Vanessa Feltz’s ex-fiancé Ben Ofoedu has spoken out, with the Phats & Small singer hinting that he wants her back while fiercely denying serial cheat claims.
The TalkTV host, 60, was said to be shocked when she discovered 50-year-old Ben’s “double life” earlier this year.
Back in February The Sun reported that Vanessa had uncovered a “several infidelities”, with her confirming the split to the paper.
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And now Vanessa’s ex Ben has broken his silence on the real reason that the pair split up after the alleged serial cheating claims.
Speaking on GB News today (March 26), Ben chatted to Mark Dolan where he candidly opened up on his relationship with Vanessa and spoke of wanting to “be back in that situation” – referring to the relationship with Vanessa.
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Addressing the split and the reasons behind it, he said: “Vanessa and I parted ways. I mean, I’ve been pretty honest about it, really. All it was, I’d had an affair before which put our relationship on quite dodgy ground, but we’d got over it really and that was like 2015.
“There’s also a case that’s happening with the Metropolitan Police now, linked to a troll. I was sex texting this troll that I did not know was a troll and stuff, it was just sex texting.”
He then addressed the claims of him being a “serial cheater”, with Ben saying: “The whole thing about me having numerous amounts of affairs, and going to holiday camps and sleeping with these different women, and that I’d had several affairs is just not true.”
Adding that it’s “horrible” to ensure, Ben spoke of how he has been getting “trolled” and how it has been “really, really tough”.
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Touching on “the original affair in Ibiza”, Ben spoke of how the woman had to change her name because of the embarrassment she felt.
Adding: “She knows that what even what she said in the papers was a complete lie. She just lied about absolutely everything. But it’s done. It was 2015.”
“It was a 17 year relationship. Vanessa believes, I don’t necessarily believe it, that once the trust is gone, then it’s completely gone. So I mean, once the trust is gone, she couldn’t go on,” he said on the TV channel today.
“It’s just this really, really stupid mistake. I don’t even know, I mean there are different reasons but it was a stupid mistake.
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“I don’t think I’ve been harshly treated by Vanessa, because I brought this to her doorstep and the family that I love so much.”
Then speaking about how he would want to get back with Vanessa, Ben said: “We were in love for 17 years, so yeah I would love to be back in that situation because I love her so much.
“But there are a few things I would like to change, but that would be between me and her to work out but yeah, I would love to be back in that situation.”
His interview on the channel concluded with him saying: “I just want to set the record straight, it’s not several women. I’m not a serial cheater.
“I don’t go to holiday camps and just cheat. That’s not the truth, but I think it kind of made a great narrative that the love rat, the love cheat.”
Vanessa met Ben in 2005, after her divorce five years earlier in 2000 from surgeon Michael Kurer.
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