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Jacqueline Jossa closes company Pooker Bash after paying off debts of £51k

Jacqueline Jossa has closed down her company Pooker Bash Ltd after paying off £51k debt.

The former EastEnders star's firm was investigated by liquidators last year after owing £32k to HMRC and a further £11k to other creditors.

The actress, 29, originally set the company up to handle her earnings from the BBC 1 soap, the Mirror reports.

But when the money dried up after she left her role as Lauren Branning in 2018, she entered it into voluntary liquidation.

Liquidator Henry Lan has now completed its probe and closed Pooker Bash after the 2019 I'm a Celeb winner paid a total of £51,523 towards its debts.

In a final report the firm the liquidator said he had 'agreed claims totally £45,317 from two creditors'.

It read: "Unsecured creditors were paid a dividend of 55 pence in the £1, totally £24,923 on 12 April 2022."

Speaking on podcast 'The Sam and Billie Show' earlier this year Jacqueline revealed that she had to sell her previous house due to mounting bills after she quit Albert Square.

She told the TOWIE sisters: "I was on EastEnders for eight years where you got a set pay cheque every week. It was a set pay cheque and I didn’t have to do anything else. It was my comfort blanket, it was what I knew. Then it just wasn't.

"There’s no such thing for me as maternity pay, so when I had kids I had to leave and I had to do magazine covers to make money to feed my kids.

"There’s been times where I haven’t had money. Before I went in the jungle I was struggling with money. I had to sell my house."

The star's financial woes appear to be well and truly behind her if her home is anything to go by.

Jacqueline lives with husband and former TOWIE star Dan Osborne and their two daughters, Ella, seven and Mia, four, in a six-bedroom £1 million Essex mansion - complete with its own bar and cinema room.

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