EastEnders star Jessie Wallace flashes huge engagement ring on ski trip with carpenter fiance
EASTENDERS favourite Jessie Wallace showed off her enormous diamond ring as she hit the slopes with her fiance.
The actress proudly posed in her ski gear, holding a pair of skis – with the sparkler in full view as she beamed at the camera.
Jessie, 51, who plays Kat Slater in the BBC soap, captioned her photo: “Flying into the week like,” and added a skiing emoji.
The ice on her finger popped against a fresh manicure – which matched her ski accessories.
She wore a figure-hugging pair of black salopettes with a puffa-style jacket in the same colour.
The bride-to-be added a scarf with a diamond pattern in pastel pinks and blues, which matched her thick-framed sunglasses.
She added a black beanie and held a pair of skis and poles.
Her co-star Lorraine Stanley, who plays Karen Taylor in the soap commented on her snap in the mountains.
“Yes Jessie!!” she wrote, adding fire and heart emojis.
“Amazing photo, please don’t break anything,” one fan urged, with a flurry of heart emojis.
“Damn !! Looking so hawt! Might just cause an avalanche,” another chimed.
Jessie and carpenter boyfriend Justin Gallwey, 50, are getting hitched after at least a year together.
She was first spotted wearing an engagement ring as she nipped to a shop near her North London home in February this year.
It came after handyman Justin helped her battle booze demons.
Last summer she was cautioned after allegedly kneeing a cop in the crotch and calling him a “fat c***” on a drunken night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Justin told The Sun on Sunday: “I just want to protect her. Everything is happy and things are good.”
Jessie has had a string of boyfriends over the years but never married.
She was set to get hitched at a £300,000 star-studded ceremony in 2011 to fiance Vincent Morse before it was called off at the last minute.
But she is said to have told pals she is ready to settle down with Justin and marry.
A source said: “Jessie has been proudly wearing the ring.”