Danniella Westbrook tries on bridal gowns ahead of big day with jailbird boyfriend

She announced last year that she was waiting for her imprisoned fiancé David to be released from prison so he could propose in style.

Yet Danniella Westbrook was already in full wedding planning ahead of his release later this year when she was spotted trying on wedding dresses in Turkey on Saturday.

The EastEnders star, 49, was a blushing bride as she slipped into a princess gown with an embellished bodice and voluminous tulle skirt.

She added to the glamorous ensemble a floor-length veil held in place with a shimmering silver tiara.

Danniella looked cheerful during the fitting, despite still recovering from a “nightmare” facial reconstruction surgery.

Last year, Danniella spoke about her marriage plans to David, who is 20 years her junior at age 28.

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.

“He asked me to marry him, but I told him to wait until he gets home. He asks me all the time, he even asked me in jail. He didn’t get down on one knee or anything, but he said, “We’re getting married, you know.”‘

According to The Sun, David is in prison for counterfeit goods and has been involved in several physical altercations, but will be released in September, just before her 50th birthday.

The pair previously had a “tumultuous” relationship after meeting in Spain five years ago.

But despite their ‘up-and-down’ romance, Danniella explained to The Daily Star: ‘We just kept in touch and he went to prison in early 2019 and got 9 years and 9 months. But next year he will be home, he still has 11 months to go.’

It could be third time lucky for the former Celebrity Big Brother housemate, who has been married twice before.

Her first marriage was to bus driver Ben Morgan in 1998, but they divorced nine months later.

In 2001, the star married businessman Kevin Jenkins, almost four months after the birth of their daughter Jodie. They divorced in 2020.

With less than a year before David is a free man, the actress is already planning some daring affairs for both of them.

After revealing that they’d already slept together in Spain, Danniella confessed, “There’s nothing going on right now, though. there because all the screws will see it first.

“But there will be many sleepless nights on my beautiful new bed once it’s gone.”

For now, Danniella is also focusing on her appearance after her nightmare surgery at a clinic in Turkey that she had in a desperate attempt to save her collapsing face.

The actress – whose wounds have been sutured with non-dissolvable fishing thread – previously described the gruesome procedure when she revealed she is “going back” to her original doctor in the UK for corrective surgery.

She claimed that the painful operation she had waited years for was performed without anesthesia.

Danniella claimed that the surgeon even slapped her during the operation, and that her phone was confiscated by an assistant when she begged him to stop.

She said, “He went to me, “Stop crying, stop crying.” I said, “I’m in a lot of pain. Please, please. I’m scared. I’m in a lot of pain. I didn’t know this was going to happen.” It was really frightening’.

She then began to panic and kept telling the doctor that she was in severe pain, but she said he told her, “Stop f*****g moving, I’m telling you, stop moving.”

Despite undergoing another procedure in Turkey to save her collapsed face, Danniella has since admitted that she hates her new look.

Danniella had a thread lift, liposuction in her cheeks and lips, fat grafting on her chin and her jawline etched after her septum collapsed from excessive drug use in 2002.

On Instagram, the actress shared a photo of herself taken before surgery and said she couldn’t believe what was done to her.

She wrote, “Three months ago I looked like this and thought I looked awful. I’d give my world to look like this again…

“I can’t believe what was done to me by this operation.”

When Danniella first woke up after the lengthy procedure, she said she looked “like she’d done 10 rounds with Tyson Fury.”

She wanted the reconstruction for the past seven years, but couldn’t find a surgeon who would operate because her septum had completely collapsed.

The actress’s struggles with drugs have been widely publicized and her nose was famously reconstructed after her septum collapsed from excessive cocaine use in 2002.

At the height of her use, she reportedly used up to five grams of cocaine a day, wasting nearly £250,000 on the drug.