Michelle Ryan is reportedly leaving BBC soap EastEnders a year after returning to the cast. Multiple reports say her character, Zoe Slater, is being written out of the show, ending the storyline following Ryan’s comeback. According to the accounts, her return did not generate the viewer engagement the production anticipated, and the decision is to remove the character from ongoing plots. The reports also indicate that Ryan has completed filming for her final scenes, with her last episode material finished last month. One outlet reports that the write-out involves Zoe Slater being killed off, while other coverage frames the change as a full character exit after the brief return period. Overall, the sources describe the same sequence: Ryan returns to EastEnders, stays for roughly a year, then the show moves to conclude Zoe Slater’s arc, with production activity for her final scenes already completed.