EastEnders’ Tamzin Outhwaite tries to fly under the radar in hat and shades as she ‘struggles to flog T-shirts and posters of herself at car boot sale’

Tamzin Outhwaite has been spotted trying to sell a number of T-shirts and posters of herself at a car boot sale in Chigwell, Essex.

The former EastEnders star, 53, tried to remain incognito as she flogged her personal belongings and hid her face under a baseball cap and dark sunglasses.

In video obtained by The sunthe actress could be seen being helped sell her wares by her boyfriend Tom Child, 33.

Tamzin sorted clothes rails for bargain hunters to purchase, but according to a fellow seller, she struggled to find interested buyers.

They said she had tried to sell posters depicting herself, and that her attempt at nondescript dressing had had the opposite effect.

The seller told the publication: ‘It was funny because she was selling strange looking things including posters of herself. She had quite a few. They showed her dressed as Superwoman or something like that.

“She had a lot of T-shirts, but people just weren’t interested. She had a big old industrial lamp and lots of wind instruments too.”

They added: ‘I don’t think their sale was a great success, but they seemed to have a nice day. She looked like she was trying not to be recognized. But word got around about who she was and everyone was gossiping.

‘I liked her on EastEnders but she was very dressed up – not as glamorous as Mel in the show; It made it more obvious that you were wearing a hat and glasses. To be honest, she stood out more.”

It’s not the first time Tamzin has sold her things and she previously revealed she ‘loves a car boot sale’.

In 2020, she revealed that she had started selling her unwanted belongings after acting work dried up during the coronavirus pandemic.

She revealed that she has set up an online business where she sells clothes and home goods that she has made or no longer needs to pay her mortgage.

Tamzin insisted that she is not ‘snobby’ and does not worry about how she makes money, and that she is always looking for innovative ways to make money.

Speaking on the Irregular B*tches podcast, she said: ‘I’m in a situation right now where I’m starting to sell things.

‘I’m about to set up a website for things I’ve made or bought that I no longer need. Household items, clothes.

“I just think this is probably how I’m going to pay my mortgage and be able to survive for a while until our industry comes back.”

‘I’m not snobbish or proud of what I do. I love a car boot sale, but everything is online. I think of ways of: ‘How do I do that now?’ I’m not proud. “Oh god, influencers make money, how do you do that?”

‘I’m trying to think of ways I might be able to do that. I’m in a decent situation. I can put my career on hold for a while and then we’ll still eat.’

Tamzin rose to fame in 1998 playing fan-favourite character Mel Healy in EastEnders, until her departure in 2002.

She then returned to the BBC soap in January 2018, before ultimately being killed off during a dramatic high-speed chase with Sharon Watts in November 2019.

Tamzin’s other major roles included Sgt. Jo McDonagh in Red Cap and DCI Sasha Miller in New Tricks.

She has been in a relationship with Tom, who is 20 years her junior, for six years after they met at a yoga class in 2017.

He now lives with the star and her two daughters, as she previously described him as ‘the best’ stepdad.

Tamzin shares daughters Florence, 15, and Marnie, 11, with ex-husband Tom Ellis, to whom she was married from 2006 to 2014.

The marriage is said to have ended in 2013 after the Lucifer star, 45, confessed to an affair with actress Emilie de Ravin while they worked together on Once Upon A Time in 2013.

In July last year, Tamzin claimed that the actor had “walked out” on her and their children and that she was still discovering “more infidelity and lies he was committing” in a quickly deleted tweet.

She wrote: ‘Ten years since the father of my children left us for the last time. I still meet new people at jobs who reveal more infidelities and lies he has committed. But luckily my heart and soul are clear and clean and I couldn’t be happier right now.”