Jake Wood says ‘EastEnders’ only has enough episodes to stay on screen until June.
The 47-year-old actor – who has played Max Branning since 2006 – is now off work along with all of his co-stars and the crew due to production on the BBC One soap being shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bosses have reduced the weekly transmission schedule to two pre-recorded episodes per week so the show can stay on air, but Jake admits that if filming doesn’t resume soon then ‘EastEnders’ will disappear from the schedule by the start of summer.
He said: "Beyond that, I really don’t know what’s going to happen."
Jake has been spending his time off work at home with his family, wife Alison and their two children Buster and Amber.
To keep busy he has continued to record his weekly boxing podcast ‘Pound For Pound’ with his friend, retired boxer Spencer Oliver, and he has also been carrying out DIY jobs around his house.
Jake admits he spent three days in a row cleaning his house with a pressure washer and he thinks he became obsessed with using his jet washer to distract himself from the seriousness of the coronavirus disease, which has killed over 4,000 people in the UK.
He said: "I’ve been jet washing. I was doing it for three days man. I had my headphones on and I was banging out this crazy dance music. I couldn’t hear anything, I just had this mental music in my head. I did that for three days, I think I was just freaking out I think it was just my way of coping."
Jake Wood says EastEnders can only stay on screen until June
