Danniella Westbrook is an English actress and reality television personality. She played Samantha Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1990?1993, 1995?1996, 1999?2000, 2009?2010 and 2016. Away from EastEnders she has presented various shows, and was also a contestant on the ITV show I'm 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. On 27 February 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.