“Everyone didn’t want to be the next Ken Barlow back then,” he remarked. You wanted to leave and perform other parts, particularly since you’re a professional actress.
He went to Los Angeles and “got very close” to making appearances in several major motion pictures, but he found it difficult to deal with the rejection.
“I think you don’t realize how lucky you are when you’re in a soap opera and have the closest thing to a nine to five job in acting that you can get,” Paul remarked. “Acting is a tough job.”
And you’re like, “S**t, man, it’s really hard when you’re out there.” It was a “detriment” to his acting career that he appeared on Love Island.
In 2005 with celebrities like Rebecca Loos and Jayne Middlemiss. He went on: “Suddenly, people said, ‘Oh, we don’t want to hire a reality star!'” This didn’t assist my acting career.
The casting directors were a little snobbish in that way; they didn’t want me to appear on a TV program where viewers would wonder, “Isn’t that the guy from Love Island?”
