EASTENDERS stars Samantha Womack and Rita Simons have reunited – and sparked hopes for a back from the dead comeback to the soap.
The on-screen sisters posed for a picture nine years after they were brutally axed from the BBC soap.
They played Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell in EastEnders until 2017 when they both died on Ronnie’s wedding day.
Posing together, Rita captioned the snap: Look who I found! #r&r in liverpool @samzjanus was absolutely incredible in @dearenglandplay.”
The picture had fans desperate for a comeback with one commenting: “look, we’re all prepared to just forget the whole drowning thing ever happened and move on. bring them back.”
Another added: “i’ll never ask for anything in life again if we saw r&r return!!”
Samantha, who plays Ronnie and Rita Simons – who played her close sister Roxy Mitchell – made their debut in EastEnders in July 2007.
However, Sean O’Connor took over as the executive producer role from Dominic Treadwell-Collins and made the decision to axe the sisters just ten years later.
He decided to kill off the popular Mitchell sibling duo in a dramatic fashion after Ronnie’s second wedding to Jack Branning (Scott Maslen).
Samantha has admitted that she felt rejected by the new boss, as she admitted that it was not her decision to leave.
She told The Mail: “It was really hard for us because it wasn’t in our hands.
“We didn’t make the decision to go. I don’t really understand what happened, one producer was leaving and another was coming in, I don’t know what went on.”
However Rita has since told The Sun that the pair would be up for returning – should bosses take the brave step to fix the mistake of killing them off.
“It just doesn’t, it doesn’t stop,” she said.
“Someone, I won’t name them, said to me the other day ‘the resilience of your fans is impressive’.
“And it is. Listen, if it was a meeting, we’d be there. But no, I’ve been having lots of very sort of, I’m looking at the gritty dramas, the comedies, the gangster stuff.
“Of course, if EastEnders came knocking, we’d definitely have a conversation.”
