EastEnders star Rita Simons made an emotional return to the Square last night six years after her character Roxy Mitchell was killed off alongside her on-screen sister Ronnie (Samantha Womack).
And Rita, 46, has revealed her tears were not just down to incredible acting but also in part because she filmed the scenes just five weeks after having major surgery.
In Thursday evening’s instalment of EastEnders Roxy appeared in ghost form as a figment of her grieving daughter Amy Mitchell's imagination.
