Samantha Womack is reborn as Morticia in The Addams Family Musical

With Ronnie Mitchell laid to rest, Samantha Womack has been reborn as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family, writes Ed Power.

Samantha Womack has been famous practically her entire adult life. She was just 18 when, under her maiden name of Samantha Janus, she represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest (finishing a respectable tenth). A starring part in the BBC’s cult 90s sitcom Game On followed, with the actress becoming a staple of lad mags such as FHM and Loaded.

“Looking back, I think ‘gosh, I really didn’t have any time to grow up,” she says. “Every boyfriend, every story about me, was reported extensively — I was always in the public eye. It must have been very hard. At the time I accepted it. To me, it was absolutely normal. When you are young you think that’s how it is.”