Hollyoaks' Kurt Benson star Jeremy Edwards reveals why he's stopped acting after 30 years
06.09.2023 - 17:59
/ ok.co.uk
Hollyoaks alumni Jeremy Edwards has opened up on why he has turned his back on fame after being a heartthrob in the nineties. The actor, 52, played Kurt Benson in the Channel 4 soap and was once in a high-profile celebrity couple - engaged to S Club 7's Rachel Stevens. But now Jeremy has given up acting to pursue a different career after parting ways with his agent last year.
He is now teaching drama at Film UK in Hampshire after deciding, post-Covid, that acting was too unpredictable - especially given that he now has a family. He is a father-of-two and happily married to wife, Lydia Metz. Jeremy told The Sun: “During Covid the simple fact was there was no work and now there is an actor's strike in America.
There are so many reasons why you can be out of work and I thought, this is so unpredictable and I have a family.
I thought I've got thirty years of experience here, what am I doing? "I could be helping people. So I started doing some classes with people helping them with scripts and speeches and then it slowly developed into a business and now I work with various groups and I'm teaching kids in Hampshire.” Jeremy’s mum was a teacher and he said helping young people was more fun and rewarding than acting. He also said he gets more nervous being in front of a classroom of youngsters than being on TV because ‘kids don't suffer fools’.
Jeremy married Lydia in 2009. Before that, he was engaged to Rachel Stevens but they split in 2003. Jeremy said he and Rachel had been offered £2million for their wedding photos but turned it down.
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