201cliberating\u201d his time away from Ian Beale has been.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been having a ball,\u201d he explained. \u201cBeing back on stage, I\u2019d forgotten why I fell in love with acting because you get that immediate response.<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\u201cYou\u2019ve got an audience. If you do something on television, you could be waiting six weeks to three months a year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam has been fairly consistent about whether he would return to EastEnders, telling Sunday Brunch in January (via Digital Spy<\/a>) that he had no plans to ask to go back.<\/p>\n \u201cI left because of the way the storyline was going, because Ian needed to go. Not me going, \u2018I wanna leave\u2019, or them saying, \u2018You\u2019re going\u2019. That was the storyline.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cThey\u2019ve got to come up with a storyline; they\u2019ve got to ask me to go back. The timing has got to be right for me to go back, because I don\u2019t know what else I\u2019m going to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Visit our dedicated\u00a0EastEnders\u00a0<\/a>page for all the latest news, interviews and spoilers.\u00a0<\/strong>If you\u2019re looking for more to watch check out our\u00a0TV guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n By Helen Daly Published: Friday, 01 April 2022 at 12:00 am Adam Woodyatt joined Steph\u2019s Packed Lunch earlier today (1st April) and spoke about whether he would return to EastEnders in the future. The actor, who\u2019s best known for playing Ian Beale on the long-running BBC soap, left in early 2021 for an \u201cextended break\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13173,"template":"","categories":[2,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale.png",1068,766,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale-300x215.png",300,215,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale-768x551.png",768,551,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale-1024x734.png",800,573,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale.png",1068,766,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/04\/adam-woodyatt-has-no-plans-to-return-to-eastenders-as-ian-beale.png",1068,766,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Helen Daly Published: Friday, 01 April 2022 at 12:00 am Adam Woodyatt joined Steph\u2019s Packed Lunch earlier today (1st April) and spoke about whether he would return to EastEnders in the future. The actor, who\u2019s best known for playing Ian Beale on the long-running BBC soap, left in early 2021 for an \u201cextended break\u201d,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/13172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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