Michelle Collins revealed on This Morning on Wednesday that her husband Mike Davidson is unbothered by her steamy scenes on EastEnders.
The actress, 62, spoke to Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard about Mike’s reaction to her character Cindy Beale’s raunchy activities.
Cindy is currently dating ex-husband Ian Beale but is secretly also trying to win back second ex-husband, George Knight.
On Tuesday night, Cindy was distraught after yet another rejection from George, and found comfort in the arms of George’s son Junior.
The pair spent the night together beginning with a passionate tabletop scene which Michelle thought was worth giving Mike, 39, the heads-up about.
Michelle Collins, 62, revealed on This Morning on Wednesday that her husband Mike Davidson is unbothered by her steamy scenes as Cindy Beale on EastEnders
The EastEnders actress, 62, spoke to Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard about Mike’s (pictured with Michelle in March) reaction to her character’s raunchy activities
Cindy is currently dating ex-husband Ian Beale (right) but is secretly also trying to win back a second ex-husband, George Knight (left)
Michelle explained: ‘I don’t normally watch the show, only because I can’t bear watching myself, not that there’s anything wrong with the show.
‘But, I thought I better watch it last night because I was on here. And I had kind of warned my husband what had happened.
‘So, I said: “Do you mind not watching with me? I want to watch it on my own.” So, I watched it on my own first upstairs, then he watched it later on catch-up.
‘And he went: “Well it was OK, it wasn’t exactly Game Of Thrones, was it?”
This was met with loud laughter from Cat and Ben and Cat said: ‘That’s brilliant from Mike, that’s brilliant.’
Later reflecting on her character, first introduced in 1988, Michelle said: ‘She’s become everything that we are told as women not to be.
‘She’s insecure, she’s over-emotional, she loves too much. She acts before she thinks about things.
‘But I do think that situation happened last night where she’d been rejected by George, she’s going through a bad time with Ian.
On Tuesday night, Cindy was distraught after yet another rejection from George, and found comfort in the arms of George’s son Junior
The pair spent the night together beginning with a passionate tabletop scene which Michelle thought was worth giving Mike the heads-up about
Michelle explained: ‘I don’t normally watch the show, only because I can’t bear watching myself, not that there’s anything wrong with the show’
‘But, I thought I better watch it last night because I was on here. And I had kind of warned my husband what had happened’
Michelle continued: ‘So, I said: “Do you mind not watching with me? I want to watch it on my own.” So, I watched it on my own first upstairs, then he watched it later on catch-up’
To Michelle’s surprise and Cat and Ben’s great amusement, Mike replied: ‘Well it was OK, it wasn’t exactly Game Of Thrones, was it?’
‘And, I don’t think she manipulated it but I don’t think Junior manipulated it either. They’ve both kind of been rejected by George…’
Michelle added: ‘Listen, I don’t understand it – and I’m playing her! I have to get my head around why, why does she do these things?’
When the affair is revealed, Cindy will have to deal with major fall-out from George and from Ian, whom she lives with.
EastEnders airs Monday to Thursday at 7:30pm on BBC One and from 6am on BBC iPlayer.
When the affair is revealed, Cindy will have to deal with major fall-out from George and from Ian, whom she lives with
