Depending on your view it's either a fitting tribute or a case of expelling some on-screen demons.
Or more likely the fact she just happened to be staying in a hotel. Whatever her true motivation, the actress who played Ronnie Mitchell, Sam Womack, decided to spend the morning after she was killed off in an eerily similar manner to her character's watery end.
In the New Year's Day special, Ronnie drowned in a hotel swimming pool after she dived in in her wedding dress trying to save her sister Roxy, who'd passed out after going for a drunken late-night dip.
Shooting the scene, which saw the actresses spend a fair amount of time lying motionless under the water, can't have been easy. But it doesn't seem to have fazed the 44-year-old.
Yesterday morning Sam tweeted.
https://twitter.com/Sam_Womack/status/815857731953430528
Adding that rather than with her onscreen sister Roxy Mitchell, she'd taken this less fatal dip with Stacey Solomon instead. Not sure that's an upgrade?
https://twitter.com/Sam_Womack/status/815868188487467009
But even though Sam assured her followers she'd emerged from this hotel pool unscathed, it was still too soon for some EastEnders fans.
https://twitter.com/ScottMaslenUK/status/815859872235421696
https://twitter.com/aliy_kendrick/status/815942591954948100
https://twitter.com/SamandRita4lyf/status/815891075068022784
While others took it upon themselves to offer the actress some sage aquatic advice.
https://twitter.com/Glorious_Gooner/status/815858035428098048
https://twitter.com/sunshine__xo/status/816055879132966912
A solid tip for any swimmer.
Shooting the scene, which saw the actresses spend a fair amount of time lying motionless under the water, can't have been easy. But it doesn't seem to have fazed the 44-year-old.
