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Female footballer who ended Christine McGuinness' marriage to Paddy revealed. Friends tell KATIE HIND truth of how friendship turned romantic - and why Christine now 'despises' her ex-husband


When the cameras stopped rolling on series five of the ITV reality programme The Games, two of its star competitors could often be seen in deep conversation, giggling together.

When the cameras stopped rolling on series five of the ITV reality programme The Games – in which celebrities competed against each other in Olympic-style sports such as diving and weightlifting – two of its star competitors could often be seen in deep conversation, giggling together. In the vast grounds of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in south-east London, Christine McGuinness and Chelcee Grimes, a former footballer and musician, soon became something of a clique within the group of 12 stars. Now I can reveal the truth about Christine’s and Chelcee’s friendship – and why, despite being pictured kissing at Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland in December 2022 and in Ibiza the following summer, they for so long refused to acknowledge anything romantic.

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