Get Johnny Week Get Johnny Week "Get Johnny Week" is a week-long storyline in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", which was first screened at the end of March 2006. The storyline refers to the character of Johnny Allen (Billy Murray), and also features the characters of Ruby Allen (Louisa Lytton), Grant (Ross Kemp) and Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), and Jake (Joel Beckett) and Danny Moon (Jake Maskall). "Get Johnny Week" is an "EastEnders" storyline that reunited the popular characters Phil and Grant Mitchell (aka the Mitchell brothers) in 2006. Actor Ross Kemp, who played Grant continuously from 1990 to 1999, was persuaded to
Steve Owen (EastEnders) I said no so I could feel what it was really like. My wrists were raw by the end of it and I was exhausted, but that was the challenge I wanted." Kemp decided to leave "EastEnders" at the end of his contract in 2002, to move from the BBC to rival station ITV. He said of his decision: "I have had a wonderful time at "EastEnders" and I will be very sad to leave, but I feel that its time to move on." It was reported that "EastEnders" producers decided to kill off his character as "revenge" for how