Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Janus Womack)

[tammyy2j]

Well if Dirty Den returned I'm sure the writers will come up with a daft storyline also for her to return even though she stole Kat's baby

I think Ronnie has faced so more there is nothing more for her character imo

[Siobhan]

she will probably get away with diminished responsibility

Courts in the UK have been known to accept post-natal depression as mitigating circumstances when sentencing women for crimes.
In the past UK courts have taken into consideration if a woman who had committed a crime was suffering from post-natal depression.

[Perdita]

Samantha Womack has been tipped to tread the boards in South Pacific after she makes her departure from EastEnders.

According to the Daily Mail, the actress is in talks to take on the lead role of Nellie Forbush in a touring production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

Reports say that the show will begin in London in August before visiting various theatres across the UK from October to December.

Womack is expected to film her EastEnders exit in May. Her character Ronnie Branning is currently at the centre of the soap's controversial baby swap storyline, which will be resolved on screen before she leaves Albert Square.

The actress has previously starred in Grease and Guys and Dolls in the West End.

Womack's screen husband Scott Maslen (Jack Branning) recently said that the star "may well" return to EastEnders after taking a break from Walford. Meanwhile, recent reports suggested that she could be back on screen as early as 2012.

DS

[Siobhan]

Hang on.. Ronnie leaves in May but didn't they say that the baby swap storyline would be finished around easter??? so she will be in the square about a month after it is revealed or are they moving the story out to May?

[Perdita]

The story is meant to conclude at Easter time, Easter is late April this year, so she probably leaves early May

[parkerman]

The story is meant to conclude at Easter time, Easter is late April this year, so she probably leaves early May

The quote you gave from the Daily Mail however says, "Womack is expected to film her EastEnders exit in May", so if she's filming it in May doesn't that mean she will go in June some time?

[Perdita]

*Holds up hands* Only quoting back what it being published, personally don't care

[parkerman]

*Holds up hands* Only quoting back what it being published, personally don't care

I wasn't having a go at you Perdy, I was just pointing out what the Daily Mail said, trying to get the time line right.

[Perdita]

no offence, just quoting what I read

[walsh2509]

I think they went about the start of the story and afterwards the wrong way. The last couple of years shes had should have put her on course for a breakdown, if not having one. Finding her daughter was not dead after Archie telling her she had, then her being killed, then telling everyone her dad abused and raped her and he was the father of her child, that would have been enough to drive her over the edge. Then after all that, she gets some sort of normal lift and in love and pregnant , going to have another child that will be hers to watch over and see grow something she could not do with her first child, the baby dies. That ontop of the all before it would have been enough drive her over the edge and would go a bit radial rental, she looked to be in auto pilot with her dead baby in her hands.

Instead of the story of her being on the edge just a snap of the fingers being away from a total breakdown, they have her going about now as if nothing had happened.