EastEnders star Danny Walters has apologised after offensive tweets from his past resurfaced this week.
The 25-year-old Keanu Taylor actor is speaking out over two now-deleted tweets from his teenage years in which he used homophobic insults while chatting to one of his friends before his acting breakthrough in Benidorm.
"I am very sorry for posting these immature comments to a friend when I was 19 years old," Walters said on Thursday (April 18).
"It's not language I would ever use now and I'd like to apologise to anyone I've offended."
A friend of the actor also told Digital Spy: "Danny is feeling absolutely mortified that something he posted when he was younger has come back to bite him. He doesn’t have a bad bone in him."
Walters has become involved in some of EastEnders' central storylines since arriving as part of the Taylor family in the summer of 2017, including a lurid affair with Sharon Mitchell (Letitia Dean).
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Keanu only recently returned to the Square after being shipped off on a dangerous job to Spain by Sharon's husband Phil (Steve McFadden).
He's continued to work with Phil, but their alliance was tested last week when Keanu discovered Ben Mitchell (Max Bowden) had got them all involved in a human trafficking ring.
Next week, Keanu will be front and centre once again when he's sent by a desperate Phil to save Louise Mitchell (Tilly Keeper) from sinister kidnappers who are holding her ransom.
EastEnders continues on Friday night (April 19) at 8.30pm on BBC One.
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