Doctor Who star John Barrowman has opened up about how music superstar Cher tried to stop him going on his first date with now husband Scott Gill.
The TV regular appeared on Loose Women via video link from their Palm Springs home in celebration of Pride week on ITV.
John and Scott have been together for 26 years and married in 2013 as soon as the law allowed it in America.
Recalling how they first met, John said: “I was Sunset Boulevard in London and I had met Scott a year before.
John revealed how Cher crashed his first date with husband Scott
“It was meant to be out first date one night but Cher was hunting me down and wanted to speak to me.
“She had seen me in Sunset and wanted to meet up.
“Cher was like ‘I want to take you out for dinner’ but I was like “‘Fine but I can’t tonight as I have a date’.
Laughing the West End regular continued: “She joked that I, as a gay man, was going to stand up Cher for dinner.
Cher ended up crashing John’s date with Scott in London (Image: Mirrorpix)
“Finally she said bring him along.”
Smirking, Scott added: “So really Cher was playing third wheel to us.
“When we left the restaurant John kissed Cher goodbye and all the photographers took pictures thinking they were together… in reality he went home with me.”
In another bizarre twist, when Scott first saw John he was totally naked.
Scott and John have been together 26 years (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Scott first saw John during a stage show in which the actor had to go full frontal for the first scene.
Later that evening he went to visit him backstage and walked in to the dressing room to see John with his backside out and bent over pulling up his trousers.
“When I saw him I knew he was the one but I didn’t know how to get the date,” John explained.
“It was a year later that the date with Cher happened.”
Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12:30pm
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
