Tell me what you lot think about this. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/news1.html

Ah he is just a stupid little snob who is only upset because his character got killed off(thank god).

He is very 2 faced too..... Calling his cast members all sorts of names!

I wounder how much is true? And i wounder how much the news of the world payed Jack Ryder to say all these things?

I say its all about money, money, money!!!!!!!!

Him and his wife suit eachother............... what a git!

i agree that its very two-faced of him to do that but it is true that a lot of the best storylines go to the slaters.however, i think this is fair enough because they are the best family in the square

I also think that before the Slaters came, the Mitchells got every storyline but still now the Mitchells get lots of storylines. Last year they had the xmas episode, this year they had the xmas episode.

bit silly of a so-so soap actor to slag of the cast and managment at the bbc. not very nice when you're looking for work - who'd want to employ him no matter what the truth of the situation was.

and thinks looks alone will get him work, it happens to a lot of actors when fame comes to them at a tender age.

Bit of a non-story to me! Someone has got the sack and hasn't got a good word to say for the people who sacked them? There's a surprise! Other actors who get axed from soaps are rather more generous - but maybe they have more expectation that they will find other work, or maybe they are mature enough to know that that's what comes with the job. Actors are incredibly lucky to get a long-running role in a soap and, like Jack says, it bought him his house, car, celebrity status, and a bloody good time. He'll find it easier to get work in the future than a lot of actors his age ever will.

The backbiting and jealousies that go on among the cast sound like what happens in a lot of offices - it's called office politics there! If he was as two-faced and as big a trouble-maker when he was working for EE then the other cast members are probably glad to see the back of him, and it MAY have been a factor when the bosses were deciding who should go. If it was that bad then he must have been glad to go ...

Frankly, if he was playing football in the corridors outside my office and his ball kept banging against my office door then I would do an Ian Lavendar and go out and tell him to bugger off. If it's treating him like he's a child then it's because he would be behaving like a child. I don't think it would make me a snob.

The Slaters ARE getting good story lines, but it would be stretching the bounds of credibility if they got ALL the good story lines in the future. At the moment it is their turn. Dot Cotton had her own hour-long special last week (and remember the episodes with Dot and Ethel?) and the Mitchells have had more than their fair share in the past, as have the Fowlers, and Den and Angie Watts, the Truemans, Ian and Cindy ...... It's not the Slater Show yet.

Like I say - a non story. But I'm sure he got well paid for it.

Not a very good policy if you want to get another acting job tho. I heard that he shaved off his hair to look hard and to get away from eastenders and he went to America and he was told that he looked like a 12 year-old

LOL

I think he appeals to teenage girls - he should make the most of looking young while he still can. Definitely not sexy - the Belinda/Jamie storyline was a bit far-fetched I thought.

I wouldn't employ someone I thought might cause problems with other cast members - unless he was a VERY big audience puller of course! He probably got £100,000+ for his story in News of the World - should keep him going for a bit, esp as he hasn't got a mortgage/car loan!

He would have got nowhere near that amount. He probably got about £10,000. If he got paid £100,000 the article would run every day of the week in the Sun like Tracy Shaw's article did. To pay £100,000 for one story you would have to sell about 400,000 more copies which hardly ever happens. Even the paul burrell story in the mirror sold only about 250,000 more copies a day.

I don't think that story will do this guy any favours accept raise his bank balance for a while.

Its s shame he had to turn to tabloid journalism.

I don't think it was a clever idea to speak to the papers. he probably made a few comments here and there which have been blown out of proportion. The Slater issue is interesting. I think we have had far too much of them and some of the others have been quiet - but at this moment they all seem to have a storyline. He was however underused over the years and I can understand his bitterness in that respect. I am sure if he was given more to do he would have stayed.

Smokefreegirl - I agree to some extend but he was not sacked. he is one of the few who wasn't. He decided to leave.

Do you work in the industry then Willful?

No I don' t, but I have a good idea of how much people can get as someone I know used to work at the Sun.

Nice to read someone being truthful - After so many celeb interviews saying how nice everyone is you begin to get a little suspicious.

I'm sure he'd have got more than that. If he didn't he's a fool.

He hasn't had a very interesting life, hasn't done much except being in Eastenders. Hasn't tried drugs or cheated on his wife or become a reformed character. All of these things make an interesting story and he would get more.All the story was that he felt mucked about and didn't like many people on set. If the papers pay any amount they have to justify that amount with extra sales.He wouldn't sell a lot of papers.

I can both sides of this. It's kind of refreshing to hear someone speak out rather than the stifled niceties that you usually get.

I think he is young and inexperienced. As has already been said, this kind of back-biting takes place in virtually every office, it did in my last job.

Most of it is people just letting off steam I think.

Having said all that, I think he's shot himself in the foot because who will want to hire him now they know he spills all the beans.

There must be some truth to what he said - no smoke without fire.

Jade got something like £60,000. You are guessing just like I am.

I agree to a certain extent, but lack of fuel results in
lots of smoke and then it goes out.
I do think he is very young and has his wisdom wings to develop. I do agree thay he will probably find it difficult to be trusted by anyone for a while though!

Jade got £250,000 and because of that she had an exclusive contract with rupert murdochs company for a week. Where do you get your own figures? You are guessing but I'm not.

its hard for anyone not in the"know" to estimate these figures, sometimes when someone gets too much too soon it can cause your life to change too drastically, dont think i would be able to predict what it would do to my family.