Samantha Womack rules out returning to EastEnders because she argues with bosses too much
SAMANTHA Womack has ruled out ever returning to EastEnders as she reveals that she argues with the show bosses too much.
The former soap actress admitted she was always ending up in bust-ups with fellow castmembers and crew before "getting sacked".
Samantha, 49, who is best known for playing Ronnie Mitchell in the iconic BBC One soap, quit TV in 2017 and turned her attentions to the stage.
Since then, the former television star has toured the UK as Moriticia Addams in the stage production of The Addams Family.
The mother-of-two has now revealed she doesn't plan to get back into telly as she thinks of herself "more of a theatre actress now".
Samantha told the Daily Star: "It suits me much better in so many ways - the hours, for a start. I'm awful first thing in the morning, I can't function.
"They say people are either night or morning people - and I'll happily sit up til 5am, but when you're on a soap you have to get up at 5am."
But that wasn't the only reason, as the actress admitted she has a habit of "falling our with everyone in television" as she gets "irritated" on set.
"Someone is always telling you what to do with your character and I just get really irritated," Samantha added. "I end up arguing and then getting sacked."
It's for this reason she's called time for good on EastEnders - and because her character was killled off before her departure in 2017.
"Now, I really love my job and I hate losing control over how a story is told," she concluded. "I need something that gives me more creative control."
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It comes months after Samantha said she could return to the soap if asked - and even has a plan to get round the fact her character is dead.
Speaking to she called the decision by BBC bosses to end the character for good a "huge blow".
But she explained that she would be up for returning if the script was up to scratch, and suggested that Ronnie could have faked her own death.
Referring to her character's cousin in the Mitchell family, she said: "Billy works in the mortuary. He was working in the funeral parlour.
"Someone sent me storylines of people that had faked their own deaths to come out of situations. It's really funny."
Pressed on whether she would take up an offer to return in a plot whereby Ronnie has been "so damaged she faked her own death", the actress said she was open to the idea.
