EXCLUSIVE Going out with the old ones! Denise Van Outen has gone from loving rat to former Eddie Boxshall and “is happily dating a real estate developer” eight months after their separation.
By Joanna Crawley for Mailonline
Posted: 14:59, 29 June 2022 | Updated: 3:16 PM, June 29, 2022
Denise Van Outen passes on her ex-love rat ex Eddie Boxshall.
The 48-year-old star is dating a real estate developer, eight months after she left her seven-year-old boyfriend after catching him having sex with other women.
Sources have told MailOnline that the star has come out happy with her new husband Jimmy for a few weeks after being introduced by a mutual friend.
New man: Denise Van Outen leaves her former love rat Eddie Boxshall and goes out with a real estate developer after meeting through mutual friends
Denise and Jimmy met through All Saints star Shaznay Lewis, and inside information revealed they had been “on some dates.”
“It’s the first days, but everything is going very well and Denise is happy,” the source reveals.
Denise revealed that she had separated from Eddie in a New Year’s Instagram post, after initially discovering her infidelities in November 2021.
He caught Eddie sexually flirting with three women and has described his behavior as “disrespectful and devastatingly hurting.”
Division: Denise announced that she had separated from Eddie in January after discovering that she had cheated on him during their seven-year relationship (pictured in February 2020)
Denise claimed to have found images and Instagram messages on Eddie’s iPad, detailing the ordeal in her autobiography, A Bit Of Me: From Basildon To Broadway And Back.
Denise wrote, “There were also Instagram messages alluding to phone sex with a third woman. I quickly found the woman’s profile by her screen name, only to discover that I had previously blocked her on the my Instagram account, which I found strange.
He continued, “This was a woman I didn’t know, who had clearly had an online connection with my boyfriend. Why would I have blocked her from my Instagram account? I immediately unlocked her and sent her a message. saying how he knew Eddie.
“Early days”: Sources told MailOnline that the star has been happy with her new husband Jimmy for a few weeks after being introduced by a mutual friend (Denise in the photo with a group of friends in May)
He added: “He suggested that Eddie had probably logged into my phone and blocked it so he couldn’t send me messages.
“He seems to have talked to Eddie on FaceTime and sent text messages over a long period of time, often from our home and sometimes from my flat in Hampstead, which he seemed to think was his.
“They had never met in person, but he said the conversations had become reasonably sexually fast – some of the things I found on the phone seemed to support it.
“However, she was upset with Eddie because it looks like he had a ghost.”
The TV star recently talked about the creepy moment he told his 12-year-old daughter Betsy about the separation.
Denise, who is Betsy’s co-parent with ex-husband Lee Mead, said sharing the news with her daughter was the “worst part” of the breakup.
Difficult split: Denise caught Eddie flirting sexually with three women and has described her behavior as “disrespectful and devastatingly hurting.”
“It broke me to see her cry as I tried to make her understand,” Denise reminded OK! magazine.
Going back to Eddie, 48, was not an option for the TOWIE narrator, as he explained.
“I have too much respect for myself and I can’t live this. I felt that in a few selfish moments I had ruined it. I couldn’t imagine ever feeling the same,” he admitted.
Eddie moved out of Denise’s house after their shock separation and is now believed to be staying with friends.
Meanwhile, Denise’s close friend Duncan James of the Blue Boys band has replaced Eddie in the current Celebrity Gogglebox series, taking her place on the couch in addition to Denise for the popular Channel 4 show.
Close: TV star recently talked about the creepy moment she told her 12-year-old daughter Betsy about the separation (pictured with Betsy)