Cheryl Fergison has issued a gushing tribute to her happy family life.
The soap star is renowned for her role as Heather Trott in EastEnders. She portrayed the beloved character from 2007 - 2012, before she briefly returned to Albert Square for a voice-over appearance in 2016.
Heather was introduced to the soap as Shirley Carter's best friend - and the character loved nothing more than cheese, karaoke and George Michael. Viewers watched her develop through iconic storylines such as her marriage to Minty Peterson and surprise pregnancy after she had a baby with Darren Miller.
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The baby was named after her favourite musician and Heather's stint in Walford mainly showed her battling financial struggles to raise her son. Her stint in Walford came to an end after she was brutally murdered by Ben Mitchell in 2012 - and the character was referenced four years later when Dot Cotton discovered a mixtape of Heather and Shirley's Christmas songs.
The 57-year-old's life away from the screen is fortunately less dramatic as she is happily married to husband Yassine el Jamouni. Cheryl also has a son named Alex from a previous relationship.
She has taken to social media to issue a tribute to her family. She said: "My husband Yassine, My son Alex. My world."
Fans flooded the comments to praise the "beautiful photos". Cheryl previously revealed how she met Yassine during an appearance on Loose Women in 2017.
She said: "We met online and wrote to one another on the computer and spoke on the phone. It was very old-fashioned. He didn't know what I did for a living. I didn't show him my picture.
"It was five months of chat before we met each other. I saw him and it was like 'ping'. I knew he was the man I was going to marry and I had been married once before.'"
Yassine hails from Morocco and is 21 years younger than Cheryl, but she didn't have any concern about the age gap. She added: "Age doesn't matter - no one blinks when a man does it. Thank goodness we're not all the same. I think do whatever you are comfortable with."
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