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<\/p>\nTHEY were one of Big Brother's great on-screen love stories.<\/p>\n
But outside the house, series six contestants Saskia Howard-Clarke and Maxwell Ward's romance fizzled out within 12 months.<\/p>\n
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Reflecting on their relationship 17 years on, Saskia, 41, admits cheeky chappy Maxwell was never really her type.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview, she tells us: "He laughed me into bed, that's the best way to describe it. <\/p>\n
"He's a really nice<\/span>, funny guy and very persistent, I'll give him that, but time in there is slow, right? I think I was in there for five or six weeks and you've been away hiding for two weeks before with no contact with your family, it's a long time. Then to get close to somebody…<\/p>\n "It happened organically but, listen, if I'd met him on the outside, I don't mean to be horrible, but he wouldn't have been my type at all."<\/p>\n In a Big Brother first, the couple went head to head in an eviction.<\/p>\n Saskia was eliminated first with 71 percent of the vote and Maxwell was given the boot a week later, losing out to Kieron 'Science<\/span>' Harvey.<\/p>\n The pair made a good go of life outside the house as a couple and even bought a house together, but it quickly became apparent the connection they had was stronger within the confines of programme.<\/p>\n Towards the end of their relationship, Saskia says they were living in separate bedrooms.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n She says: "We had to sell the house. I then met a boyfriend. We had little bickers because I'd want him out the house when my then boyfriend would be coming over. It was a bit messy but we were young, we were mid twenties."<\/p>\n The former couple eventually embraced the split and even took part in a photoshoot for OK! Magazine based on the Hollywood comedy<\/span> The Break-Up starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as warring lovers.<\/p>\n For Saskia, the reaction to the split rather than the separation itself was the most difficult thing to take.<\/p>\n She says: "What was frustrating for me was more like the 'told you so. I knew she wouldn't be with him,' and I felt bad for him because he had a lot of stick saying that he was punching, which is not nice."<\/p>\n In 2014 Saskia found herself unlucky in love once again when her then husband and the father to her son Phoenix, 10, walked out on her.<\/p>\n Though they now have an amicable relationship and continue to co-parent their son, the shock split left Saskia heartbroken.<\/p>\n She says: "It was awful. It was a real struggle because I was heartbroken. I dealt with it privately, this is the first time I've spoken about it publicly. I was just being a mum and having to survive as in psychologically, it was trauma.<\/p>\n "Like anything, time's a healer and you start going on dates and you try and you've got to kiss a lot of frogs [laughs]." <\/p>\n Saskia met her current partner five years ago on dating app Tinder.<\/p>\n She says: "It all seemed so exciting [Tinder]. I'd never seen it before. But when I actually delved into it, when I'd been single for however long, you realise it's so boring. You're practically copying and pasting your messages. It was so draining. I hadn't been that interested, and then I met my partner and that kind of changed that for me.<\/p>\n "You learn to love again. Everyone's got baggage, haven't they."<\/p>\n The doting mum and former lads' mag favourite is now once again looking to harness her glamour girl experience to provide for her family, though her partner isn't too keen.<\/p>\n "He can't stand it," she says of his reaction to her Only Fans content."He never met me when I was glamour modelling. He never knew me when I was in the limelight. When I said I was going to do this I think he thought I wouldn't so it."<\/p>\n But for Saskia, it comes down to her will to provide a good life for her son, and she feels comfortable with the career move.<\/p>\nREAD MORE ON BIG BROTHER<\/h2>\n
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