Quirky World: Fans vote soap star exit the all-time cliff-hanger

EastEnders villain Janine Butcher pushing her new husband Barry Evans off a cliff has been named as the best soap opera exit of all time.

A fifth of 2,000 people surveyed chose the dramatic moment as the most memorable character departure in a poll to mark the exit of one of comparethemarket.com’s meerkats.

One of the cuddly characters will have what the firm has described as a ‘shock exit’ in a Christmas Day advert.