Jacqueline Jossa breaks her silence on £20k raid at Marbella villa

Jacqueline Jossa has broken her silence on the terrifying raid at her Marbella holiday villa earlier this month. 

Two masked robbers broke into the holiday rental where the EastEnders actress, 31, and her fore TOWIE star husband Dan Osborne, 33, were staying with their children. 

They stole £20,000 of jewellery and belongings, including her engagement ring, as they slept. 

And speaking out after the robbery, Jacqueline has slammed the heartless thieves as she revealed they made off with her five-year-old daughter’s tooth fairy money.

Sharing her anger with The Sun, she said: ‘I get fuming about what they took from the kids – Mia’s little purse. It makes me so sad honestly, more sad than anything else.

‘She lost a tooth, so she had some money in her purse from the tooth fairy. Her bag was all open, and the money had even been taken out of her purse. Bless her.’

The soap star and Dan have chosen not to reveal the truth to their young family and instead replaced the money stolen from Mia. 

She added: ‘Obviously, she doesn’t know we put another €20 back in.’

The couple are reported to have woken up to the thieves rummaging through the Marbella property. While nobody was harmed, sources say Jacqueline and Dan have been left ‘shaken up’ by the encounter. 

A source told the publication of the robbery: ‘Jacqueline and Dan are really shaken. She raised the alarm after seeing a torch and was faced with two men in balaclavas.

‘Both men fled after they saw her. It is terrifying to think what could have happened if the kids had woken and seen the men in their bedroom.’ 

Jacqueline, who plays Lauren Branning in the BBC soap, had been documenting her holiday for her Instagram followers, with the trip seeing them travel with their extended families along with daughters Ella, nine and Mia – along with Dan’s son Teddy, 10.

While she was also seen enjoying a beach day in Marbella with her girls amid their two-week getaway in the sun.

Spanish police are reported to be investigating the raid, while a vehicle belonging to a security firm has been seen outside the villa.

Along with the engagement ring, the thugs are reported to have snatched handbags and wads of cash plucked from their kids’ backpacks. They are said to have kept the robbery from the children to avoid scaring them.

Representatives for Jossa have been contacted for comment. 

A friend told The Sun of the burglary: ‘The villa has good security and Jacqueline and Dan have got CCTV. They think it took about ten minutes for the burglars to break in. It’s possible the men were in the property for 15 minutes. Jacqueline said it was totally silent. It was only when a flash of a torch woke her up did they realise something had happened.’ 

On Tuesday, Jaqueline and Dan looked visibly distressed as they left a Marbella police station after filing a report. 

The couple leaned on each other for support, with Dan wrapping a protective arm around his wife. 

The couple got married in 2017 – shortly before her exit from the soap was confirmed by EastEnders bosses.

She then briefly returned to the show at the end of 2022 for the funeral of Dot Cotton following the death of actress June Brown earlier that year, before making a permanent return in October last year.

The high-profile robbery comes after another BBC star, former Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw, was targeted by robbers who allegedly gassed him and his 81-year-old mother Eileen in their rented Ibiza villa in order to steal from the pair.  

 The DJ was celebrating his 40th birthday with his family when the property was targeted by the gang who have hit a number of villas occupied by wealthy tourists over the last year.

Nick and his mum Eileen were sedated after the gang pumped a sedative gas into the property where the star was sleeping – and waited for it to take effect before they broke in wearing hazmat suits and turned the villa over.

No one is said to have been hurt in the incident, although it is believed some items were stolen in the raid.