Strictly Come Dancing 2022 contestant Molly Rainford is reportedly on the verge of landing a role in BBC One soap EastEnders.
News of the 22 year old's casting arrives via The Sun, with an insider telling the publication this week: "Molly joins a long line of former finalists who've gone on to bigger things than the competitors who've ultimately triumphed.
"But anyone who saw her on Strictly could see the entertainment world was her oyster."
EastEnders declined to comment upon OK's request.
Molly, who's been "inseparable" from ballroom co-star Tyler West for the last few months, would play the daughter of a new family moving into the Queen Vic, after former pub landlord Mick Carter (played by Danny Dyer) was washed away in the English Channel over Christmas.
Speaking of whom, the 45 year old actor might not be done with Mick just yet, as Danny revealed last month on The Jonathan Ross Show: "If it goes t**s up I can go back. I can turn up in three years' time, walk in the Queen Vic smothered in seaweed…
"They wanted to keep it open. I’m very privileged and grateful for that job. It really did change my career and my life."
Asked by the talkshow host, 62, about the reaction to his exit scenes, the star replied: "You don’t have much say in it, I just wanted it to be exciting and quite cinematic. It went down really well, a lot of people were quite touched by it.
"People were sending me all this stuff, TikToks of kids crying. It really upset them."
Danny, who has Channel 5's four-part bushfire thriller Heat coming out soon, went on to reflect: "It’s a very emotional thing, it’s such a big part of me.
"I tell you what it is, I’m lazy. It’s f***ing hard. 30 pages you’ve got to learn a day. It’s like a film a week."
His final scenes as Mick, which aired on Christmas Day, were heroic ones, as he tried to save his ex-wife Linda Carter after she and Janine Butcher plummeted off the edge of a cliff in their car.
The father of Love Island's Dani Dyer said of this dramatic watery sequence: "It’s all warm and lovely but to make it look like the sea they put broccoli juice in [the tank]. You smell of a***. It’s f***ing broccoli juice. Warm broccoli juice.
"It was very emotional, but I stunk."
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