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Creys & Marc: in their own words
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Creys & Marc: in their own words JUNGLE babe Cerys Matthews last night revealed the devastating magic moment she realised she'd fallen helplessly for I'm A Celebrity hunk Marc Bannerman.
Fans were riveted as singer Cerys and the former EastEnder cuddled up on her bed and gazed at the stars in the Australian night sky.
And when Marc kissed his Welsh beauty goodnight it meant so much more than the simple peck on the cheek viewers saw.
Smitten Cerys admitted: "It was a loaded kiss, most definitely. That was the thunderbolt moment...
"We wanted to do more, but it wasn't the right time or place."
Speaking exclusively to the News of the World about the whirlwind TV romance that captivated all Britain, Cerys, 38, also told how she:
* STRUGGLED to contain her feelings but is now hopelessly in love.
* FELT desperately "horny" when he left camp after managing to control herself for 11 days.
* RIPPED off her microphone so she could tell Marc how she felt before he was kicked off the show.
* SUFFERS guilt over the hurt caused in breaking up his relationship with partner Sarah Matravers.
Cerys confessed she and Marc both realised they'd gone too far that night under the stars—knowing his girlfriend, Footballers' Wives star Sarah, was watching at home.
Cerys said: "Marc was tactile with everyone so we'd hugged right from the beginning. But we overstepped the mark that night. I'd gone to bed but he came and sat on it and said, ‘Aren't the stars beautiful?'
"It was a wonderful experience and felt very romantic. As we lay there we could hear cicadas, crickets and frogs all around us. It was a magical place and I know we both realised we were feeling something special for each other.
"But it WAS crossing the line because he had a girlfriend, and I KNEW he had a girlfriend.
"We both knew it was a romantic moment without saying anything, and we knew we had to try and stop spending so much time together.
"I definitely worried about it. We didn't intend anything to happen. We were friends, but it took us both by surprise.
"Neither of us intended to hurt anybody. It literally came out of the blue—and it was something that we couldn't really stop once we'd spent so much time together.
"We wouldn't have done any more, though. That's why Marc and I get on. We've got similar old-fashioned morals. We didn't do anything physically wrong, but there WAS a mental connection.
"We were drawn to spending time together.
"It was an amazing feeling. We started finishing off each other's sentences. I'd say I liked a song and he'd like the same one. We had the same opinions on things and the same feelings."
And Cerys knew she was right to trust those feelings when she came out of the jungle and exploded with joy as she read an intimate, handwritten note from Marc promising: "Don't forget I am here for you, any time day or night."
She had just enjoyed her first bath in more than two weeks when her brother Richard handed her the touching letter, which Marc had signed off: "Keep smiling little one, xxx."
Soulmate
Then, in an emotional 30-minute phone call, the pair spoke in true privacy for the first time and declared their feelings for one another.
Last night Cerys revealed: "It was a lovely call. Marc told me how bad he felt about Sarah, we both do. I feel guilty because I don't like to cause any hurt. I never wanted that.
"I never went into the jungle looking for love. I can't believe how quickly I fell for someone in such a short space of time.
"But yes, I'm in love with Marc and I think he feels the same. I'd like us to spend the rest of our lives together—I've found a soulmate and because I'm a hopeless romantic I want to be with him for ever.
"We're going to take things slowly but I've a really amazing feeling about us."
From the first moment Cerys met tall, dark stranger Marc she felt a connection. But, speaking from the exclusive Palazzo Versace Hotel on Australia's Gold Coast, the former Catatonia star blushed and admitted: "I didn't instantly think he was hot. I try to take my time because you can't be attracted to someone just by their looks.
"You can appreciate them physically, but that's not necessarily someone who'll be your soulmate.
"Marc said he felt love at first sight for me but it slowly grew on me. I wasn't after love, I was looking for excitement, adventure and challenge." But despite managing to control her physical feelings when Marc was in the camp, Cerys now admits she felt incredibly sexually frustrated after he left. And she revealed how the Cyclone Trial—where contestants donned wetsuits to slide up and down a greasy plastic sheet trying to grab stars—turned her on for the first time in the jungle!
She giggled: "I wish Marc had been there. It was the best pre-sex game you could ever have.
"It gave you such a high and such a buzz. It made me really horny, you were slip-sliding all over the place. It was the horniest I felt out there.
"It may sound old-fashioned but I honestly knew I couldn't go too far with Marc. I want to take the physical side slowly and I wasn't going to do anything silly with eight million people watching."
Before jetting out to Australia Cerys had just divorced from American husband Seth Riddle, 31, and returned from Tennessee to live in Wales with her children Glenys Pearl, aged four, and Johnny Jones, who's two. She said: "In those first few jungle days with Anna, John, Rodney and Marc, it was like returning to olden times with no TV, no mobiles, no computers and old-fashioned values.
"The boys were doing the camp work while Anna and I sat around with hot cups of water we called tea.
"We're strong women who've worked all our lives and it was wonderful to feel looked after. Rodney would be gentlemanly, John would cook and Marc would get the logs.
Warm
"It was completely romantic and magical. There was no alcohol or any other substances. Nothing to distract you. You're in the jungle with beans, rice, a fire and lots of time. You get to see people stripped of family, work, worldly goods.
"We got to know each other very quickly. I realised Marc was kind, generous, warm and loving. Why wouldn't you be attracted to that? He's a hard-working guy, and tall too. I like tall men! It doesn't take long to work people out if you spend that much time with them in such a small place. Your emotions are really out there because you've got nothing to hide behind.
"In a few days Marc and I were spending a lot more time together. We sang together, chatted about places we wanted to go. It was hard not to be attracted because we had more and more in common. But we could never tell each other."
Crucially, Marc had told contestants he had sexy Sarah, 33, waiting for him at home.
Cerys said: "I didn't want to hurt anyone, least of all Sarah. But it was around Day Five when I realised I was falling in love.
"We couldn't talk about it, so we talked with our eyes, we looked for answers in each other's eyes.
"We both knew we were attracted to each other but there was nothing we could do about it."
And as their feelings developed, the pair fought to suppress them— until that night cuddled up under the stars. Camp life was tough in other ways, too. Cerys has dropped two dress sizes and says that she could see Marc's weight dropping alarmingly over their 11 days together. She said: "His dimples were getting bigger and bigger, and cuter and cuter. I kept wanting to touch him, but I couldn't."
But the pair did sneak off together to try to express their emotions away from cameras and microphones, the day before they were filmed stargazing.
Cerys said: "The creek sounds were so magical and we were tired and wanted to have a change of scenery. There didn't seem to be that many cameras down there either.
"We didn't even hold hands, we just wanted to be able to look at each other, to be together, to have some time away from everyone else.
"We just lay down by the creek, talking about our joint love for Vegas, boxing, live shows, cooking, movies and travelling. We had everything in common. Now we both want to listen to Bette Midler together! That was the first time we could talk openly away from the group and we both realised something different was happening between us. We never said anything like, ‘I love you.' It was unspoken.
"We kind of told each other, ‘It's going to be all right whatever happens.'" But after that, the pair realised they had to try to spend time apart, that their feelings were becoming too intense and that Sarah would be watching their every move.
Cosy
Cerys said: "We didn't want anybody to know about our feelings. We didn't realise everyone was on to us immediately, at home AND in the camp."
The News of the World revealed last week how the pair also got cosy when they went up to the medical station—known as the tick hut— together. Cerys laughed: "We went there because Anna needed to go. When she went inside we switched our microphones off for two seconds to tell each other we both felt the same.
"We had a quick hug but that was all—because the big, green-camouflaged security men came along to tell us to put our mics back on."
Next day Marc was evicted. Cerys, whose interview can be seen on video on our website at notw.co.uk, said: "As soon as his name was called out I knew our attraction had been obvious to everyone at home.
"I was completely devastated—for him, his girlfriend, for the hurt caused."
Marc then sent Cerys a letter into camp explaining he had to return to Britain to speak to Sarah but offering to return for her eviction.
But when she got out he wasn't there. Cerys admitted: "I was disappointed but I fully understood.
"To be honest it would have been too much drama. And I wanted to concentrate on my children."
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Source: News of the World
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02-12-2007, 09:23 AM
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