the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, over the 2015–2016 Christmas and New Year period. In August 2016, it was announced that Simons was leaving EastEnders along with Samantha Womack. Her on-screen character Roxy Mitchell drowned in a swimming pool in an episode broadcast on New Year's Day 2017, along with her sister Ronnie. Simons appeared as Paulette Bonafonte in the 2017–2018 UK tour of Legally Blonde: the Musical in 2017. In 2019, Simons played the role of ‘Miss Hedge’ in the hit musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre. She was to take on the role of Velma von Tussle in the 2021 revival of Hairspray at the London Coliseum. In 2022, she joined the cast of TV show, Professor T. Charity work In December 2009, Simons visited her old secondary school, Watford Grammar School for Girls, to open the Christmas fair. In December 2010, Simons launched the RNID Christmas Concert where she announced that her five-year-old daughter is deaf. In July 2011, Simons held an autograph session at the St Nicholas Primary School summer fair in Elstree. In December 2011, Simons hosted the annual Action on Hearing Loss concert along with the Mayor of Camden, Councillor Abdul Quadir. She appeared on a Big Star's Little Star episode, broadcast on 1 April 2015, and won £13,000 for charity. Filmography Television Film Theatre Accolades See also List of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) contestants References External links Inside Soap Awards 2008 1977 births Living people English people of Jewish descent English Jews Jewish English actresses English female models English television actresses English soap opera actresses People with obsessive–compulsive disorder People educated at Watford Grammar School for Girls 21st-century English women singers 21st-century English singers I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) participants