Danniella Westbrook
Danniella Westbrook is an English actress and reality television personality. She played Samantha Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 19901993, 19951996, 19992000, 20092010 and 2016. Away from EastEnders she has presented various shows, and was also a contestant on the ITV show Im a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here in 2003. She competed in the 2010 series of Dancing on Ice with US Pairs Skater Matthew Gonzalez and finished fourth in the competition. In 2013, she appeared in Hollyoaks as Trudy Ryan. In 2016, she took part in the seventeenth series of Celebrity Big Brother where she reached the final and finished in fifth place. OnFebruary 2016, it was confirmed that Westbrook would return to EastEnders, very briefly with onscreen brother Grant, for the death of their onscreen mother Peggy Mitchell .
Westbrook was born in Walthamstow, London, but grew up in Loughton, Essex. Her father Andy was a cab driver, and later a carpet contractor, while her mother, Sue, was a shop assistant. Her parents were also successful property developers. Westbrook has two brothers, the eldest, Justinher fathers son from a prior marriage and a younger brother Jay. She has commented I came from a very loving family you know, 2.4 children with a Volvo.
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