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Hollyoaks' newest matriarch Rita Simons stuns in first look image of her character Marie - as she joins the soap seven years after leaving EastEnders


Hollyoaks' newest matriarch Rita Simons stunned in the soap's first look image of her character Marie.

The former EastEnders star, 46, is set to film alongside Rory Douglas-Speed, Jamie Lomas, who also appeared in EastEnders, and Jennifer Metcalfe.Marie will sneak into Chester in prison attire, and her first order of business will be to steal Mercedes' red dress from the McQueen washing line. Rita has kept herself busy, and in December she starred in the pantomime Beauty And The Beast at the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells. The actress shocked fans everywhere when she and her on-screen sister Samantha Womack were jointly killed off EastEnders after a decade

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