EX-EASTENDERS star Jo Joyner revealed she'd often row over scripts in her twenties that wanted her to expose her boobs and have unnecessary sex scenes.
The actress, now 41, also explained how she was targeted by a bizarre foot fetishist who updated her Wikipedia page to read that she had size eight feet.
In an interview with the Mirror, Jo told how the #MeToo movement appeared to have changed the types of roles she gets offered, although she couldn't be sure it's not because of her age.
She said: “There was a period of time when as a 25-year-old blonde actress you’d get a script and you’d flick through it thinking, ‘Where is it? Where is the bit where I’m going to have to row about getting my boobs out or we’re going to have to accommodate a sex scene and negotiate things’.
“I don’t know whether it’s that I’m older now and it’s just not that part I’m going for. I don’t get a sense of that now.”
It wasn't just on-screen that Jo's body was being sexualised, but of it too.
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Lifting the lid on her unwelcome foot fetishist, she said: “I had a foot fetishist. He would change the size of my feet constantly to a size eight.
“Then I had another fan that used to go on there and change it back because they knew it was wrong but I could never get in touch. They are a size five. I’m 5ft 2in, I’d look like a clown if my feet were eight.”
Last week Jo ruled out a return to EastEnders and a reunion with Sean Slater - having last appeared in 2017.
The 41-year-old famously played Tanya Branning on the BBC1 soap, but despite her former onscreen boyfriend (Rob Kazinsky) making a comeback - Jo hasn’t got any plans to join him right now.
Speaking to The Sun Online, she said: “There is always scope as long as you have got family that are in the show but not for me at the moment.”
Jo Joyner plays Tanya Branning who nearly kisses Sean Slater in a 2007 episode of EastEndersGot a story? email digishowbiz@the-sun.co.uk or call us direct on 02077824220.
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