It’s been a make-or-break couple of years for many couples trapped in lockdown together, but it looks like it’s been a big ol’ make for Jacqueline Jossaand Dan Osborne. After a tricky few years of splits and cheating allegations, the pair say they’re better than ever – and even planning to renew their vows.
“It does feel like we have a new relationship,” the former EastEnders actress – who is mum to Ella, seven, and Mia, three, and stepmum to Dan’s son, Teddy, eight – admitted in a new interview. “It would be quite nice to celebrate that... we might do something like renew our vows when the time is right. We would like all five of us in the photos–we’d doit for the kids.” And they have COVID’s lockdown rules to thank for the change.
“I know lockdown was tough for so many people, but for us, it was almost perfect timing,” says the 29 year old, who met ex-TOWIE star Dan at an awards ceremony in 2013.
“It was so nice. We had summer nights out in the garden, he’d have a beer, I’d have a bottle of prosecco, and we’d just sit and look up at the stars, eating strawberries dipped in melted chocolate. I felt we reconnected.”
It follows a difficult few years for the couple, who married in 2017. They’ve endured claims that Dan, 30, cheated with Love Island’s Gabby Allen, and later had a threesome with Celebrity Big Brother star Natalie Nunn and Page 3 model Chloe Ayling.
But after briefly moving out of the house they share in Essex and going through therapy – Jacqueline says they’re now doing great.
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“I couldn’t be in the same house as Dan,” she previously admitted. “There was no big argument or bust-up, and there were no other girls. Moving out was how I had to deal with it.
It was like when you wake up after a bad dream about someone, you need some space–that’s what it was like with therapy. It really, really helped.”