Watch Danny Dyer call himself a ‘p***k' as he opens up about drug-fuelled benders and split from wife Jo in The Assembly

The Sun

26-04-2025

DANNY Dyer admits wife Jo deserved better when she kicked him out the house for his wild drug-fuelled partying.
The actor, 47, faces a tough grilling from people with autism and learning disabilities in the new ITV programme The Assembly, with no subject off limits.
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In a new clip from tonight's show, one plucky young woman asks about his split from Joanne Mas.
She says: "When Jo kicked you out she emptied your shared joint bank account, do you still have a shared bank account now?"
Danny furrows his brow and jokes he was going to give the girl a hug before she hit him with the stinging question.
He then candidly accepts he was thrown out and says: "I was a p***k and she deserved better.
"Sometimes I'd go out, get off my head, take drugs; I wouldn't come home for three days.
" She had every right to throw me out. She controls everything now."
Danny and Joanne got together in 1992, and have three children - Love Island's Dani, 27, daughter Sunnie, 17, and son Arty, six.
The Rivals favourite previously admitted to being guilty of cheating before they married in 2016.
Speaking to The Times, Danny said: "It was a mad period. I do now realise what's important to me are my family. They are everything.
"I tried to fill it with the drink and drugs and doing stupid things. I was a lost soul.
Danny Dyer takes swipe at his kids as he defends his 'working class roots' after sending son to private school
"I had a 'f*** it' button and I would destroy relationships before I could be left."
In The Assembly, he also gets called out for sending his son Arty to a posh school - despite being known as a hardman from London's East End.
"How working-class was it to send your son to a private school?", asked one audience member.
"Good question," said Danny, who is also a dad to daughters Dani and Sunnie Dyer.
"I'm very proud of my roots, but do I want to be living in an environment where, especially at the moment where there's helicopters going over my house all the time and sirens all the time, a lot of crime? Of course you don't.
"So what you want to do is, you want to earn some money and then move to a better area where you can bring your children up.
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"When you have kids, you want to give them everything you can.
"Sometimes it backfires on you slightly because now they're not street-wise.
"I walked everywhere as a kid or I had to get a bus.
"I don't think they've ever been on a f***ing bus, my kids.
"They don't have to, do they? Because they get driven door to door by a Bentley."
Danny is the first celebrity interview of the series to be aired this weekend.
The new ITV show will also see ex Doctor Who actor David Tennant Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker and ex-Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall face the panel's questions.
The Assembly starts Saturday at 10.05pm and continues at 10pm on Sunday on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player
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