On-Screen Partnership' alongside Sid Owen at the British Soap Awards Personal life Palmer is close friends with Sid Owen (Ricky Butcher) and Danniella Westbrook (Sam Mitchell). Palmer has been married twice and has four children: Charley (born 1992) (from Palmer's relationship with boxer Alfie Rothwell), Fenton (born 2000), Emilia (born 2001), and Bertie (born 2010). For 10 years, starting in 2004, she lived with her husband and children in Western Terrace and then Kemptown, Brighton, England. Her brother, Harry Harris, is married to Lindsey Coulson, the actress who played her on-screen mother Carol Jackson in EastEnders. In April 2014, Palmer and most of her family moved to Malibu, California, near Los Angeles. Since then she made friends with the likes of Camille Grammer and Cindy Crawford while settling down. Palmer has said that she has been a drug- and alcohol-addict, and that during her 1990s stint on EastEnders'' she frequently turned up on set either high or hungover. She has said that she started experimenting with alcohol and drugs from the age of 10 and her addiction lasted for 24 years. In 2010, she stated that she had been clean of drugs and alcohol since September 2004 and that "We don't have drink in our house". Palmer suffered from bullying during her school years. Because of this she lent her support to the Department for Education's anti-bullying campaign in 2000. She is an active patron of Children's Cancer Charity CLIC Sargent. Palmer's late father, Albert Harris, was Irish. See also List of Strictly Come Dancing contestants References External links 1972 births Living people English people of Irish descent English stage actresses English soap opera actresses English television actresses English radio actresses People from Bethnal Green Actresses from London Alumni of the Anna Scher Theatre School English DJs Women DJs 21st-century English women musicians