Wednesday, 13 December 2006

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Vanessa Feltz: Ben loves my curves

TV hostess is in love with her singer toyboy

Vanessa Feltz, 44, is delighted that her singer boyfriend Ben Ofoedu is bonkers about her voluptuous figure.

‘I MC’d a charity do recently and wore a fabulous corset. Some people thought I looked great and some thought I looked fat. So what? Ben was there and loved it,’ she grins.

The presenter, who used to be a size 24, dramatically shed 6st after ex-husband surgeon Michael Kurer told her: 'Lose weight or I leave'.

The couple split anyway six years ago and mum-of-two Vanessa then fell for fitness trainer Dennis Duhaney, who helped her slim down to a size 12.

It wasn't to last (the relationship or the diet) and she met Phats And Small Ben, 34, after appearing in CBB with Boyzone's Keith Duffy.

‘He was his pal,’ she tells Saturday magazine. ‘We were both with other people at the time so the four of us hung out for a bit.’

They got together last summer when Vanessa was hospitalised with a virus. ‘Ben called to see if I was OK and it was clear there was a spark,' she reveals. 'I am in love.'

Vanessa's TV career is also looking up. In 1999 she quit her successful ITV daytime show to defect to the BBC, only to have that show axed when it was discovered that fake guests had appeared.

Now she's back in Vanessa’s Real Lives on ITV daily at 12.30.

Anna Bailey