Danniella Westbrook surprised her fans on Instagram on Wednesday when she revealed that she has a very famous former flame.
The former EastEnders actress, 49, shared a souvenir photo of herself with her ex with her 116,000 followers.
Danniella, who is engaged, revealed that none other than singer Robbie Williams was spotted gazing at her while sitting in a car.
She wrote: ‘He was the best friend I ever had the way he used to look at me like that.’ Lucky me.’
However, the TV personality explained that he’s not really a boyfriend as the couple only kissed once.
‘He was the best friend I ever had’: Fiancee Danniella Westbrook surprised fans as she revealed her VERY famous former flame – Robbie Williams – with a sweet throwback
Wow! The former EastEnders actress, 49, shared the throwback to her ex with her 116,000 followers
Speaking to The Sunday Mirror, Danniella laughed at rumors the couple were serious.
She said: “We were just snogging.” I think if we had slept together I might have remembered that because Robbie Williams isn’t the kind of friend that’s likely to be forgotten, is he?”
At the time, Danniella was at the peak of her career, before her cocaine addiction, and said she and the former Take That star “moved in the same circles.”
She added, “At that time we were both kids and young, free and single.” We moved in the same circle and bumped into each other often.
“And yes, one night we were drunk making out. But that’s it – nothing else happened.’
Danniella is now engaged to her jail lover, David.
She has insisted she will wait until David is released to tie the knot, but they have discussed the prospect of a wedding in the Maldives as early as next year.
She said: “I have a big ring that was made for me and I wore it in prison and David said, ‘It was beautiful but it’s not big enough,’ so a bigger one is coming.”
Candid: It comes after Danniella admitted she’s not happy with her looks after undergoing reconstruction surgery in Turkey to save her collapsing face
“He asked me to marry him, but I told him to wait until he came home.” He asks me all the time, he even asked me in prison. He didn’t get on his knees or anything, but he says, “We’re getting married, you know.”
David, 28, from Liverpool is 20 years her junior and the two previously had a ‘tempestuous’ relationship, having met in Spain five years ago.
But despite their up-and-down romance, Danniella told The Daily Star, “We just kept in touch and he went to jail in early 2019 and got 9 years and 9 months.” He’s home next year though, he still has 11 months time.”
It could be lucky for the third time for the former Celebrity Big Brother roommate, who has been married twice before.
Her first marriage was to van driver Ben Morgan in 1998, but they divorced nine months later.
In 2001, the star married businessman Kevin Jenkins, nearly four months after their daughter Jodie was born. They divorced in 2020.
This comes as Danniella hit the beach earlier this week while recovering from facial reconstruction surgery in Portugal.
She admitted she wasn’t happy with her looks after undergoing reconstruction surgery in Turkey to save her collapsing face.
Danniella had a thread lift, liposuction on her cheeks and lips, a fat graft on her chin and an etching of her jaw after her septum collapsed due to excessive drug use in 2002.
Taking to Instagram, the actress shared a photo of herself taken before the surgery and said she couldn’t believe what had been done to her.
She wrote, “Three months ago I looked like this and I thought I looked awful.” I would make my world look like this again…
“I can’t believe what this surgery has done to me.”
Since her procedure, Danniella has had thick bandages around her head and nose, but took them off earlier this month.
The TV personality was left devastated after being hospitalized again hours after landing in Portugal due to a health crisis.
In her Instagram stories, she wrote: “Only I was able to land back in Portugal after the operation and ended up in the hospital.”
“The pain I’ve experienced is unreal, the scariest days. ‘Need it literally like a hole in the head.’
When Danniella first woke up after the lengthy procedure, she said she looked “like she’d done ten rounds with Tyson Fury”.
She had wanted to do the reconstruction for seven years but couldn’t find a surgeon who could operate because her nasal septum had collapsed completely.
Danniella says she paid for the surgery herself, despite the fact that clinics around the world offered freebies after she was in intensive care last year due to a health crisis because she had trouble breathing through her nose.
While in recovery, Danniella will simply have to limit herself to ibuprofen and acetaminophen as any stronger painkiller could be a trigger for her past cocaine addiction.