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
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan of the second series, 5 SCOTS and Kemp are ambushed by the Taliban within 30 minutes of his first patrol, targeted by small arms fire and RPG rockets, as well as mortars. Kemp is extricated to safety by crawling 50 metres along a ditch. In a later contact, after coming under fire, Kemp unwittingly ran into an area Kemp described as "probably" featuring the pressure plate devices used to detonate IEDs and mines, necessitating 30 steps back to the cleared area. During the filming for the second series, 100 metres from the crew a 22-year-old Royal Marine was fatally wounded