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HOLLYOAKS legend Jeremy Edwards has revealed his new side hustle.Every Saturday, the actor, 54, is using his decades of industry experience to give students at the UK Film Academy insight into life as a performer.TikTok/dat.
shopping.guyJeremy Edwards has revealed he’s started tutoring youngsters on Saturdays[/caption]BBCJeremy as Danny Shaughnessy in Holby City[/caption]He admitted to a few first day nerves at the weekend, but it appears it went well and Jeremy took to TikTok again this week to clear up that it’s not a full-time position or a career switch. The Celebrity Big Brother star also addressed past reports that he’d given up acting to become a builder.
Instead, it turns out he helped a landscape gardener friend on a project 11 years ago, for which he was paid, but it was far from a permanent new job.He responded to a troll who accused him of “having a nightmare” for trying his hand as a tutor and manual labourer.Speaking in front of Winchester Cathedral, Jeremy said: “I think if people see you’ve been on TV a) they think you’re rich for the rest of your life and b) if you do anything else, you’ve failed.
“Well, I haven’t failed. I work a lot. I’m writing scripts, I’m working on Ideal World presenting several nights a week, I do tutoring, anyway I don’t need to make my case.
”He added: “I’m still an idiot trying his best to pave his way in the world of acting and entertainment and, do you know what, I have fun doing it.”His fans were very supportive with one commenting: “Keep being you. Very admirable.
Love this post and it resonates x.”Another said: “You keep doing what you’re doing, whatever works for you and your family. It’s clear you have a strong work ethic which means turning your hand to many things to earn money and feel centred.
”A third wrote: “Thank you for sharing. It shows how varied life an employment is.”Jeremy is probably best known for playing hunky biker Kurt Benson on Hollyoaks before joining the cast of BBC medical drama Holby City.
In his younger years he was dubbed ‘Britain’s Sexiest Man’ and his popularity carried through into appearances on reality TV.He finished in fourth place on Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and has also been a contestant on Dancing on Ice and Celebrity X Factor. Jeremy’s tutoring role isn’t his first foray into the world of teaching.
The star, whose mum was also a teacher, taught kids drama at Film UK in Hampshire.Channel 4Jeremy found fame as Kurt Benson is Hollyoaks[/caption]GettyJeremy was once dubbed Britain’s sexiest man[/caption]He said at the time he found helping young people was more fun and rewarding than acting.“We are giving kids confidence which takes them forward in life,” said Jeremy.
“I’m not just teaching. I’m helping people. “It’s a safe space for them.
You get to pretend to be someone else for a bit and it’s fun. “They know they aren’t going to get picked on, they know they are going to learn skills, and they are going to have fun on stage and they get to work with someone who was on TV.“Even if they don’t go into acting they would have built up their confidence.
”Jeremy Edwards' big Hollyoaks returnIn 2020 Jeremy returned to Hollyoaks 21 years after his character Kurt Benson was seemingly killed in a jet-ski accident.The actor, who was once engaged to Rachel Stevens, was in the first-ever episode of the soap alongside best friend Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pickard).Jeremy did briefly return to the Chester show in 2013 as a hallucination protecting Tony’s son during an episode of Hollyoaks Later.
However, his latest stint saw the character appear in the flesh in similar fashion to Nico Blake (Persephone Swales-Dawson) in 2018, Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe) in 2015 and Warren Fox (Jamie Lomas) in 2011.Though Jeremy previously said the soap was “everything” to him, he was unimpressed with how bosses used Kurt upon his return, turning him into a conman.On a 2021 episode of podcast Soap From The Box, he said: “It became a bit of a s**t show.
“I was supposed to be back for much longer, then Covid struck. It would have been better to leave it alone because it wasn’t one thing or the other, they didn’t know where they were going with it.“I was prepared to go for six months to a year but doing three months then not knowing my future?“The fact is, Kurt’s alive, he can come back and they’ve said they want me back in future.
“But I’ve said, ‘Nah’.”.
