EastEnders star Jake Wood reveals his wife was almost KILLED by an alligator

EastEnders actor Jake Wood has recalled the terrifying moment his wife was almost killed by an alligator during a family holiday in Florida in 2014.

The Max Branning actor, 46, was on a boat trip in the Florida Everglades with wife Alison Murray and their children Buster and Amber when they were confronted by the man-eating crocodilian.

The former Strictly Come Dancing star told the Daily Star his children had begun screaming when they spotted the alligator approaching his wife as she paddled, with the incident leaving them 'scarred for life.' 

She narrowly avoided being eaten alive before getting out of the water safely.        

He said: 'She was standing in the water about 15 feet away when I see this thing floating down the river.

'So I'm looking at it and thinking: 'It's got to be a log or something. Got to be a log.'All of a sudden it f***ing goes down and I f***ing see an eye. All the kids are screaming, I'm screaming: 'Get back in the boat!' 

'As soon as an alligator goes underwater you don’t know where it is, it was horrible. It was only about 15 feet away.'

MailOnline