“I was an arrogant little twit,” Ross Kemp tells Radio X

Ross Kemp was a guest on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X this morning where he admitted to being ‘an arrogant little twit’ during the height of his Eastenders fame.

Kemp, who recently returned to acting for Channel 5’s thriller Blindspot, also said he ‘thought he was the dogs’ at the time and can “embrace”’ the confidence of today’s young actors.

The admissions came after co-host Dominic Byrne asked if he could remember how to act because he hadn’t done it for so long.

“That is debatable,” he responded. “I think my wife says I act every morning when it comes to doing breakfast and emptying the dishwasher,” he joked.

He added that he did a three-year apprenticeship at drama school which was like an apprenticeship.

“It’s not like you’re learning how to weld but it sort of stays with you and I also hope but it’s not for me to say, he said.

After spending 20 years travelling around the world meeting quite interesting people, he hopes that some of it has ‘rubbed off’ on him.

“I’m older… if you’d have met me when I was first in Eastenders’ getting 28 million people, I thought I was the dogs, I really thought…”

Chris interjected that it’s understandable, to which Ross replied: “You know what Chris, you and I have been around a long time, now when I see that in other people, particularly young people I love it, I embrace it.

“I can see where it’s coming from particularly with all the social media there is out there now, but there wasn’t that, there were only four channels if you were lucky, so everybody sat down around their dinners and watched Corrie or watched Eastenders or Emmerdale.

“I was an arrogant little twit, I have to admit that, most of the time, but hopefully life has mellowed me, has taken off the edges and hopefully that comes through in the acting, he added.

The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X weekdays  from 6.30am – 10am and on Global Player.