This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. Confused, you will be. Because

every time you open up the newspapers, Danny Dyer is either spiraling out of control or, according to his daughter, there's nothing to matter with him.

He's just taking a little holiday by himself in South Africa.

Odd place to go to. But there you go. You thought you'd want to go with people. He had a couple of beers at the airport. He had a couple of beers on the plane. He flew first class. And EastEnders are playing down everything. There's nothing to matter with him. He's very professional. He's done this. I said

this very same thing yesterday. I said, depending on what you want to believe on the television or in

the newspapers, he's just tired and flustered. And then they've got pictures in the paper today. They're

sort of making all sorts of allegations about him. I mean, to be honest with you, I've got no idea. I know he likes a drink. I know he swears a lot. I've never seen

his character. I mean, I'm aware of who his character is in EastEnders, but I don't know

anything about him. They're obviously playing it down because I suppose you could blame it on

the fact that he's working so hard. But then

if he's doing 16 hour days, presumably everybody else is doing 16 hour days. So it doesn't seem

to have affected them, does it? Perhaps he's sort of, I don't know, perhaps he's just one of

those things. Anyway, then according to the papers as well today, as you heard earlier on,

his mother begged him, uh, well, it actually begged Alan Carr not to let Danny get drunk

because he just, he can't survive without the booze. But then there's loads of people like that.

Some people function very well on booze and stuff like that. It does seem odd that as opposed to

going on holiday with the family, which would kind of dispel any rumours about where he was going.

He jets off alone to South Africa, which, as I pointed out to you the other day, they think he's

going to this rehab centre. But the trouble is, if you're famous, you can't jet out of anywhere

without somebody going, Danny Dyer was on our flight. In fact, there were people on the flight

who've already gone back to the newspapers gone. He was on our flight. He was drinking on the flight

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