Lytton wanted "massive" Walford exit

Louisa Lytton has revealed that she would have liked her EastEnders exit to be more dramatic.

The 20-year-old actress said that Ruby Allen was given a low-key departure because the character's father Johnny (Billy Murray) had just been killed off.

Lytton told FHM: "I left EastEnders in the back of a taxi with my dad's ashes on my lap, but something massive and dramatic would have been pretty cool."

She continued: "But my dad had just died, so I couldn't go with him unless I died at the same time, which would have been a bit heavy, even for EastEnders."

Lytton starred as Ruby on the Walford soap from 2005 to 2006. She has since appeared on The Bill and Strictly Come Dancing and is now said to be plotting a move to Hollywood.