Denise Van Outen on the moment she discovered her ex cheating
Denise Van Outen has pinpointed the moment she knew her ex-fiancé Eddie Boxshall was cheating on her.
The pair, who appeared several times together on Celebrity Gogglebox, called it a day back in January after a seven-year relationship.
In the Dancing on Ice and The Masked Singer star's new book A Bit of Me: From Basildon to Broadway and Back, she recounts discovering flirty messages to three separate women on Boxshall's iPad.
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"Among photos was a screenshot... of a woman's breasts – and they definitely weren't mine!" she wrote (via The Daily Mail). "Also, there was a flirty text exchange between Eddie and this woman, which, of course, set off alarm bells."
This particular exchange unravelled when she was on holiday in Spain; "Eddie decided not to come to Spain because he didn't feel well. While sympathetic, I was slightly confused about why he couldn't chill with me beside the pool but could still manage to go to the pub."
Van Outen found selfies of Boxshall and a woman in a bar, snapped on a day he'd told her he was in London on business. By scrutinising this person's chest, she came to the conclusion that it wasn't the same one from the earlier photos.
Later, she came across texts suggesting 'phone sex' with a third woman named Tracy, who Van Outen decided to contact directly.
ITV
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"They'd never met in person, but she said the conversations had become sexual in nature reasonably quickly – some of the stuff I found on the phone seemed to support that. To me, sexual chats and continued communication over a long period of time amount to cheating," the TV star revealed.
"It was disrespectful and devastatingly hurtful. I'd thought we had the perfect life. Any relationship has to be built on trust and once that's gone, there's no way forward.
"If I hadn't found those pictures, I'd be planning a wedding right now. Instead, I've simply got to move on."
Van Outen confronted Boxhall about the women, the Mail's piece adds, but he denied doing anything wrong and she then asked him to leave.
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