EastEnders’ Rita Simons has revealed she still has the dress her soap character died in – seven years since her exit.
The actress, shot to fame playing Roxy Mitchell on the BBC soap – making her debut in 2007. Along with sister, Ronnie (Samantha Womack) the pair quickly became firm-favourites.
And it’s fair to say Roxy played a part in several big storylines. From her doomed marriages to becoming the landlady of the Queen Vic, her time in Albert Square was not short of drama.
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However, in 2017, Roxy and Ronnie were tragically killed off after 10 years on the soap. In one of the soap’s most controversial episodes ever, the sisters met their untimely deaths by drowning together on Ronnie’s wedding day.
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And now, seven years on and Rita has shared how she still has the dress that Roxy wore when she died on the soap. The blonde bombshell made an appearance on ITV’s new reality show Drama Queens on Wednesday (April 24).
Having moved to Liverpool for her new Hollyoaks stint, in the latest episode Rita was unpacking her boxes in her new home. With the help of her beau Ben Harlow, it didn’t take long for Rita stumble across some EastEnders memorabilia.
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Rita, who is playing Marie Fielding on Hollyoaks, then pulled out the death that her character Roxy died in. Picking up the slinky black dress, she showed it her beau and told him: “Do you know want that is? That’s the death dress!”
The blonde beauty went on: “I died in this dress.” Rita added: “It’s actually really depressing because it’s so small!”
It comes after earlier this month, the mum-of-two hinted she could make a return to EastEnders. Appearing on Good Morning Britain Rita was quizzed whether a return could happen. Co-host Ed Balls asked: “Did you actually drown?”
Rita then responded with a coy smile and a cheeky eyebrow raise. Determined to get answers, Ed grilled her further and said: “You could be a Dirty Den returner!”
The TV Star replied: “Listen, [there] was Dirty Den’s return, Michelle [Collins] as Cindy…I think in soap when you get asked to go in a coffin, you say no. I did!”
Meanwhile Rita’s on-screen sister Samantha Womack has been open about her EastEnders ‘axe.’ In an interview with John Bishop from 2017 she said: “It ended up with the character being killed off.” John then said: “That decision,” before Samantha chimed in and quipped: “Was not mine.”
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John went on: “Did you go ‘oh thank god for that?’” as Samantha proclaimed: “No! I was devastated because I wasn’t planning to leave.
“I was waiting to meet the new producer [Sean O’Connor]. He was coming in, I was excited because I though she [Ronnie] had got really dark and it become really over sensationalized. So with this new guy coming in, great, I’d heard he wanted to take it back to kind of reality, less murders. And I was thinking great, thats right up my street.
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