He began his career playing the memorable bad boy Drew Curtis on Home and Away in 2006 at the age of 21.

And now Aussie actor Bob Morley has spoken candidly about the impact fame had on him during his early career.

‘For me it was very difficult to process, the lack of anonymity,’ the now 37-year-old told TV Week.

The actor, who was starring on the Australian drama series The Strip when he made the comments, explained he was glad he was now on a program ‘where it’s not based on taking your shirt off’.

‘It wasn’t a good place to be in. Home and Away is a great place to learn, but it’s a machine and it can chew people up and spit them out. I stepped out not really caring whether I had another job,’ he said.

Bob later apologised for those remarks in an interview with News.com.au in 2014 and acknowledged he was being ‘completely and utterly rude’ when he made them.

‘I’m still young and dumb, but I was even younger and dumber then,’ he said.

‘Upon reflection and after these years, it’s one thing I regret doing. It was just my ignorance and my lack of experience and I projected that onto them.’