Ex-EastEnder Natalie Cassidy will join the Loose Women panel this week. She will make her debut on Friday having appeared as a guest several times and revealed she “can’t wait” to air her opinions.

Natalie, 28, added: “Ever since Celebrity Big Brother people have been tweeting that they’d love to see me as a Loose Woman and now it’s happening. I can be very opinionated.”

Natalie Cassidy has reunited with her former fiancé Adam Cottrell. The Celebrity Big Brother and EastEnders star called off her engagement to Cottrell last year after he was charged with assaulting her.

He pleaded guilty to the charges, and was sentenced to 120 hours of unpaid work and placed on a restraining order, which was later lifted.

Celebrity Big Brother star Natalie Cassidy has reportedly taken up with her ex-fiance, eight months after he was convicted of assaulting her. The couple, who have a two year old daughter Eliza, split after rows turned to violence.

Adam Cottrell admitted hitting the former EastEnders actoress in June last year and was sentenced to 120 hours of unpaid work and given a restraining order stopping him contacting her. After sessions to deal with his alcohol problems Adam has been spending time with Natalie and Eliza.

Celebrity Big Brother has seen its fifth housemate leave after Natalie Cassidy received the lowest number of votes. The EastEnders actress followed Kirk Norcross out of the reality house in Friday night's double eviction.

Upon hearing the news from host Brian Dowling, Cassidy grinned and clapped her hands excitedly before moving forward to say her goodbyes. The housemates and viewers were surprised by Natalie's eviction as she had been one of the bookies' favourites to win the show.

Big Brother fans could be forgiven for scratching their heads in confusion when a contestant looking decidedly like former host Davina McCall entered the house.

In fact the brunette stepping out of the cold to become the first contestant of 2012 Celebrity Big Brother was Natalie Cassidy with a new Davina-style haircut and a sultry all-black outfit.

Natalie Cassidy thinks 'Celebrity Big Brother' will be a "brilliant way" to start 2012. The former 'EastEnders' actress - who is rumoured to be entering the infamous house tonight (05.01.12) - explained she is looking forward to being able to cultivate friendships with people she would never normally meet in day-to-day life.

She said: "I think it's one of those things that would be a good experience. What a brilliant way to start the year and have three weeks out of normal life. I think I'd make a pretty good housemate!

Natalie Cassidy could be heading for the jungle for the latest series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, according to reports.

The Sun said that the ex-EastEnders star, 28, wants to do the show, but is worried about not seeing her one-year-old daughter Eliza while she is in Australia. A friend was quoted as saying: "Natalie is very keen, but does have some worries about childcare for Eliza, who dotes on her mum.

Ex EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy has asked to return to Albert Square.

The 28-year-old actress - who grew up on-screen playing Sonia Fowler in the BBC soap - has told the Sunday Mirror she thinks of the show as 'home' and is asking to be written back into the soap. Natalie said: "I'd go back to EastEnders in a heartbeat. I see it as my home, I see them as my family.

Natalie Cassidy has told how she still loves her ex-fiance, despite the fact that he assaulted her.

Adam Cottrell, 31, was ordered by a court last month to do 120 hours unpaid work and made subject to a restraining order banning him from contacting the former EastEnders star.

The fiance of former EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy has been ordered to do 120 hours unpaid work for assaulting her.

Adam Cottrell, 31, who had admitted assaulting Natalie, was also made subject to a restraining order banning him from contacting the actress.

Natalie Cassidy's fiance has admitted assaulting her. Adam Cottrell, 31, pleaded guilty to hitting the former EastEnders actress with a slipper and grabbing her by the arms.

In the hearing at East Hertfordshire Magistrates' Court in Hertford, Cottrell also admitted one offence of criminal damage after he smashed a microwave, wine glasses and a candelabra at their home.

Natalie Cassidy has allegedly split from her fiancé and cancelled their £50,000 white wedding planned for later this year after his arrest on assault charges.

She has also booted him out f the £190,000, two-bed flat she shared with him and their seven-month-old daughter Eliza in Brouxbourne, Hertfordshire.

Eastenders star Natalie Cassidy's fiancé punched a hole in a microwave oven hours before his arrest on allegations of assault, her dad claimed last night.

Charles Cassidy spoke out as Adam Cottrell, 31, was charged with two counts of beating the TV actress and two of criminal damage.

Eastenders star Natalie Cassidy was devastated last night after her fiancé was charged with beating her. Adam Cottrell, 31, was arrested after reports of criminal damage and assault at their home.

Cops were called to the address in Broxbourne, Herts, at 5.30pm on Sunday. Later Cottrell, father of Natalie's baby daughter Eliza, was held for questioning.

Natalie Cassidy has revealed her new trim size ten body - nearly four years after dropping to a size eight.

The ex-EastEnders star, who had her baby Eliza in October, has shifted two-and-a-half stone since the end of her pregnancy.

She famously got into a war of words with Denise Van Outen over going back to work after the birth of her daughter - so Natalie Cassidy made something of a point when she took her daughter to work today.

The former Eastenders star, 27, started the feud last August, when, still pregnant, she blasted new mothers like Denise, 36, for going back to work in a magazine column, declaring: 'Having a child should be your job.'

Actress Natalie Cassidy is to return as Sonia Fowler for a New Year EastEnders special.

She reappears to help out when her screen half-sister Bianca goes missing.

Former 'EastEnders' star Natalie Cassidy has continued her war of words with television presenter Denise Van Outen in relation to motherhood.

Cassidy initially said that she felt Denise Van Outen went back to work too soon after the birth of her daughter, with Van Outen responding with a Twitter posting when Cassidy appeared on a television show with her baby recently.

She has criticised Denise Van Outen for going back to work so soon after giving birth to her daughter Betsy.

But Natalie Cassidy will soon be regretting her hastiness after Denise accused her of not only being a hypocrite, but also of using her baby to make money.