Denise van Outen has shared details of her recent relationship breakup in her new book entitled A Bit of Me. Described as a "refreshingly candid memoir", she speaks openly about a past high-profile relationship and the betrayal she suffered at the hands of those once closest to her.
The book also details her rollercoaster career, which saw her shoot to fame on The Big Breakfast in her early twenties. Her recent high profile split from Eddie Boxshall has been widely publicised, and she has now shared more about how she caught him cheating after borrowing his iPad.
She revealed she had searched a deleted folder on his iPad after he seemed reluctant to hand it over. She found messages "alluding to phone sex" with a woman - and then confronted her, Birmingham Live reports. The Celebrity Gogglebox star also found a screenshot of a woman. She said she had also found out that he had made a screenshot of another woman his screensaver - calling it the "biggest red flag".
Denise says: “I quickly found the woman’s profile by her screen name only to discover I’d previously blocked her on my Instagram account — which struck me as odd. This was a woman who I didn’t know, who’d clearly had an online connection with my boyfriend." She added: “Straight away I unblocked her and sent her a message asking how she knew Eddie. ‘Oh, you’ve unblocked me then,’ came the fast reply. I don’t even know you, why would I block you?
She suggested that Eddie had probably gone into my phone and blocked her so she couldn’t message me. Her name was Tracy and she had apparently spoken to Eddie over FaceTime and text for a long period — often from our home and sometimes from my flat in Hampstead, which she seemed to think was his."
She also said she found selfies of Eddie with another woman in a bar — taken while she was at home alone after booking time off for a night with him. And she detailed the excuses he had given her after she confronted her fiance.
“As far as the woman showing her boobs went, Eddie said he didn’t know why she’d sent the picture," Denise wrote. "When the story came out I received messages from people saying they’d seen them together. As for the second woman, ‘A friend’ was the best he could do.
“It transpired she was an ex from 2013. He swore he’d met up with her as she’d just been to her father’s funeral. I later discovered he died a year and a half earlier. If there was nothing in it, why all the secrecy? And having one of those shots as his screensaver was the biggest red flag of all!”
