A BEACH club owner has spoken about having an affair with Vanessa Feltz’s cheating fiancé Ben Ofoedu.
The woman, 59, said she alerted the This Morning star to what happened in a bombshell email – saying they then spoke on the phone.
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The businesswoman claimed she initially didn’t know Ben had a long-term partner when their romance began and ended things when she found out.
The woman broke her silence after he spoke about their romance, which took place while Ben was performing in Ibiza in 2015, in an interview.
He told the Sunday Mirror: “It was purely sexual, there were no feelings involved. It felt like a chore.”
Ben added: “I cheated because I was insecure. The girl in Ibiza said things like: ‘You’re such a great guy. I don’t know why you’re not married. Who wouldn’t want to marry you?’
“That coupled with alcohol was a recipe for disaster. It was a volatile situation. That’s why that happened.”
The woman he was referring to didn’t wish to use her real name in an interview, but is being referred to as ‘Ella’.
She responded in the Mail, saying: “I have been painted as a trollop, when in fact I have a successful career and I’m a single mum, who’s worked hard all my life.
“As for the sex being a ‘chore’? Up chores, Ben!”
‘Ella’ added: “I had no agenda, I just wanted to tell her, woman to woman, and then it was up to her.
“I would never have gone public about this if Ben hadn’t disrespected me once again, by trying to paint me as some kind of sl*t in the papers last week.”
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After the email – in which ‘Ella’ admitted having been “hopelessly in love” with him – she said she had a “difficult” phone conversation with Vanessa, 60.
She added: “I was terrified sending that email and even more so when Vanessa called me back.
“I completely understood her anger at me and I certainly didn’t respond angrily to her, but it was a very awkward conversation.”
She said the TalkTV presenter deserved to know that she had tried to seduce at least three other younger women.
Vanessa revealed she and Ben, 50, had gone their separate ways earlier this month.
The pair met in 2005, after her 2000 divorce from surgeon Michael Kruer – with whom she shares daughters Allegra, 37, and Saskia, 34.
The agony aunt and broadcaster addressed the split briefly on her popular drivetime TV and radio show.
She said: “It’s now clear that it’s over and I feel that you know once the trust is gone you can’t really get that back.
“I’m pretty disappointed and shocked about those horrible things but also full of resolve because I’m not going to let this defeat me.”
Vanessa recently travelled to Cork in Ireland and shared a picture posing with a snake round her neck.
Making a barely-veiled dig at her ex she wrote: “The only snake I want to deal with!”
Ben said he was sorry after the split: “I just want it out there, me apologising to her for the pain I’ve caused.
“Of course I want to be with her, if she wants me back.”
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