Jessie Wallace

She was once ridiculed for her weight, but look at her now.

Ex-EastEnder Jessie Wallace, who played Kat Slater, has dropped three dress sizes and weighs just eight stone.

In the cutthroat world of ballroom dancing, someone's got to be a loser.

This weekend that person was Jessie Wallace.

Be scared - be very, very scared.

Jessie Wallace is a-prowling the town...

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The X Factor has been through a lot of drama of late...

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It gets to a Friday, and to be honest, we actively search out amusing, random pics from the world of showbiz.

And if there's an animal involved, all the better.

EastEnders beat rival soap Coronation Street to the continuing drama Bafta for the first time in four years.

It was just one of many awards for the BBC...

EastEnders has capped a spectacular return to form by taking - count them - seven prizes at the British Soap Awards. And that included the most mouth-watering of gongs, Best Soap.

Our Ann is back with another helping of juicy gossip.

Find out about Jessie Wallace's drug confession concerns, Jennifer Aniston's early ambitions and Joan Collins' latest offer.

Jessie Wallace has admitted to a drug-taking past.

The ex-EastEnder, whose Kat Slater character proved a huge hit with viewers, said she was "out of control" when she first joined the soap.

John Nettles extends a juicy offer to a big Hollywood star to appear in... Midsomer Murders.

Rarely seen out in recent months, the Royal Television Society gave Jessie Wallace fans a chance to get a glimpse of her.

Dressed in chic black with a twenties twist, Jess took along her old cast mate, Lacey Turner, as her date so there could be no talk of man scandals..

Jessie Wallace has got a new fella... or wait a minute...

Nana Moon is on her last legs, things with Kat aren't going swimmingly and the imminent Christmas storylines mean we're due a fresh crisis on Albert Square.

So don't be surprised if Alfie Moon decides to end it all.

With winter just around the corner, it's time to get out the thermal undies...

But one celeb has clearly decided that it's still summer and so the fewer clothes the better.

Billie Piper goes up against EastEnders' Jessie Wallace and June Brown, Corrie's Sally Lindsay and Life Begins' Caroline Quentin for most popular actress at the National TV Awards.

Billie's nomination comes for her role as Rose in Doctor Who - her first real foray into acting.

Another one, as they say, bites the dust.

Hot on the heels of Sharon and Dennis, another major character is set to exit Albert Square.

Shane Richie has revealed there's a big twist coming up as the love triangle between Alfie, Kat and Little Mo comes to an explosive end in EastEnders.

"It's an amazing left hooker - you think you know what's happening and then you go, 'Bloody hell!'

EastEnders star Jessie Wallace will quit the soap in an explosive storyline at Christmas.

But bosses - desperate not to lose one of their prized assets - will leave the door open for her to return.

Billie Piper is set to go head-to-head with soap heavyweights such as scheming Tracy Barlow and EastEnders motormouth Kat Slater.

The Doctor Who star has been nominated for a best actress award at the forthcoming National TV Awards, capping a brilliant year for her since she split with Chris Evans.

EastEnders chiefs sent stroppy Jessie Wallace home after she went crazy when she lost her mobile phone.

The 33-year-old actress - Kat Slater in the soap - brought filming to a halt with an astonishing display of tears last week, reports The Sun.

Jessie Wallace says she is delighted to be back in EastEnders as 'tart with a heart' Kat Slater.

The actress has been away after giving birth to daughter Tallulah - but she relishes the chance to play the loudmouth good-time girl again.

Here are the latest pictures of Channel Five reality show The Farm - and they prove the contestants are not afraid to get their hands dirty.

The latest pictures show boy band joker Micky massaging glamour model Emma Noble and licking cream off her leg.

It's pitchforks at dawn - the celebrities have arrived down on the farm.

Ten new stars arrived ready and willing to be transformed into farm hands for the Channel Five show.

EastEnders star Jessie Wallace is said to be furious after ex-fiance Dave Morgan sold secrets of their life together to a Sunday newspaper.

But now Jessie, who plays Kat Moon in the BBC soap, is insisting she will fight him for custody of their six-month daughter Tallulah.

EastEnders star Jessie Wallace has finally split from the father of her baby Tallulah after a series of rows.

Wallace's lawyers issued a statement saying their client was "saddened to announce that her relationship with partner Dave Morgan is at an end".

EastEnders sex siren Jessie Wallace has issued a quit threat, claims The Mirror.

The fed-up star wants to spend more time with her baby - but is also said to be angry at the departure of some of the hit show's stars.

Kat Slater's about to make her grand comeback in EastEnders - but she hasn't quite made it as far as Albert Square yet.

In a dramatic storyline the tart with a heart, played by Jessie Wallace, is found languishing in jail by sister Little Mo.

Tracy-Ann Oberman does a Caprice and are the Miller family for the chop? Jessie Wallace blows her top over the press and Hayley and Roy may be about to adopt young Chesney.

Don't miss out on all the soap gossip... such as why Jessie Wallace has upset the rest of the EastEnders cast.