FORMER EastEnders star Harry Reid has started a new profession away from the world of TV.
The actor, 31, played Ben Mitchell on the BBC soap for four years.
However, his current career couldn’t be more far removed from the glitz and glamour of life on screen.
Harry has posted on Instagram advertising his new decorating and scaffolding company.
He told followers: “Now providing scaffolding. Business continuing to grow.”
Harry first appeared in Walford as Ben in 2014, and was then axed from the soap in 2018 as Max Bowden took on the role.
He previously shared his disappointment at being cut from EastEnders in an interview with Digital Spy.
When asked if he would have wanted to keep on playing Ben, he replied: “Yes I would have. I always said I would have gone back. I’m disappointed because I love playing the character – it was a real pleasure as an actor to play a character like that.
“It’s a shame I won’t get to continue his journey but it’s the name of the game, it is what it is.”
However, he saw the bright side of the transition, adding: “I’m in exactly the same position as I was in when I originally left.
“I’m an actor, I come into this game to play different parts – not to play one for my whole life. It just means that the door is properly closed – but there are other doors.
“With another person playing the character, slowly but surely when you think of Ben Mitchell, you will think of his face instead of mine but in terms of my profession, what it does is it closes my chapter at EastEnders meaning that I am out of that world now.
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“If I were to go into a similar show, those doors then become open again. There are always silver linings.”
After leaving EastEnders, Harry went on to play Leonard Vole in the stage production of Witness for the Prosecution.
He also made a cameo in an episode of Doctors as police officer Leo Sampson.
