EastEnders spoilers: Lauren Branning and Abi Branning exit – how will Jacqueline Jossa and Lorna Fitzgerald leave? When will it air?

EastEnders viewers were left devastated after it was confirmed that actresses Jacqueline Jossa and Lorna Fitzgerald – who play sisters Lauren and Abi Branning – are set to bow out of the BBC One soap 11 years after the characters made their debut. Lorna has played Abi since 2006, while Jacqueline took over Madeline Duggan’s character of Lauren in 2010. But, while the girls’ exit storylines are a top bolt from the blue  – Abi dropped foremost hints about …