After a year in close quarters with her family Denise van Outen has gone to extraordinary lengths to get some peace and quiet.
In fact she has signed up to be locked away on her own as a contestant on Channel 4’s The Celebrity Circle for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign.
But in real life the actress and presenter insists that, on balance, the time she was forced to spend indoors with her brood has been much more enjoyable than she expected.
Denise has been in a romance with Eddie Boxshall for seven years and the pair live together in Essex with her 10-year-old daughter Betsy, who she shares with ex Lee Mead.
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