Jacqueline Jossa opens up about juggling motherwood with her EastEnders return
The soap star and her fiance Dan Osborne are parents to daughter Ella
JACQUELINE Jossa has revealed the key to juggling motherhood with starring on EastEnders is always making it home in time to put her daughter to bed.
The soap star and her fiance Dan Osborne are parents to Ella, 18 months.
Speaking to The Sun Online, Jacqueline said she loves being back on Albert Square since Lauren Branning's dramatic return earlier this year.
She said: "I love being back, I love the show, it feels like home. There have been so many changes but it's home!"
The brunette beauty took home the gong for Sexiest Female at the Inside Soap Awards and said she feels like a "yummy mummy".
Jacqueline stunned in a demure black skater dress and wore her hair in a chic up style.
On juggling being back on the BBC soap and being a mum, Jacqueline says Dan is a great help.
She added: "It's absolutely fine, she's in safe hands with either daddy or nanny, and surprisingly it's worked out really nicely. I come home and I don't miss bed time.
"Ella has come to the set a few times, I think she's going to be an actress..."
Meanwhile, fans were left reeling when her character Lauren returned from New Zealand without Peter Beale and ended up hooking up with his brother Steven instead.
Jacqueline hinted that viewers will soon be filled on what happened between the pair on the other side of the world.
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She revealed: "You're going to find out [what happened to peter] quite soon, a lot of people have been saying, 'Oh peter's gone and now she's going out with his brother, why?' It'll start to unravel and you'll find out...it's interesting.
"Lauren sees herself in Stephen I think but Peter is the good guy so it's going to be fun for the audience to see whether she goes for Mr Good Guy or the one who shot Jane in the womb!"
Jacqueline wasn't the only EastEnders winner at the awards as Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell) won Best Actor and Lacey Turner (Stacey Fowler) won Best Actress.
Elsewhere, Tameka Empson (Kim Fox-Hubbard) took away the gong for Funniest Female and Barbara Windsor's final scenes as Peggy Mitchell win her the prize for Best Exit.
See what everyone wore to the glamorous awards HERE.
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