Ex-footballer Jamie Carragher wooed his childhood sweetheart Nicola Hart by splashing out on a swanky Dubai hotel room with a mirror above the bed.
“I was trying to impress her,” he says of the exclusive Burj Al Arab. She must have been impressed, as the couple have been together for 26 years now.
“It was our first holiday together, she wasn’t the wife then,” he says, joking that his opulent trip clearly did the trick.
