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Big Brother’s Caroline Monk has revealed her past relationship with Matthew Wright to her fellow housemates as she opened up about their split.
The PR guru, nicknamed ‘Monkey’, previously dated the TV presenter in the noughties and was engaged to the now 60-year-old.
Caroline and Matthew were publicly pictured together on a number of occasions side-by-side beaming for the cameras at red carpets events.
However, after Matthew proposed to the eccentric Big Brother housemate, their relationship soon abruptly came to an end.
Daily Mail can reveal Caroline, 56, will let slip about her famous relationship in the spy house during tonight’s episode on ITV2.
While in a conversation with Conservative housemate Emily Hewertson, she probes her: ‘Were you with Matthew Wright? Or have I made that up?’
Big Brother Caroline Monk has revealed her past relationship with Matthew Wright to her fellow housemates as she opened up about their split (pictured in 2005)
Daily Mail can reveal Caroline, 56, will let slip about her famous relationship in the spy house during tonight’s episode on ITV2
Caroline, who has been engaged five times, replies: ‘Yes – I was engaged to him.’
Her revelation leaves them stunned as fellow contestant Marcus interrupts: ‘What? You were engaged to Matthew Wright?’
She then explains: ‘We went out for quite a long time. He was there the day the surgeon said “you’ve got cancer”.
‘I moved in with him because I had a flat, because I was ill I moved in with him.’
However, she continued by sharing how a holiday abroad exposed cracks in the relationship and she swiped Matthew became ‘ratty’ with her.
Caroline said: ‘Everything was really good and then it just went Pete Tong. We went on holiday to Canada and we just didn’t get on at all. He was ratty with me, I was ratty with him.
‘We got engaged in Canada. We did two steps with cowboys dancing and then we sat outside on this big Canadian plain where all the horses were and stuff. And then he said ‘will you marry me?’ and put a little thing around my finger.’
‘On the way home we went through the airport. I’d designed a ring in my head which was a heart with all diamonds going around it and it was there [in the airport].
Caroline and Matthew were publicly pictured together on a number of occasions side-by-side beaming for the cameras at red carpets events (pictured in 2005)
Matthew is now happily married to wife Ameila Gatte, with the pair first meeting in 2007 before they wed in 2010 (pictured in June 2013)
In January 2019 they welcomed their daughter Cassady after eight ‘challenging’ years of IVF and Matthew revealed Amelia suffered pre-eclampsia before giving birth
‘He bought the ring for me in Canada and then I went home and told everyone and then we split up.’
Caroline previously shared her relationship woes when she first entered the Big Brother house, saying: ‘I’ve tried to live with men and I just can’t, there’s something wrong with them.’
Matthew hosted morning programme The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 from 2000 to 2018.
He is now happily married to wife Ameila Gatte, with the pair first meeting in 2007 before they wed in 2010.
In January 2019 they welcomed their daughter Cassady after eight ‘challenging’ years of IVF and Matthew revealed Amelia suffered pre-eclampsia before giving birth.
During her long-standing career in PR, Caroline has worked alongside the likes of Kylie Minogue, Dionne Warwick and The Who.
She has also previously appeared on ITV talkshow Lorraine.
Big Brother continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.