![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/huge-eastenders-actress-set-to-join-hollyoaks/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/newspress-collage-23069297-1689444627607.jpg&description=EASTENDERS actress Rita Simons is joining the cast of Hollyoaks. She played feisty Roxy Mitchell in Albert Square and reprised her role for a one-off special in April. 10 Rita Simons is set to make the switch from EastEnders to Hollyoaks Credit: Rex 10 The Mitchell sisters were controversially killed off by BBC bosses in 2017 Credit: BBC But I can reveal she is heading to the Channel 4 soap. A source tells me: 'Rita's new character will certainly ruffle feathers and is set to stir the pot. " Hollyoaks fans can expect plenty of fireworks.' Rita left the cast of EastEnders in 2017 after her character drowned alongside sister Ronnie. FROM WALFORD TO HOLLYWOOD She made a shock return as a hallucination earlier this year. It would not be the first time that EastEnders has brought back a character from the dead after Kathy Beale made a return years after her alleged passing. Kathy died off-screen, while Ronnie and Roxy's death appeared to be shown on-screen but Rita admitted to The Sun she refused to film certain death scenes and claimed that she only pretended to hold her breath in the New Year's Day 'drowning' episode. Rita explained: 'I got pulled aside a couple of days before filming the final scene by an exec, who I cannot name for legal reasons, who said to me, 'There are a lot of people upstairs who don't agree with this'. 'So what I was hearing was that people above did not agree. 'Why they couldn't help, I don't know. The politics there was so fraught at the time. 'And you have to let a producer do what they do and you have to let them find their way. 'They said, 'If you want any chance at ever bringing Roxy back, you have to refuse to die'. 'So I have sat on this for six years and said nothing. 'It has made me feel like vomiting because I feel so guilty about it. 'Now is the time to say I played that scene as if I was holding my breath. 'Go back and watch it online and you will see next to nothing of me at all. 'I also refused to do the coffin scene. I was){kind=link}
EASTENDERS actress Rita Simons is joining the cast of Hollyoaks.
She played feisty Roxy Mitchell in Albert Square and reprised her role for a one-off special in April.
But I can reveal she is heading to the Channel 4 soap.
A source tells me: “Rita’s new character will certainly ruffle feathers and is set to stir the pot.
“Hollyoaks fans can expect plenty of fireworks.”