Rita Simons and Samantha Womack have 'amazing scripts' for shock EastEnders return
Fans have demanded that Rita Simons and Samantha Womack's alter egos, Roxy Mitchell and Ronnie Mitchell, respectively, return to EastEnders since the characters were killed off in 2017.
EastEnders' Rita Simons and Samantha Womack have some "amazing scripts" for a shock Roxy and Ronnie Mitchell return from the dead storyline.
Fans have sent "plausible" plots to the duo since their alter egos died on Ronnie's wedding day to Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) on the New Year's Day 2017 episode because they are desperate for the on-screen sisters to come back to the BBC soap.
Asked by Betway if Rita - who played Roxy - has ideas for a storyline, she revealed: "Well, I mean, it is the question I get asked about 100 times a day, and I say the same thing every time: in soap, you never know.
"I do have some amazing scripts that have been sent to me, and so has Sam over the years, because our fans, and I love our fans, still send stories. Some of them are so plausible.
"So, if ever we were to be approached, I’ve got a story. We’ve got a load of stories up our sleeves."
However, Roxy and Ronnie will not be back on Albert Square anytime soon.
Rita, 49, added: "At the moment, there are no plans. We are both doing our own things and quite happy with life."
Roxy and Ronnie died on the latter's wedding day to Jack on the 2017 New Year's Day episode of EastEnders.
Ronnie jumped into a swimming pool to save a drunk Roxy from getting into trouble, but Ronnie's dress weighed her down, and the pair met their untimely deaths by drowning together.
And Rita admitted it was a "massive blow" for her and Samantha, 53, to be axed from the soap after 10 years.
Asked how shocked the pair were when Roxy and Ronnie were killed off, Rita admitted: "We were absolutely blindsided because in the soap, that’s how it goes, but generally killing off legacy characters is [not too common].
"I think since me and Sam went, they’ve been much more careful about killing off legacy characters because we’ve still got fans to this day demanding us back, and it’s been nine years since [it happened].
"But we were absolutely blindsided. It was our job. We worked there. We spent 14 hours a day there, and we had a weird, non-related-by-blood family there. But it was a massive blow, and it was hard, but that’s soap."
In April 2023, Rita returned to the soap, playing Roxy as a "figment of her daughter Amy's imagination" in an emotional scene where Amy (Ellie Dadd) imagined she was sat with her mum during a family therapy session.
And in September 2025, Samantha said she was open to exploring how Ronnie could return to EastEnders.
