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"BBC soap EastEnders caused the most controversy this year when storyliners took the decision to kill off Ronnie Mitchell&amp;#039;s (Samantha Womack) estranged daughter Danielle Jones (Lauren Crace).  EastEnders&amp;#039; executive producer Diederick Santer still stands by his decision, though. He recently told DS: &amp;quot;I knew there would be a reaction to Danielle&amp;#039;s death - I felt it when we storylined it, when I read the script, when I went on set on the day we filmed it and when I watched the cut. I perhaps didn&amp;#039;t perceive that it would upset some people to the extent that it did, but I still believe it was the right outcome.&amp;quot; Their bold exits didn&amp;#039;t stop there, however - Trina Johnson (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) subsequently died at the hands of a rake when her husband Lucas (Don Gilet) caused her to fall back on it and pierce her neck, while Owen Turner (Lee Ross) was murdered with a bow tie.  Meanwhile, over in Hollyoaks, bad boy Warren Fox (Jamie Lomas) was killed by a huge falling mirror in The Loft, before Bryan Kirkwood masterminded UK soap&amp;#039;s first death by parachute in E4 spinoff Hollyoaks Later. Click through our gallery below as DS celebrates a year of soap departures. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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