EastEnders star Danny Dyer looked completely unrecognisable while on the set for his new Disney+ series, The Rivals.
The 45-year-old was seen for the first time during production sporting a bushy moustache alongside co-star David Tennant who was snapped wearing an oversized black coat.
David, who recently presented BBC’s Comic Relief, could also be seen wearing a white shirt and bow tie under his coat.
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Meanwhile Danny was also dressed smartly and was spotted wearing a brown wig.
The new Disney+ series is based on the iconic Jilly Cooper novel in Gloucestershire and was filmed in a 16th century country house in the same location.
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Doctor Who star David plays the role of Tony Baddingham who is the TV chief and it has been confirmed that Danny will play the role of Freddie Jones.
Various cast members could also be seen leaving the Gloucestershire house alongside the stars.
Father-of-three Danny departed from his role as the Queen Victoria landlord in dramatic scenes during the highly-anticipated Christmas special last year December.
The EastEnders hardman dived into into the Chanel to save his beloved ex-wife Linda after he finally realised his relatioship with Janine Butcher had come to an end.
But fans were left gutted when Danny’s character Mick Carter failed to emerge from the water.
Danny joined the long-running BBC soap in 2013, when it attracted almost eight million viewers a night.
However in the past year or so the viewing figures have decreased to 2.5 million an episode.
Speaking openly to Kugan Cassius on his boxing YouTube channel iFL TV, Danny revealed that this was one of the main reasons why he left the show.
He said: “All I got for the past couple of years was, ‘You still in that EastEnders? I don’t watch it anymore.’ Constantly, that was the thing.
“When I first came in there was like seven or eight million people watching it, of course because of streaming services and all that stuff a lot less people do watch it.
“It was more that people didn’t watch it anymore, ‘you still in that?’ it was all that sort of dialogue.
“It was a lot of people, a lot of young people, young people don’t watch it.”
He also added that his character Mick was involved in too many far fetched storylines which made things “odd”.
The star said: “I didn’t quite know who I was playing anymore, it was an odd thing.”
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