Samantha Womack quits EastEnders

The BBC has confirmed that Samantha Womack will be to stop 'EastEnders' when her present-day contract ends.

Even so, they didn't comment on tabloid reports that the actress made a decision to leave the display because of a controversial storyline in which her character, Ronnie Branning, switches her dead baby with another couple's youngster.

Talking about her departure, a BBC spokesperson mentioned: "The existing storyline will allow an exit for Ronnie Branning. Samantha Womack is a significant part of the show's results lately and she will continue to do the job with us until finally her departure later this yr."

Today's Sun claims that Samantha handed producers her resignation when she initially study the script for your New Year's Eve episode final November.

A supply informed the paper: "The last couple of months at get the job done are already awful for Sam. The very first time she examine the script, she believed it was wrong and pushed boundaries as well far. It was such a delicate concern, she knew it might induce a massive backlash.

"All she could contemplate was the reaction of dad and mom, especially mothers, who had misplaced children to cot death. She saw the story as a mother initially and an actress 2nd, which made her realise issues had gone also far."

Earlier this week, it was exposed that greater than three,400 viewers have complained regarding the baby swap plot.

The BBC responded yesterday that has a statement which explained that the show's producers had taken 'great care and attention' and sought professional recommendation when establishing the storyline.

It added: "It's essential to note there exists definitely no inference that Ronnie's actions are in any way common of a bereaved mother of a newborn child. In her grief and desperation at the discovery that her very much longed for child has handed away, and discovering herself inside the exceptional circumstance of getting alone with her neighbour's newborn son, Ronnie acted on impulse inside warmth of your minute, devoid of really realizing what she was undertaking, or thinking about the consequences or repercussions.

"Over the coming weeks, we are going to see Ronnie and Kat every coming to terms with all the loss of their infants, and explore how they re-build their lives in the wake of such tragedy. Viewers will see the situation resolve by itself about the coming months."