FEW musings on their careers are as unintentionally hilarious as those evinced by the jobbing troupers whose names we can’t remember.

Hence blonde bint Samantha Womack – as Ronnie Branning in EastEnders – revealed pretty typical soap experiences of childhood rape, finding and losing a long-lost daughter, then kidnapping a new-born when her own died.

Six months after exit from TV screens for a fictitious spell in pokey, she revealed she won’t be making a swift return because that would be “too harrowing”.

Apparently, she’s only just recovered from being at the heart of so controversial a story and fears the “idea of having to be in that kind of harrowing pain again is too much”.

“Ronnie was so damaged and there are aspects of her storyline I didn’t agree with,” she says.

Crikey! Suffering for her art, eh?

Ms Womack, 39, who has thankfully recovered sufficiently to be appearing in a national tour of South Pacific, isn’t the stuff of theatrical dames like Dench/Mirren/Plowright.

Time she took herself a little less seriously – remembering that the tedious Ronnie kept her out of the dole queue.