Dean Gaffney

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Dean Gaffney

Profession: Actor
Place/Date of Birth: Hammersmith, London, 14 February 2021

Dean evicted from celebrity jungle -Nov 30 2006
Dean Gaffney has been booted off I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! - and the jungle camp is set to lose another celebrity contestant.

The first stage of the double eviction saw Gaffney, who came to fame as Robbie in EastEnders, lose out to David Gest and Jason Donovan in the public vote.

It may have been Gest’s performance as the pair collected the celebrity chest that swung the vote.

Gaffney, who was a late entrant to the ITV show, panicked as he and Gest confronted pecking emus to collect emu eggs.

But while Gaffney looked terrified, Gest told the birds: "Yeah, you want talk? You want to dance? You wanna boogie?"

Still, Gaffney did not go home empty-handed, after the celebrities held this year’s Jungle Awards ceremony.

Gest explained Gaffney’s award as owing to the fact that "after one drink he is like ’Where am I?’"

He added: "So the Where Am I Award goes to Dean Gaffney.

"He was on Coronation Street for 10 years and made a great impact with his performance as Bobbie Ewing."

But Gaffney could not let Gest’s comments go unchallenged, saying: "It was not Coronation Street. I was in EastEnders."

Heading to the jungle – Nov 2006
Heading to the jungle to appear in ITV’s I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, 2006. read more

Other contestants:
Jason Donovan
David Gest
Lauren Booth
Myleene Klass
Matt Willis
Toby Anstis
Faith Brown
Jan Leeming
Scott Henshall
Phina Oruche

Biography

Hammersmith born Dean Gaffney entered the world on Valentines Day 1978. A graduate of the Sylvia Young Stage School he started off with a small one off role in The Bill before hitting our screens as unlucky in love Robbie Jackson in Eastenders.

Outside of the world of soap Dean hasn’t been quite so incapable with the ladies. A regular in tabloid gossip pages Dean hasn’t let his face hold him back and has had flings with, among others, glamour models Jordan and Alicia Douvall. In between big breasted conquests Dean has found time to appear in reality TV show The Club and, according to reports, request his Enders job back. He is now set to appear on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!