Lucy Porter reflects on ‘bucket list’ moment appearing on EastEnders
Lucy Porter has looked back on the "amazing moment" she got to cameo on EastEnders.
Lucy Porter has reflected on her “bucket list” moment of when she appeared on EastEnders.
The 53-year-old comedian cameoed in the BBC soap as Mitch Baker’s (Roger Griffiths) love interest Rita in 2022, and Lucy has now looked back on her “amazing moment” in EastEnders.
Speaking with Metro newspaper’s 60 Seconds With column, she said: “My mum loved EastEnders and she was called Rita, like the character I played.
“I had to stand in the laundrette and take out washing from a machine Dot Cotton would have touched - an amazing moment.”
Lucy is set to hit the road once more for her upcoming stand-up tour Let Yourself Go, and the comedian has revealed the meaning behind its name.
She explained: “I really liked the double meaning of it. It sprang out of someone giving me some very kind feedback after I’d been on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, saying I’d let myself go.
“Initially, it stung, but then it really made me laugh, because there’s that sense of people saying, ‘Oh, you’ve let yourself go’, when you’re younger, which means you’ve had a great time drinking, dancing, enjoying yourself.
“When you get to my age, people mean you haven’t brushed your hair or had enough Botox.”
She added: “I thought I’d celebrate ‘letting yourself go’ in midlife - being kinder to yourself and not as exacting, doing the things I want to do rather than out of duty or wanting to fit in or be cool.
“It’s a celebration of midlife, which is pretty much every show I’ve done for the last 10 years - me desperately trying to find the positives in my body and mind falling apart!”
Elsewhere in the interview, Lucy reflected on being diagnosed with ADHD, and how it has changed how she sees things.
She explained: “When I started doing comedy, it was amazing to find other people who couldn’t hold down a job, who led random, chaotic lives, who liked being up at night, who felt like misfits and weirdos and who could thrive in this little world.
“My life would have been a struggle if I hadn’t found stand-up, because I was physically incapable of sitting at a desk for eight hours.
“The diagnosis has been useful, but I found a way to adapt my life to the way my brain works.”
