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To feel bad for Daniella Westbrook, Katie Price, and the like?

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GarliceGran · 22/12/2025 18:12

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15402379/Danniella-Westbrook-surgery-cocaine-nose-EastEnders.html

Daniella is having yet more surgery. I presume that she’s having it abroad as UK surgeons won’t touch her now. Same with Katie Price and numerous other celebrities.

Ive always had a bit of soft spot for the likes of Daniella. I loved her when she first came onto Eastenders. She was so young when she became famous, and it clearly destroyed her. I imagine that a lot of men made good money out of her and have dropped her like a stone now that she’s the way she is.

Danniella Westbrook on repairing her cocaine-ravaged nose

To this day, former EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook refuses to keep a mirror up in her house, unable to look at the face that was once her fortune.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15402379/Danniella-Westbrook-surgery-cocaine-nose-EastEnders.html

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MissyB1 · 22/12/2025 18:59

BillieWiper · 22/12/2025 18:16

'The likes of Daniella'? I'd say she's pretty standalone and unique in her extreme physical symptoms of cocaine addiction. I've never seen anyone else that looks anywhere near as bad as that.

She just says what she thinks the press want to hear when she needs money. Every interview is about how her next surgery will finally fix her face, and how she's going to try and get back on EastEnders. It's just the same shite she's been spouting for decades now.

Similar in that respect to KP. Just keep selling the same shite stories about yourself over and over again.

She’s not “standalone” in what cocaine has done to her face at all I’m afraid.

Wibblybynature · 22/12/2025 18:59

There are plenty of people who had less chances than them who have made a success of their lives. Both KP and DW have no one but themselves to blame.
I agree that young women were exploited in the 90s, but I believe it is greed that has driven those two to where they are now.

CraftyPlayer · 22/12/2025 18:55

KP is a vile animal abusing, law breaking knob to put it politely.

Gowlett · 22/12/2025 18:54

Danniella was so pretty, such a shame…
Tara Palmer Tomkinson was a sad case, too.
Katie Price. And Kerry Katona. Only Fans now.

I feel sorry for Lauren Goodger from TOWIE.
She was brilliant, but never made money like others.
And what she went through, losing her baby…

There is a horrible underbelly to celebrity.
Whether A-list or Z-list. Dangerous when young.
But so tough, when you’re yesterday’s news.

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GarliceGran · 22/12/2025 18:53

BillieWiper · 22/12/2025 18:16

'The likes of Daniella'? I'd say she's pretty standalone and unique in her extreme physical symptoms of cocaine addiction. I've never seen anyone else that looks anywhere near as bad as that.

She just says what she thinks the press want to hear when she needs money. Every interview is about how her next surgery will finally fix her face, and how she's going to try and get back on EastEnders. It's just the same shite she's been spouting for decades now.

Similar in that respect to KP. Just keep selling the same shite stories about yourself over and over again.

I grew up in a pretty rough area. I know of several adults whose physical appearance has been negatively affected by years of drug abuse like her.

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TheaBrandt1 · 22/12/2025 18:42

No because they are all attention seeking absolute nutters. Most normal people would never have them as friends

hattie43 · 22/12/2025 18:42

They are the architects of their own downfall .

BillieWiper · 22/12/2025 18:39

FOJN · 22/12/2025 18:31

Bit difficult for them to get an office job and if they can't get acting or modelling work what are they supposed to do?

Yes they've made some very bad choices but I suspect they were quite exploited when they were younger and now they're considered over the hill, fucked up and disposable.

As a pp noted there are probably plenty who made lots of money from them.

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Yeah you're not wrong there. But saying they can't do normal jobs is untrue. Daniella regularly worked in pubs over the last couple of decades.

She did one acting job so she's not too snobby to do normal stuff. She's just an addict and has been poisoned by the idea of easy money and attention.

I do have massive sympathy for the way young women were exploited by 'the industry' back in the 90s/00s. There was rife misogyny in the press and they happily encouraged the nervous breakdowns of Amy, Britney and many many others.

FOJN · 22/12/2025 18:31

BillieWiper · 22/12/2025 18:16

'The likes of Daniella'? I'd say she's pretty standalone and unique in her extreme physical symptoms of cocaine addiction. I've never seen anyone else that looks anywhere near as bad as that.

She just says what she thinks the press want to hear when she needs money. Every interview is about how her next surgery will finally fix her face, and how she's going to try and get back on EastEnders. It's just the same shite she's been spouting for decades now.

Similar in that respect to KP. Just keep selling the same shite stories about yourself over and over again.

Bit difficult for them to get an office job and if they can't get acting or modelling work what are they supposed to do?

Yes they've made some very bad choices but I suspect they were quite exploited when they were younger and now they're considered over the hill, fucked up and disposable.

As a pp noted there are probably plenty who made lots of money from them.

NovemberMorn · 22/12/2025 18:18

I do feel sorry for them, they have ruined their own looks and lives, but that doesn't man one can't feel pity for them.
Maybe if they hadn't both found fame at such a young age, their lives would have been different.

BillieWiper · 22/12/2025 18:16

'The likes of Daniella'? I'd say she's pretty standalone and unique in her extreme physical symptoms of cocaine addiction. I've never seen anyone else that looks anywhere near as bad as that.

She just says what she thinks the press want to hear when she needs money. Every interview is about how her next surgery will finally fix her face, and how she's going to try and get back on EastEnders. It's just the same shite she's been spouting for decades now.

Similar in that respect to KP. Just keep selling the same shite stories about yourself over and over again.

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