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EastEnders recruits real-life partners for ‘intimate’ scenes – BBC News
The cast’s real-life partners are being recruited as body doubles to enable safe filming.
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Ian Beale (played by Adam Woodyat) and Dotty Cotton (played by Milly Zero) act on either sides of a Perspex screen
The real-life partners of some of the EastEnders cast have been drafted in, to allow “moments of intimacy to be cheated” when the soap resumes.
The new recruits will act as body-doubles so that “crucial moments where two characters are kissing” can be filmed following government guidelines.
The BBC said the move was just one of several measures being taken to kee…
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