Danniella Westbrook has finally broken her silence on her jailbird boyfriend weeks after she was wrongly linked to the father of a Towie star.
The 48-year-old former soap star furiously hit out at reports at the beginning of March that insinuated she had been on a date with a businessman named Terry Andrews – who is the father of Towie’s Grace Andrews.
She then stunned fans and social media followers when she declared that she was not romantically involved with Terry – and is instead dating a man who is “in jail”.
Now Daniella has opened up about her secret boyfriend – who she says she is already engaged to – who is called David, is 28-years-old and hails from Liverpool.
Danniella and David have been forced to keep their romance at arms length as he is behind bars – with the ex-EastEnders star claiming her lover was sent to the slammer for dealing in counterfeit goods and for getting into a brawl.
Opening up about her romance with the jailbird, Danniella explained how they met and how they have been keeping in touch while he’s behind bars.
She told the Daily Star: “I’ve known him for years. I met him in 2017 out in Spain and when we were both living out there and we got together out there and it was a tumultuous relationship it was on off all the time.
"But we just stayed in touch and he went to jail early 2019 and he got 9 years 9 months. He's home next year though, he's got 11 months to go."
The countdown is therefore on for the day Danniella and David will be reunited – and she has some very saucy plans for him.
Revealing that they already slept together when they both lived in Spain, Danniella said she has not teased David with any intimate language or offered any extra special visits – but this will all change when he’s released.
She said: "There's nothing like that going on now though, they listen in to all your phone calls and screen the emails and photocopy all of the letters so we can't risk anything rude on there as all the screws will see it first.
"But there will be many sleepless nights on my gorgeous new bed once he's out."
Elsewhere in her interview, Danniella says David proposed to her – but is waiting for him to be released from jail to officially accept the proposal, but says they have agreed they will get married and he has promised her a big ring once he is released.
The star even teased that they will tie-the-knot once he is released next year and they have already planned a wedding in the Maldives.
Discussing their 20-year age gap, Danniella has compared herself and David to the late Barbara Windsor and her widower husband Scott Mitchell.
Barbara and Scott, 59, married in 2000 and remained married until the actress passed away in 2020 at the age of 83 and following a battle against Alzheimers.
The couple’s marriage was regarded as one of the strongest in the British celebrity circuit – despite a 27-year age gap between the two.
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