He also played Mitchell Harper in Bad Education between 2012 and 2014, and again from 2022 to 2024, as well as Aaron Monroe in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2021 to 2022.

The performance brought largely positive comments from the judges, though Morgan and Holden said that the jokes were "terrible" but that they still loved the act.

[6] He appeared on the E4 comedy The Inbetweeners in the episode "Work Experience" playing Danny Moore, a pupil who beats up Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas).

[7] He also played the main role Mitchell in the BBC 3 series Bad Education, written by comedian and actor Jack Whitehall, from 2012 to 2014 and also appeared in the 2015 spinoff film.

[8] In 2021, he became a series regular in EastEnders as Aaron Monroe, reuniting him with Gillian Taylforth, who played his mother on Hollyoaks.

Wernham returned to Bad Education for the 2022 reunion special and became co-lead of the show, alongside Layton Williams, for the fourth and fifth series.