Reception
The character, originally intended for one week's worth of episodes, proved popular with viewers, and was turned into a regular because of this. According to an article in The Sun newspaper in 2004, Mickey's actor Joe Swash received "1,000 letters a week from besotted girl fans", more than EastEnders' "main hunk" Nigel Harman, who played Dennis Rickman.
Jaci Stephen, critic for the Daily Mail described Mickey as "fabulous" in 2004; however, in 2005, critic for The Mirror, Jim Shelley, branded Mickey a moron and one of EastEnders' weakest characters. During a period of heavy media criticism aimed at EastEnders in 2004, Shelley stated that the serial's "Tiresome obsession with petty crime" was one of the reasons for its decline in quality, with Mickey listed as one of the soap's "myriad criminals."
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