Benedict Cumberbatch is dying to put on a cockney accent and appear in EastEnders, it has been revealed.

The Sherlock star has promised the soap’s executive producer that he’ll make a cameo – if he manages to find time out of his busy schedule to make the trip to Albert Square.

Dominic Treadwell Collins revealed at the Radio Times TV Festival: ‘I really want Benedict Cumberbatch to come and do a turn. And he says he’ll come and do it but he is slightly busy.

‘But he would be my dream.’


The pair have been friends for years and it was his mum who first spotted Cumberbatch’s potential.

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Collins recalled: ‘We were doing a performance – my first play at school – As You Like It. He was Rosalind, I was Audrey the Country Wench.



‘I ran up to my mum and said, “Mum, mum, mum, was that any good?” and she said: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were fine. That’s an actor [alluding to Cumberbatch]. He’s going to be the next Olivier.”‘

If Benedict does make it onto the BBC1 show, he should probably steer clear of Danny Dyer.

Dyer, who plays Mick Carter, previously claimed that Benedict would be ‘bullied’ if he stepped into a pub like the Queen Vic.

He told Radio Times: ‘In this country, he has got utmost respect, but if he walked into a pub he’d get annihilated by geezers, he’d be bullied.

‘He couldn’t play a kid from a working-class estate, but I couldn’t do what he does either.

‘I think that I could play Sherlock, though, if I did it my way. Benedict’s brilliant and the lines roll off his tongue, but that role is about being highly intelligent rather than posh.’

Benedict, please come to Walford to prove Danny wrong.

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