Jake Wood

Jake Wood has spent the best part of four decades building one of the most impressive CVs in British television. Best known as the roguish Max Branning in EastEnders, a role he has played since 2006 and returned to in 2025, he has also appeared in Only Fools and Horses, Red Dwarf, Doc Martin, Strictly Come Dancing and the West End thriller 2:22: A Ghost Story, for which he won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer. A British Soap Award winner with over 200k Instagram followers and the kind of face that every room in the country recognises, Jake is a natural on the PA circuit: warm, funny, and very much at ease in a crowd.