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Celebrity love sham: Cerys and Marc are too busy cashing in to rekindle their romance

She said it hit her like a thunderbolt. He said he hoped they could have children together.

But for a lovestruck pair, Cerys Matthews and Marc Bannerman seem strangely reluctant to rush back into each other's arms.

The singer and actor, who met while competing on I'm a Celebrity...Get me Out of Here! in Australia, have not managed to meet up after emerging from the jungle.

The competition finished on Friday night, when pantomime star Christopher Biggins was named the winner.

Yesterday, the on-screen romance between Miss Matthews and Bannerman was being denounced as a publicity-seeking ploy.

They are thought to have raked in more than £100,000 from interviews in which each has declared their love.

And they stand to match that sum with magazine and TV interviews when they appear together as a couple.

Yet Bannerman, 34, apparently turned down a free flight Down Under to reunite with Miss Matthews when she was voted off on Thursday.

He has been lying low in London after splitting from his girlfriend Sarah Matravers.

And Miss Matthews, 38, stayed on in Australia to lap up the post-show hospitality and will not fly back until tomorrow.

She has already made at least £50,000 from spilling the beans about their time together.

Posing in skimpy underwear for a downmarket tabloid, she declared: "We had a loaded kiss, most definitely. That was the thunderbolt moment."

Former EastEnders actor Bannerman has said in an interview: "I hope we can have children together. I don't know what love at first sight is but I had the most intense feeling."

A show insider said the pair have shared "lots of phone calls" and that Bannerman left a note for Miss Matthews in which he said he had "fallen hook, line and sinker for her".

But yesterday viewers began airing their suspicions about the relationship.

One wrote on a website: "Maybe their careers are flagging and needed a kickstart."

Another said: "If this was true love he would have been waiting for her at the hotel. I think this speaks volumes."

Source: Daily Mail