Nowmagazine : EastEnders stars Zoe Lucker and Charlie G Hawkins are to leave Albert Square later this year.
Zoe, 37, is set for a dramatic exit from Walford that will see an end to her relationship with Max Branning.
‘Zoe will go out with a bang,’ a BBC spokeswoman tells the Daily Mirror.
‘But the door has been left open for her return.’
Meanwhile Charlie’s keen to experience life as a ‘normal 20-year-old’ after joining the soap when he was just 13.