Sam Womack quits Eastenders
 

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EASTENDERS star Samantha Womack has quit the show over its heavily-criticised cot death storyline.
Sam, 38, was horrified by heartbreaking scenes in the BBC1 soap where her character Ronnie Branning lost her baby James - then swapped him for Kat Moon's newborn lad Tommy.

Samantha decided to quit EastEnders after viewing its shock cot death storyline "as a mother first and an actress second", it emerged last night.

Great news

:shocked:

Glad someone took a stand. Ridiculous story

:( I'm gonna miss Sam and Ronnie on the show.

She never smiled though.

Mind you, does anyone on that square.....

I only dip into EastEnders every now and then but unfortunately I did manage to catch that episode and it was just soul destroying stuff.

Stupid bloody storyline. The current crew of writers need to make us care for the characters and feel their joy. Not just lampoon the viewer with one devestation after another.

It was a step too far.

"A spokesperson for the show has yet to confirm the report."

Tbh I don't actually believe it was just over that storyline, there were rumours before that she would quit once her current contract was over because it's obvious that playing Ronnie is exhausting and think she wants to spend more time with family, do other roles etc.

It's safe for Maggie O'Neill to come back now as Suzy because her and Sam had a big bust up and disliked each other:blush:.

i never saw that episode? what was it like?

Good, the storyline was ridiculous, depressing and far too unrealistic.

Corrie pisses all over Eastenders at the moment.

Have to say i tried defending this the other day and couldnt it was just too much, I mean the scenes were very harsh for pre watershed stuff....I know quite a few people who have turned off....

Bet they are kicking themselves over this story now. Thousands of complaints and now they've lost a great actress and a main character.

EE has always been far fetched but no... not this. Stupid stupid stupid

The complaints are so far near 4,000 and not near the 9-10 million viewers EE gets, yes fair enough people are entitled to complain but OFCOM can't do anything because it's been aired and can't just force them to scrap the storyline as if it didn't happen. Some of those people might still be watching tbh...

Surely the ******ing stupid bint knew what she was doing when she filmed the scenes?

Jesus Christ. I hate this woman so much.
I remember like 2 years ago, well just after Daniella died, Sam Womack called me pathetic and was like 'Don't you have anything else to do?' and it was all because I left a 'rude' comment on the website about Ronnie :rolleyes:


Her head is up her own arse.

And you people who complain about the storyline, ****** off and don't watch it.

Anyway, I can't tell you how glad I am she's gone.
Hopefully she'll kill herself, Ronnie I mean not the actress.. I don't hate her that much.

But I mean if she quit, realisticly she isn't coming back and the only option would be to kill her off.

Murder wouldn't fit, actually Kat could do it because she has reason but after all the bollocks Ronnie has had, it'd be fitting if she just jumped off the bridge Andy Hunter was pushed off.

She was still under contract Patrick. It's not as simple as that

No surprise there

I'm not saying that the complaints will have any affect on the show, just that the storyline was too harsh....I mean a woman who has lost her daughter, miscarried then lost a baby to cot death all in what 18 months? She loses her baby to cot death then just spur of the moment decies to snatch another baby......

Omfg D:

It's a good storyline actually though...

And?

She's still under contract now but still quit.

Here it is in a simple form:

She filmed the scenes without a problem, seen the massive blacklash the storyline got and sh*t herself so quit the show.

Didn't she have two miscarriages? (at least) all in the space of about 3 weeks. I thought that was crazy enough.... how often does she flippin' ovulate?!

Don't watch then.

Read the link you idiot. She planned to leave as early as November. You cannot just walk out of a job. She would have been sued for lord knows how much by the BBC for breach of contract. She planned to leave as soon as she could, if this story is to be believed, and that is exactly what she is doing.

Fair Dos.