'Enders stars attend Janus wedding

The cast of EastEnders attended Samantha Janus's wedding to long-term lover Mark Womack in London yesterday.

Stars including Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell), June Brown (Dot Cotton), Adam Woodyatt (Ian Beale) and Larry Lamb (Archie Mitchell) arrived at Claridges Hotel in Mayfair to celebrate the couple's nuptials.

John Partridge (Christian Clarke), Rita Simons (Roxy Mitchell), Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell), Cheryl Fergison (Heather Trott), Linda Henry (Shirley Carter), Jo Joyner (Tanya Branning) and Shona McGarty (Whitney Dean) were also among the wedding guests.

All Saints singers Nicole and Natalie Appleton and Mel Blatt joined Janus's soap co-stars for the ceremony.

Janus and Womack announced their engagement in February after ten years together. The pair first met when they both appeared in police drama Liverpool 1.

The couple have two children, Benjamin, eight, and Lily-Rose, three.

Janus, who plays Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC One soap, was previously married to Italian Mauro Mantovani.