 On 13 August 2016, it was reported that new producer Sean O'Connor had offered Womack a "dramatic ending" to Ronnie's storylines and that Womack had accepted.Her departure scenes were broadcast on 1 January 2017.Following the New Year's Day episode where Ronnie and Roxy were killed off after drowning in a swimming pool, the BBC released a 10-second alternate ending clip on their Snapchat account, in which Ronnie survives, finding Roxy's corpse on a pool table with Jack.