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EVICTED Dale Howard pledged eternal love for ex-housemate Jen after their TV reunion — then sneaked off to a hotel with his real girlfriend.

He spent several hours locked away with soulmate Aimee Williams, who finally emerged in the early hours.


However, when Dale had earlier been reunited with Jen on the post- eviction show he did not know she had been driven there by her violent husband Dave Clark.


In the house she spoke of how they had split up. But last week the News of the World told how Jen had a secret 12-hour tryst with Dave, the father of her two-year-old daughter who has beaten her in the past.


Now, despite being back with their partners, Dale, 21, and Jen, 22, are set to embark on a “sham” relationship to clinch a £100,000 magazine deal. In his first newspaper interview since getting the boot, Dale told the News of the World: “I hope Jen will be in my life forever.


“I did honestly think that things were going well with me and Jen.


“I couldn’t just sail through the show and not get emotionally involved. Jen was such a massive part of the experience I felt that her going removed a massive part of my personality.


“After she went I felt there was nobody to talk to about important things. I didn’t blossom. I felt part of my experience was cut off.”


And despite being told of Jen’s night of lust with her husband, Dale insisted: “My feelings for her haven’t changed from when she left to seeing her after I left.”

Frustrated
When asked what those feelings were, he replied: “I can’t describe the feelings for her because I’m not really that articulate.”


Before he went into the house Dale boasted: “If there’s any f**ny, I’m going to nail it.”


But last night he said: “I spent no time in the house thinking about how many women I could nail when I got out because there was only one that I was interested in.


“I wasn’t really sexually frustrated. Even when Jen was there I would never have tried anything like that because I had far too much respect for her.”


Remarkably, the dim gym fan even suggested Jen got back with Dave to take her mind off him. Dale said: “I can imagine that when you’re outside it’s easier to have things to take your mind off the house and people in the house.”


And he admitted that when he was in the house after Jen’s eviction he suspected she was up to no good. Dale explained: “Obviously you don’t know what’s going on in the outside world when you’re in the house so obviously it does cross your mind from time to time. I did wonder what she was doing.


“We’re going to have to talk things through about that. It’s a question of sitting down and talking. We have a lot to speak about, it’s been five weeks.


“We spoke about him in the house but she never really spoke about how she felt about him. She never said she was over him to me.” And he also brushed off Jen’s blatant attempts in the house to snare Stuart.


Dale said: “Stu and Jen were both single parents so there was stuff about that I just couldn’t get involved in.


“But it was never a rivalry issue. I told her how I felt. I don’t think she was playing me with Stuart.”


A senior Big Brother source confirmed: “Dale had no idea what Jen had been up to with her husband when Davina brought her out on to the stage.


“Afterwards he was whisked off for psychological briefing. It was then that he was told about the News of the World story about Jen getting back with Dave. He was obviously shocked but decided to continue the sham of wanting to be with Jen because he knew it could make them both a lot of money.”


He then left the Big Brother studio in Borehamwood, Herts, to see Aimee, 21, who was waiting for him at the nearby Corus Hotel.


Aimee has always maintained the pair, who met three years ago at university, remain “completely and utterly in love”.


The source continued: “Dale and Jen are both obsessed with fame and making money out of Big Brother so if that means faking a relationship for a few months like Ziggy and Chanelle last year they’ll do that.


“There’s no way in the long run Dale is going to move to live with Jen and look after her one-year-old daughter. He wants to be young and free, Aimee always let him be like that.”


Dale had few words to say about Aimee. He would only say: “She gave me the teddy bear in the house. I was friends with her for two years before we decided to get together. And we never ended on bad terms.”

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