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Samantha Womack wants Babes in the Wood revival

Samantha Womack wants to go back to comedy – by reviving Babes in the Wood.

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The 43-year-old actress will bow out of EastEnders as Ronnie Mitchell early next year and is hoping her departure will make room for a revival of the sitcom she starred in during the 90s.

The blonde beauty would love nothing more than to sink her teeth into something light-hearted following nine years of hard-hitting storylines in the BBC One soap.

Speaking to the Daily Star, she said: “A lot of things I’ve been attracted to have been the opposite of Ronnie. I was looking at re-runs of Babes in the Wood the other day, and everyone is saying, ‘It’s the comeback season, you should bring it back.’

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“I was watching online thinking, ‘Yeah, it would be nice to bring it back and do it again.’

“Mainly I just need to remember what it’s like to be outside of the EastEnders family.”

The Mount Pleasant star told the soap’s bosses she was planning to quit earlier this year and while she’s looking forward to shooting her dramatic final scenes, which will air in the new year, she never expected the producers to kill her character off.

She explained: “It’s a job – it has to have an end at some time. I’ve done many things over the years, but I never had the opportunity to have complete freedom. It’s a strange time for me and it’ll be even stranger filming the last scenes.”

Samantha’s on-screen sister Rita Simons – who plays Roxy Mitchell – is also expected to die in the horrific scenes next year and they’ll both miss working with one another as they’ve spent almost a decade together portraying the double act.

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She said: “I’ve probably spent more time with that one individual than I have with any of my family working together 14 hours away, and we’ve never had an argument.”

Details on Ronnie and Roxy’s grisly end are being kept tightly under wraps but it seems their deaths won’t be without a fight as they’ll reportedly take their last breath under water.

A source said recently: “Their [Ronnie and Roxy] exit is one of the big dates in the soap calendar. The swimming pool scene they’re working on will be huge and a real talking point for EastEnders fans. It’s going to be a grisly and gruesome death.

“From the minute it was revealed they [Samantha and Rita] were leaving, and even before, the writers have been trying to think of a brilliant way to kill them off.”