Danniella Westbrook (born 5 November 1973) is an English actress, best known for originally playing Sam Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders on and off from 1990 to 2000 and 2009 to 2016. Away from EastEnders, she has presented various series, and was also a contestant on the ITV contest I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2003. Westbrook 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. On 27 February of that same year, it was confirmed that Westbrook would return to EastEnders, very briefly with on-screen brother Grant (play