Matt Cardle was crowned the winner of “The X Factor” in 2010, but he didn’t catch Meghan Markle’s eye until 2015. In fact, he’d just made his musical debut in “Memphis” when the future royal started following him on social media and they struck up a conversation. To hear Cardle tell the story, it was never a full-fledged relationship. “It was so little then and if not nothing now,” the singer told ITV in 2019 (via the Daily Mail). “Yeah, like I say it was nothing, it was absolutely nothing. It’s quite funny how something can be made up from nothing.”
A year later, Cardle elaborated on their flirtation, explaining that it was a brief dalliance before both he and Meghan settled down with their current partners. “It was just a very weird situation — very odd. And I really don’t know how it came about,” he shared with The Sun. “Life’s got a course and I was not on that one. I’ve laughed about it, but it’s amazing thinking back.”
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Once Cardle met his girlfriend Amber Hernaman, he knew she was special and immediately cut ties with Meghan. “He met [Amber] and knew it wasn’t appropriate to keep talking to Meghan, so he ended up ghosting her … He didn’t reply to her last message,” a source dished (via Good To Know).
