{"id":780752,"date":"2026-09-24T06:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780752\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:02:16","slug":"brighton-former-eastenders-star-sam-womack-visits-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780752\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton: Former EastEnders star Sam Womack visits hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The actress, best known for playing Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC soap between 2007 and 2017, posted a series of photographs from the seafront on Instagram on September 22.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alongside pictures of Brighton beach, deckchairs and a dog walk, Womack wrote: &#8220;Back to my hometown Brighton feeling nostalgic!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Brighton-born actress also shared images showing a meal on the seafront and a stroll near the city&#8217;s iconic beachfront railings &#8211; as well as posing for a black-and-white photograph outside Sams Burger on Whitehawk Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Womack, who was born in Hove and spent the first years of her childhood in the city, has previously spoken about her fond memories of the Sussex coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a 2023 interview, she told Coast Magazine that Brighton and Hove was the setting for some of her &#8220;earliest and happiest memories&#8221;, recalling family trips to the beach during her childhood.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Instagram post attracted thousands of likes from fans, with many commenting on the actress&#8217;s return to her home city or asking her to return to EastEnders.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Womack is best known for her roles in EastEnders, Game On and Mount Pleasant, as well as representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fellow ex-EastEnders actress Rita Simons, who played Womack&#8217;s on-screen sister Roxy Mitchell, commented: &#8220;My sister is fitter than your sister.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Womack is best known for playing Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders, one half of the soap&#8217;s iconic Mitchell sisters alongside Simons&#8217; character Roxy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ronnie was at the centre of some of the programme&#8217;s biggest storylines, including the murder of Archie Mitchell, the death of her daughter Danielle Jones and the controversial baby-swap plot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The character was written out in dramatic fashion on New Year&#8217;s Day 2017 when Ronnie and Roxy both died after a swimming pool accident following Ronnie&#8217;s wedding to Jack Branning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/topics\/zoe-ball\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zoe Ball<\/a>, television presenter Denise Van Outen, TV personalities Gaby Roslin and Glynis Barber, actress Fizz Sinclair and model Calum Best were among the other celebrities to comment messages of support.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Glynis Barber wrote: &#8220;Gorgeous Brighton and gorgeous you!&#8221; while Denise Van Outen added: &#8220;You look amazing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actress, best known for playing Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC soap between 2007 and 2017, posted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}