I can’t say too much yet but watch this space. "I am absolutely chuffed to bits and so excited to be briefly joining the cast of EastEnders. Lee continued acting, making cameo appearances in The Bill and Birds of a Feather before landing a role on EastEnders in 2019 - playing a hilarious bus driver who clashed with Danny Dyer's Mick Carter. It took me a bit of time to sort myself out." "I remember thinking, 'I can't box any more, I'm not acting and I'm here putting keys in a bag' and my early 20s were really dark because of that. "After the celebrity of being in Grange Hill and the excitement of the boxing, here I was, aged 21, working in a wholesaler. "I was absolutely devastated," he told The Guardian in 2009. The actor required 40 stitches in his head and was told it could take one year to recover his memory, but worst of all he told that he would never box again.
His hopes and dreams were dashed when he was involved in a horrific car accident that saw him thrown through the window screen. To this day, Zammo's heroin addiction remains one of the show's heaviest storylines.Īfter bowing out of the role, Lee turned his attention to becoming a professional boxer but his career was ended before it could take off.
Lee was just 12-years-old when he started playing the role of Zammo - staying in the show from 1982 until 1987.
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