Strictly star Rose Ayling-Ellis has left EastEnders to focus on her dancing with her professional partner Giovanni Pernice. Viewers of the popular BBC soap watched on Tuesday night as the 26 year old's character Frankie Lewis heartbreakingly decided that she needed a break from Walford.
She paid an emotional goodbye to her father, Mick Carter, played by Danny Dyer, before jumping into a taxi with a friend to leave town.
While it looked like soap star Rose's final scenes, she has explained that bosses at the show were able to give her some time off so she could focus on her dancing.
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