Rita Simons is best known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2017. She won the 2008 National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer for her role. Since leaving Eastenders she has carved out a very successful stage career appearing in Legally Blonde: the Musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre and in the 2021 revival of Hairspray at the London Coliseum. Rita was a contestant in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2018. Rita Simons is guest number 176 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

Artwork by Matthew Boxall .

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