Gay toyboy Tom Hopkins insists Denise Welch turned him straight during their four month affair
Denise Welch today faces fresh allegations that she cheated on her husband – this time with a gay toyboy who claims he met her at a wake.
Tom Hopkins, 26, said that the fame Big Brother winner was the ‘first girl’ he had ever been with and that he fell in love during their four-month ‘relationship.’
‘I remember her saying to someone she may have anyone she wanted, but for some reason she had fallen in love with me,’ the theatre producer told The Sun.
A spokesman for Welch today denied the pair had had a relationship, saying ‘We believe these allegations to be false’.
Put them away, love! Denise Welch flashes her chest outside a wine specialist called Corks Out! during her husband’s 60th birthday celebrations yesterday
Mr Hopkins is the second one man in 24 hours to allege he has had an affair with 53-year-old Welch, who’s married to actor Tim Healy.
Party planner Lincoln Townley, 39, told The Sunday Mirror he had seen the actress for eight months.
Mr Hopkins claims he met Welch in a London pub, where the wake was held, before sharing a taxi. Through the journey, he told her he was gay.
He said: ‘She started kissing me and
stuff happened. She was basically semi-naked within the taxi. The taxi
driver just carried on driving.’
The pair drove to a hotel in Mayfair where Mr Hopkins said mother-of-two Denise decided to take her dress off.
Toyboy: Denise reportedly had an affair with party planner Lincoln Townley
In scenes such as her serial flashing on CBB, she then reportedly ran down the road in just her underwear.
‘It was 4am or 5am and dark so no person spotted her,’ Mr Hopkins said.
He then went directly to claim they met for
lunch dates and talked ‘incessantly’ at the phone – despite Welch being married for 23 years.
He showed The Sun a sequence of text messages, including one saying: ‘I’m your fiancée not your wife!! Maybe we rushed things xxxx’.
The affair allegedly happened
in the course of the sixth series of Dancing On Ice last year. Mr Hopkins said he
would stick with Welch in her Holiday Inn hotel room.
She would introduce him as her ally.
Welch was crowned CBB winner on Friday after beating X Factor reject Frankie Cocozza to first place.
Yesterday,
the previous Coronation Street star shrugged off the rumours, cheekily
flashing her husband during his 60th birthday celebrations.
They had woken as much as The Sunday Mirror’s report about her alleged affair with Mr Townley.
On the rocks? Denise and Tim Healey has been married for 23 years
One of his friend’s told the
newspaper that Welch met Townley on the Jet Black club in London last
April after filming Loose Women and had even spent the night together with her
before she went into the fame Big Brother house.
He added: ‘They started seeing one another on a
casual basis. Lincoln said she was the identical clear of the cameras as
she was on TV. He saw the Loose Woman in her pop out once they were
partying together.’
The
friend added that Welch would stay at his home occasionally but they
would mostly spend time in her hotel room near the Loose Women studios
after the show were filmed after which she would head home to Cheshire
day after today.
‘Lincoln said they’ve a good time
together, the age difference doesn’t matter. She is a celebration girl,
surely. He loves being together with her because she’s such great fun. It
was very casual and all about having fun. Lincoln enjoyed it because
there has been no emotional stress.’
Triumphant: Denise proved well-liked by viewers and won Celebrity Big Brother
Lincoln
is even believed to have told friends that he was surprised that Welch never tried to conceal their relationship and so they were always seen
together at bars and restaurants in central London.
But by the early autumn, the friend said their relationship began to get more serious and Welch began talking openly about her marriage problems and said she felt she was living a ‘double life’.
Last night, Welch issued a press release saying: ‘It’s Tim’s 60th birthday and we
are celebrating that and the truth that mummy is home after three weeks in
the BB house. We are not interested within the Sunday Mirror article.’
The actress was candid about her previous affairs, both on Loose Women and in her autobiography.
In an interview last May, she said: ‘There
is a perception that Tim is the long-suffering husband and that i’m bad
Denise. It’s not true. We’ve both, by our own admission, strayed.’
Heated up: Tom says his affair with Denise Welch (centre) went up a notch when the actress was in Dancing On Ice
