BBC EastEnders legend Ross Kemp drops major hint about returning to soap he 'still loves'

Ross Kemp has hinted he could return to EastEnders - a show he admitted he 'still loves'. The actor, who shot to fame playing Grant Mitchell, discussed whether he'd be making a surprise comeback for the BBC soap's 40th anniversary.

During Friday's instalment of ITV's This Morning, hosts Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond quizzed Ross about going back to Albert Square. He said: "I can tell you nothing. I am very proud that the show is celebrating 40 years and I wouldn't have had a career good or bad without it.

"I still love it, I still love it, and I still support it every way that I can. I can say no more than that."

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The 60-year-old stared in the soap from 1990 until 2000, with his character returning briefly in the late 2000s. He went on to carve out a career fronting hard-hitting documentaries and his new show Ross Kemp: Mafia And Britain hitting screens next week.

He told Dermot and Alison: "In the series, we go from being in the UK, to America, to Miami looking at the connections between the cocaine trade and I ended up...it stopped becoming a history programme and became real when I was at 4,000 feet and it was nearly 40 degrees at night time.

"I've got a helmet on, body armour and we're traipsing round the mountains. I'm going 'We'll be out at 03:00!' but we're still stumbling around at eight o'clock in the morning. They often kidnap the soldiers and I lose the nail on my big toe. No longer a history documentary, now medical!"

Ross Kemp: Mafia And Britain, will air on Sky History at 9pm on Tuesday, September 10.