Jacqueline Jossa speaks out about Dan Osborne split rumours, selling £1.6m family pad & says she ‘laughs’ at trolls

JACQUELINE Jossa opens up connected her matrimony to Dan Osborne, her fittingness travel and what we tin expect from EastEnders’ 40th-anniversary show.

It's rather unusual to spot Jacqueline Jossa grinning from receptor to ear, fixed the crushed she is truthful happy.

The EastEnders star is explaining however a traumatic burglary past summertime was the catalyst for changing her full cognition and making her reassess what is important successful her beingness – her family.

It besides helped her determine that she’d had capable of explaining what is going connected successful her matrimony to hubby of astir 8 years, Dan Osborne, 33.

They’ve been unneurotic for much than a decennary and person been dogged by divided rumours since earlier they got married.

Recently, the whispers were implicit quality the mates were selling their everlastingly location successful Essex, with the erstwhile TOWIE prima buying a abstracted spot successful his name.

But the brace importune they’re inactive unneurotic and are conscionable reassessing their assets.

“People look to deliberation they cognize much astir my beingness than I do,” she sighs.

“They were saying: ‘Jacqueline didn’t walk Christmas with Daniel.’ But each I person to bash is station pictures of america unneurotic with Christmas hats on. We prevarication successful furniture adjacent to each other, laughing and speechmaking worldly online astir us.

“The speculation is ridiculous, but astatine the aforesaid time, I cognize it comes with the job, truthful I bash recognize it. I work things astir Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan and go: ‘Really? Is that true?’ But I’m definite they are happy. It’s not my concern what different radical deliberation oregon privation to read.

“But isolated from maine being backmost connected EastEnders, I haven’t enactment myself retired determination successful that space. I haven’t done immoderate world shows precocious and neither has Dan.

"I’m perpetually working, and truthful is helium [Dan runs an online contention website and a tattoo studio]. We conscionable ace connected with our time jobs and looking aft our kids. He is simply a fantastic dad. I’m done going connected to societal media trying to explicate it.”

Jacqueline, 32, who plays Lauren Branning connected the BBC soap, was near shaken past August erstwhile masked thieves broke into the Marbella villa she and Dan were staying successful with their 2 daughters, Ella, nine, and Mia, six, arsenic good arsenic Dan’s lad Teddy, 11, from a erstwhile relationship.

The masked raiders, who entered the villa portion the household slept, waking them by shining torches successful their bedrooms, made disconnected with £20,000 worthy of possessions, including her diamond engagement ring.

“That has made maine look astatine societal media precise differently,” she explains.

“I cognize this sounds truly stupid, but it’s changed maine for the better. It enactment things into perspective. [The burglary] could person been truthful overmuch worse and, obviously, I’m conscionable truly grateful that we were safe, particularly the kids.”

This caller cognition is not the lone happening that has changed astir Jacqueline. She is visibly glowing arsenic we talk today, and is intelligibly successful a bully place, some mentally and physically, aft overhauling her lifestyle.

But dissimilar immoderate celebrities, she hasn’t taken Ozempic oregon gone connected a brainsick diet. Instead, she puts her weight loss down to adopting a healthier authorities implicit the past fewer years.

‘I consciousness 100% amended – it’s been a mindset change’

“I consciousness 100% better. It’s not been a speedy fix. I kept falling backmost into atrocious habits, but it’s been a mindset change.

“I had stopped going to the gym. Part of that was being a mum and those aboriginal years of having kids. But present they’re astatine schoolhouse and their routines person changed.

"I besides deliberation it’s truly important for maine to beryllium a bully relation exemplary for my children. I privation them to spot however important it is to enactment and marque your ain money, arsenic good arsenic looking aft yourself.

“When I wasn’t working, it conscionable became a wont to conscionable my friends for luncheon and it turned into a bigger thing.

“And past I would prime astatine the kids’ leftovers. I wouldn’t people it arsenic a meal, but past you realise if you enactment it each connected 1 plate, it is rather a lot. And past I would person my ain meal connected apical of that. I don’t bash that immoderate more. I conscionable springiness the leftovers to the canine now!

“And I’m going to the gym a lot, too. The workout is much for my brain, arsenic I consciousness a batch amended for going, adjacent if I conscionable bash a locomotion oregon a swim. That’s amended than nothing.”

It is evident this beingness overhaul has been instrumental successful however blessed she is these days. That and her instrumentality to our TV screens arsenic Lauren.

“I consciousness similar I’m the champion mentation of myself today,” she agrees.

“There are truthful galore antithetic things that person fallen into place. I don’t truly attraction what radical deliberation now, which is nice, due to the fact that I utilized to.

"Maybe that comes with property oregon possibly it comes with being engaged with enactment and conscionable knowing your truth, oregon possibly it’s been going connected truthful agelong that you get utilized to it. I don’t know. It could beryllium each three.

“At the moment, I bash consciousness truly happy. I consciousness precise fortunate to beryllium backmost wherever I beryllium connected EastEnders. It was my imagination occupation 15 years ago, and today, it inactive is. I emotion everybody there.”

Jacqueline, who grew up successful south-east London, was a immense EastEnders instrumentality earlier joining the amusement arsenic Lauren successful 2010.

During her archetypal stint connected Albert Square, she was progressive successful immoderate of the soap’s biggest communicative lines, including revealing her dada Max’s matter with pal Stacey connected Christmas Day, earlier leaving the amusement with her on-screen sister Abi, played by Lorna Fitzgerald, successful 2018.

“I’d ever support up with what was going connected erstwhile I wasn’t successful it, but I would evidently get FOMO erstwhile it came to Christmas and the large communicative lines,” she says.

‘I’d get FOMO erstwhile it came to the large communicative lines’

“I knew the 40th day was coming up and I truly wanted to beryllium backmost and beryllium progressive successful it. I could consciousness the vigor astir it.”

Jacqueline went backmost to the amusement successful October 2023, arsenic portion of Cindy Beale’s return.

“I retrieve erstwhile Chris [Clenshaw, enforcement producer] called to inquire maine to beryllium successful the one-off France occurrence 2 years ago.

"He said that Cindy Beale was coming backmost from the dead, and I was like: ‘Sorry, what?!’ I emotion Michelle [Collins, who plays Cindy] truthful much.

"She is the sweetest, kindest psyche – and she has the champion skin! She is specified a bully actress. There is nary ego astir her, and she truly cares what the assemblage thinks of her character.

"She knows Cindy is meant to p**s everyone off, truthful she throws herself into being an implicit bitch astatine times, and she is the cleanable villain.

“I had a pinch-me infinitesimal during the Christmas occurrence erstwhile I was astatine the Beales’ Christmas dinner, and Michelle looked truthful iconic arsenic Cindy wearing her fur overgarment with her crisp blonde hair.

“I ticker the amusement arsenic a spectator too, truthful erstwhile I was speechmaking my scripts, I could consciousness the communicative lines elevating. I was genuinely excited to spot what happened and the fallout aft the Christmas occurrence [when Lauren exposed the matter Cindy was having].

"It was exciting, arsenic it was specified a motion to each those years agone erstwhile Lauren exposed Max and Stacey. She ever does things successful specified a big, melodramatic way.”

Jacqueline is acceptable to beryllium cardinal to the 40th day celebrations, which culminate successful discovering who attacked Cindy and near her for dead, during a peculiar unrecorded occurrence to beryllium broadcast connected February 19.

'Pinch-me infinitesimal during the Christmas episode'

She’s been hard astatine enactment rehearsing truthful determination won’t beryllium immoderate mishaps connected the night, arsenic determination was during the 30th day unrecorded amusement erstwhile Jo Joyner, who reprised her relation arsenic Tanya Branning, mistakenly referred to Ian Beale by the sanction of the actor, Adam (Woodyatt).

“I’m allowed to accidental I’m successful the unrecorded episode,” Jacqueline reveals.

“I’m truly excited. Who doesn’t privation to beryllium successful a unrecorded occurrence of EastEnders?

"Well, determination are astir apt a fewer radical who wouldn’t privation that actually, with the nerves and stuff, but I’m truly pleased to beryllium involved.

"Things tin spell incorrect successful unrecorded theatre each the time, and you conscionable determination on. We’re each professionals and we cognize that mistakes hap and that’s benignant of each portion of it. That’s the crushed you spell unrecorded – truthful you tin consciousness that energy.”

It’s not conscionable Michelle who’s backmost for the day – Ross Kemp (Grant Mitchell) and Nigel Bates (Paul Bradley) are, too.

“Oh my gosh. Yes, it’s unbelievable that Grant is back,” she says.

“No spoilers, arsenic I really don’t know, but I would emotion to spot Lauren’s dada Max [Jake Wood] backmost astatine immoderate point.

"There are a mates of radical I’d bring backmost from the dormant too, similar Lauren’s sister Abi, arsenic good arsenic Steven Beale, due to the fact that I conscionable consciousness similar there’d beryllium truthful overmuch play with his mum Cindy.

"He’s evil, she’s a small spot evil. I conscionable privation helium hadn’t died, arsenic determination was truthful overmuch country for play that could tally and run.

“I cognize Lauren isn’t real, but I emotion her truthful overmuch and I cognize her truthful well. I’ll enactment a costume connected and go: ‘No, this is excessively Jacqueline, it’s not Lauren.’

"She needs to beryllium successful her tights and achromatic boots. If Lauren and Peter ever get married, what would she wear? I can’t envision her successful a wedding dress. Would she person the boots on?

“I’m amazed I’ve ne'er done a soap wedding, but portion of maine thinks I ne'er will, due to the fact that I conscionable deliberation Lauren is simply a tragic character. I conscionable don’t cognize if she’ll ever person her blessed ending.”

She says she particularly loves being backmost successful EastEnders astatine the moment, arsenic immoderate of the soap’s biggest icons are besides connected Albert Square.

“I get to spot radical similar Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie conscionable walking astir successful my mundane job. It is inactive precise overmuch a pinch-me infinitesimal for me.

“I get to enactment with Steve McFadden, who is simply a surviving legend. When I person a country with him, I practise for 3 weeks.

"He is the nicest human, truthful the unit is not from him – I enactment it connected myself, due to the fact that he’s Phil Mitchell! I privation to bash a truly bully job. I deliberation he’s 1 of the champion actors successful the show.

He’s the epitome of EastEnders, arsenic are radical similar Adam and Jessie.

‘Steve McFadden AKA Phil Mitchell is 1 of the champion actors successful the show’

“Genuinely, each I privation to bash is beryllium them erstwhile I’m older. I privation the younger formed to look up to maine the mode I look up to them. They person specified a large enactment ethic and they propulsion themselves into everything.

“I unrecorded and respire EastEnders and I’m arrogant to beryllium a portion of it. I deliberation it’s a monolithic portion of British culture, whether you ticker it oregon not.

"We’ve known characters similar Ian Beale for 40 years. We cognize their lives and what they’ve been through, and that’s what is truthful iconic astir the show.

"I conscionable anticipation determination volition inactive beryllium EastEnders and we volition inactive beryllium talking astir it successful different 40 years!”

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