Inside Tom and Giovanna Fletcher’s romance – devastating split to gift worth millions

It’s fair to say he was in one of the biggest boybands of the early 2000s after his band McFly rose to fame back in 2003.

And Tom Fletcher has only been going from strength to strength since then, and even joined forced with fellow boyband Busted – who helped launch their career – in 2013 to form McBusted.

The musician has gone on to build up a huge fanbase throughout his career, which has seen the group perform at sold out venues up and down the country.

In 2016, the doting dad took a break from the band to put his efforts into raising his young family who went on to support him through his Strictly Come Dancing experience in 2021.

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Now, as the singer-songwriter celebrates his 38th birthday with a bang, Daily Star have taken a deep dive inside his romance with his childhood sweetheart Giovanna Fletcher.

The loved-up couple first met as teenagers when they were both studying at Sylvia Young school for Performing Arts.

The author recalled their first meeting to MailOnline where he admitted how he fell head over heels for her when they first met.

He told the outlet: “I literally asked Giovanna to be my girlfriend the day I met her when she walked into assembly when we were 13, literally straight away.

“Her surname is Falcone and so when the new kids walked in, she walked over to me as obviously my surname begins with an F and she was sitting next to me at assembly and I asked her out that day. I knew then…”

But what many fans may not know is that the couple split for a couple of years between the ages of 15 to 18 but that didn’t stop their friendship from growing.

Giovanna previous told Fabulous magazine: “I had a boyfriend for the 14 months we weren’t together but Tom was always there. We never left each other alone, really.”

But the one thing that convinced the brunette beauty to go back to Tom was when he rote her a love letter to woo her back.

He added to the Mail: “I found out the address of her new flat, sent her a letter before she moved in so I knew it would be there when she arrived, trying to get her to be my girlfriend again.”

From that moment on, the pair have been by each other’s side through thick and thin continually supporting each other throughout their respective showbiz careers.

Tom previously gushed: “I couldn’t imagine doing it without her. It’s really difficult managing a relationship going through all that, but if two people really want to be together and make it work, you find a way and we did.”

During the early years of his band’s success, he wrote a number one hit single It’s All About You as a Valentine’s gift for her.

She told listeners on her podcast: “It was coming up to Valentine’s Day, Tom hadn’t got me a Valentine’s present so he got into the studio and just literally wrote it super quickly.

“He said it’s just one of those songs that just came out and recorded a version that’s just him, really beautiful and then gave me the disc for Valentine’s Day.

“Then Comic Relief got in touch and said, ‘We want you to do the song and lead the campaign this year, do you have anything that’s appropriate?’

“And Tom was like, ‘If my girlfriend won’t mind, I’ve written this song and it could work.’ They wanted a song that was a bit more personal.”

The song went on to become a huge hit with fans all over the country falling in love with the record, which went on to sell over half a million records, making millions for charity.

In 2011, the couple took things to the next level when the singer got down on one knee and popped the question in the same school assembly hall where they first met.

On their wedding day, Tom decided to keep the tradition going when he wrote and dedicated a 14-minute song to his new bride which left not a single dry eye in the house.

And the happy couple could be set to do it all over again after promising to renew their vows with a ceremony on their ten-year wedding anniversary.

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Tom told the Daily Mail: “Vernon Kay has put me in it with renewing vows, I don’t think I could compete with his story so I’ll need to start planning now.

“We’ve been married around eight years now, so maybe about the ten-year mark.”

The two love birds have since gone on to welcome three sons: eight-year-old Buzz, six-year-old Buddy and their youngest Max, four.

When asked to divulge their secret to a happy marriage, Giovanna said: “We can be having an argument about something ridiculous and he just makes me crack up. That’s why we’ve been together for so long.”

Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk