Danniella Westbrook shows off engagement ring amid split

She has endured a tumultuous few weeks, after suffering a miscarriage and splitting from her Spanish fiancé Alan Thomason.

But Danniella Westbrook proved she was being supported by her closest friends during the difficult time as she shared a snap with her pal, actor Tamer Hassan. 

The 43-year-old EastEnders star flashed her diamond engagement ring in the shot, which was taken on September 4 – weeks before her split from 35-year-old ex Alan.

In the snap, Danniella smiles as Layer Cake actor Tamer, 49, wraps an arm around her and plants an affectionate kiss on her head.

It was taken during Tamer arrived in studios to support Danniella’s appearance on ITV’s Lorraine, when she had gushed about then-fiancé Alan.

The pair have been friends for years, with Alan even calling Danniella to lend her words of support when she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in January 2016.

He told her: ‘You’re doing the best job ever, hang in there. Do me a favour; nip the crying face from now on because I’m not having it anymore.’ 

Mystery: She later changed her Twitter profile picture to this snap of her, in which its unclear whether she’s still wearing her engagement ring 

Old friends: The pair have been friends for years, with Alan even calling Danniella to lend her words of support when she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in January 2016

Solace: During the phonecall, he told her: ‘You’re doing the best job ever, hang in there. Do me a favour; nip the crying face from now on because I’m not having it anymore’

Danniella later shared a snap of the pair hugging sweetly, which she captioned: ‘The face behind the phone call.’

The mother-of-two, who is currently in Spain where she first met Alan, gave an insight into her current mindset as she retweeted the quote: ‘You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.’

She also revealed she has been sleeping in the daytime, tweeting: ‘Seriously cold in the uk…. All I’ve done today i hibernate.’

She previously hinted at a split from Alan in a cryptic tweet about ‘hurting’ and ‘walking away’ in late September.

It’s over: She previously hinted at a split from Alan, 35, in a cryptic tweet about ‘hurting’ and ‘walking away’ in late September

Former flames: Tweeting about loss, she wrote: ‘The hotel wasn’t the only thing he destroyed that day. I never knew him at all! Walking away’

Danniella took to Twitter with an emotional and poignant message about loss – much to the devastation of fans.

Seemingly hinting at a break up, Danniella wrote on the site: ‘Hurting from my loss. The hotel wasn’t the only thing he destroyed that day. I never knew him at all! Walking away #EnoughisEnough #Catfish.’ 

Referring to a ‘hotel’, the tweet also seemed to address recent claims Danniella had been billed £800 worth of damages, after trashing a hotel room in Benidorm following an alleged row with her fiancé.

The incident reportedly took place on September 8 – with onlookers claiming they had overheard the actress moaning at a bar about an argument with her ‘bloke’, which had resulted in a trashed room and a 900 euro charge. 

Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine just weeks before, she had also gushed that her Spanish boyfriend Alan was ‘gorgeous’ and the only man who could ‘tame’ her.

Getting away: The mother-of-two is currently recovering in Spain where she first met Alan

Discussing the prospect that she might even have twins, she told Lorraine: ‘I don’t know if I’m having two, because I’m huge!

‘Every time I stand up I think ‘God, I’m huge’. It may well be twins but I don’t have a scan for another four or five weeks. 

It’s been a tumultuous few weeks for Danniella, who later confirmed that she suffered a miscarriage.

She simultaneously revealed that she will never be able to have another baby following the trauma. 

Speaking of the moment she learned that she was losing her baby, she told The Sun: ‘When I went to the doctor they said the [amniotic] sac wasn’t sticking right, my womb wasn’t strong enough. lost a lot of blood, it’s been really painful.’  

Ordeal: It’s been a tumultuous few weeks for Danniella, who later confirmed that she suffered a miscarriage

The embattled TV personality, who in the summer of last year miscarried her then-boyfriend George Arnold’s baby, spoke of how the tragic loss at seven weeks pregnant led to much undue pressure being placed on her relationship with Alan.

She said: ‘I was so looking forward to having baby, I’m 43, he’s 35, I thought ‘there’s no way I’m going to get pregnant again’. And I did and I was really happy about it.’ 

But she remained defiant after being the target of cold-hearted trolls, just seven months after she approached police about online stalkers.

Danniella had the perfect response for tormentors who persistently ‘give her cr*p’, in the same weekend that she confirmed she had lost her unborn third child.

Tragic: She said: ‘I was so looking forward to having baby, I’m 43, he’s 35 [Alan], I thought ‘there’s no way I’m going to get pregnant again’. And I did and I was really happy about it’

‘People who hate on me are making me money,’ she began, in a direct message, according to The Sun. ‘Because you make me work harder, you’re making me get up in the morning and try even harder every single day. 

‘So you can keep hating all you want, I don’t care. I’m me, I’ve made mistakes, everybody in this world has made mistakes but I own mine and I only them publicly.

‘So the day you can walk in my shoes is the day I can give you some respect, until then leave me alone. (sic)’ 

Gutted: ‘When I went to the doctor they said the [amniotic] sac wasn’t sticking right, my womb wasn’t strong enough. lost a lot of blood, it’s been really painful,’ she said while discussing the miscarriage