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Former EastEnders star 'joins rival soap' two decades after leaving Albert Square and starting a new life in Australia


The actress played Laura Dunn in EastEnders, Ian Beale's third wife, from 2000 until she was killed off in 2004.

The new role comes two years after Hannah married The Bill star Huw Higginson in Australia - five months after her famous father Dennis died. Hannah acrimoniously split from her EastEnders co-star husband Ricky Groves in 2009, after he said the actress revealed she had been having an affair with Huw and was leaving on New Year's Eve. She left Ricky on New Year's Eve 2009, before Huw moved into her Essex home in June 2010 after having issues in his own marriage to Geraldine Dove-Higginson, with whom he shares a daughter.

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