Johnny Ward said it would be a "really stupid idea" for Fair City not to bring him back.
After a busy season swapping his bad boy image on screen for the ‘Johnny Be Good’ persona on Dancing with the Stars he admitted that he’d go back to Carrigstown in a heartbeat.
The 31-year-old actor, who is currently gearing up to return to the stage as Gino Wildes in Copper Face Jacks: The Musical told Irish Daily Mirror: “My job is like a holiday it really is.
“It is so much fun.
“Like teaching the kids drama and stuff like that I love doing that and then there is a bit of a break and we do this ‘words of the street’ literature festival and we have that and then Coppers as well.”
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Best known for playing Pauley in the fifth series of the critically acclaimed RTÉ drama series, Love/Hate, followed by controversial kidnapper, Ciaran Holloway in Fair City, Johnny said he loves delving into bad boy roles.
And after months spent in sequined shirts and dancing shoes, he said he feels his character, who has not yet been confirmed dead on the show, should make a comeback to the hit RTE soap.
He said: “I personally think it would be a really, really stupid idea for them not to bring me back.”
“What was supposed to be a seven month storyline ended up being a year and a half because it was keeping the ratings up and people that didn’t watch Fair City were all of a sudden talking about it.
“And all of a sudden I was in Love/Hate on a Monday morning and they were going ‘has he ever put that girl back in a box’ so people were really speaking about it.
“So I'd go back in a heartbeat. 100 percent.”
He added: “I want to go back to being a bad boy. I can’t wait to going back and do it again.”
The Love/Hate star said he is too much of a home bird to search for roles further afield.
However, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Keith Duffy in Eastenders, he admitted he'd like to have a go at some short cameos on soaps across the pond.
He told: “I love Ireland too much.
“But like Denise McCormack did Eastenders so I’d love to do something on and off like that but I don’t know.”
