EastEnders star Ricky Grover has revealed he initially turned down his role because he feared his dyslexia would make learning lines too difficult. The actor, who couldn't read or write until he was 31, told the Daily Record he almost didn't take the part as Dot Cotton's nephew Andrew. "When I was offered EastEnders, I thought, 'Hold on a minute, this has all got to be word for word, and you've got to churn out script after script, and I am not going to be able to do it'. So I kept saying no," he explained. "They were saying, 'This is going to be brilliant for you, you'll fit right in'. "When I eventually read the part, I really liked it and I thought, 'I am just going to give it a go'. It has been a great discipline for me because I have had to learn lines and what I didn't realise was they are really good about you being loose, as long as it works." But Ricky - whose soft-hearted character has been left heartbroken by the death of fiancee Heather - admitted he still found learning lines a challenge. "Even now, I'm not a brilliant reader. I put a lot of my lines into a dictaphone and listen to them and memorise them," he said.
