Tina Carter has been missing for over a year after being brutally murdered - but life has changed for the better for actress Luisa Bradshaw-White.
Poor Tina had her life taken by serial killer Gary Atkins in terrifying scenes after she rumbled his lies and her lifeless body was taken to the boot of his care before being hidden inside the Argee Bhajee.
In tonight’s emotional episodes, the devastated Carter family will be delivered the traumatising bombshell that Tina isn’t on the run from the police and is actually dead.
What they won’t immediately be aware of is that Gray, who is seen as a pillar of the community and a close friend, was responsible for her murder.
Tina might be gone, but what has Luisa been doing since her time on Albert Square came to a dramatic end?
As viewers didn’t actually witness the moment Tina died on-screen, many believed she may still be alive, but Luisa confirmed that sadly this was not the case.
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"I’m happy with the fact that she can’t come back, so it’s a proper shut door, the final nature of it I needed," said the actress after Tina's final scenes aired.
"Tina is a character I have invested a lot in and a character that I really love, so to see that end is quite sad.
"When you do an acting job you usually know the ending, this is the only job where you don’t really know the ending.
"So after all those years in a character and then you find out the ending, it’s quite a strange experience."
Having made her first appearance in Albert Square in November 2013, it must have been a big shock to Luisa to find herself heading out of Walford.
Having first appeared as Maria Watts in Grange Hill from 1991 to 1994, Luisa then starred in London's Burning, A Touch of Frost, The Bill, Birds of a Feather and Bad Girls alongside Linda Henry, who would become her on-screen sister Shirley Carter in EastEnders.
After an action-packed career, Luisa has now quit acting and moved to an exciting new career.
The ex-EastEnders star has revealed that she has finally found her “calling” after moving into the world of dance.
Luisa ow hosts Ecstatic dance classes, which she says are the perfect way to experience the excitement of going out without having the dreaded hangover.
Ecstatic dance is a type of dance and aerobic exercise where people completely let go and let loose to the rhythm of the music.
The 46-year-old and her business partner are setting up a class in the small village of Chorleywood in Hertfordshire, which is near to where EastEnders is filmed in Boreham Wood.
Luisa is introducing the unique classes after she found comfort in the exercise a few years ago and loved the euphoric feeling.
The 'sober rave' classes don't follow specific steps as people move freely to the music
As well as hosting the sessions, Luisa is also the DJ and offering participants cacao drinks which adds to the feeling.
Luisa told HertsLive : "Everybody drinks the cacao [tree that produces cocoa beans] so there's a little bit of a ceremony and then people just start dancing and I DJ the music to start really, really chilled and then the beat picks up and the cacao really opens your heart.
"The cacao and the music together is such an awesome combination."
Before joining the cast of EastEnders, the actress played midwife Lisa Fox in Holby City from 2001 to 2005.
She added: "When I was in Holby City, I couldn't just be in Holby City, I went off to learn an alternative therapy that fed my soul because acting doesn't."
Last month, a fresh-faced Luisa was pictured outside the dance school wearing purple hippy trousers, UGG boots and an army camouflage jacket.
She gave a thumbs up to photographers as she headed inside her new business venture.
Now that she’s not filming on EastEnders, Luisa is also able to spend more time with wife Annette Yeo, who she has been married to for six years.
The couple had a civil partnership in 2006 then married in 2015 when it became legal in the UK - with their teenage daughters as bridesmaids.
Luisa and Annette adopted three and four-year-old sisters over 15 years ago and burst into tears after seeing a photo before they had even met them.
"I knew the girls were my children. I'd bought them clothes before we had even been approved to have them," said Luisa.
Luisa has touchingly described Annette as her "anchor" and "best friend" as well as the nickname "Mumma Muff".
In April this year, Luisa shared a gushing tribute post for her wife to mark Lesbian Visibility Week.
She wrote: "For those of you who don't know... I have been with my wife @annette.yeo for 21 years.
"We have two teenager daughters. We are a very happy family. Live your truth."
Luisa has also recently opened up about living with Bipolar disorder, writing about her experience in an inspiring essay for Mental Health Awareness week in May this year.
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows.
"I have Bipolar Disorder, which luckily I have been stable from from years, although I look back and am shocked I didn’t get diagnosed earlier as I see patterns of it throughout my whole life," Luisa told The Metro.
"Bipolar took me to a land of hell, that I just couldn’t seem to get back from.
"My highs were so out of control and left me extremely vulnerable and my life was full of fear and anxiety."
Luisa explained that it was breathwork which finally changed everything for her.
She added: "That and persistent self love and self care. Through breathwork I learned to swap the agitated out of control constant rush of adrenalin (the bipolar high) for what I now call a spiritual euphoria, which was just infinitely better!"
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