Adrian Chiles always DID look very close to Christine Bleakley
Monday, 14 July 2008
As the rumours of a potential love match between BBC presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley rage on, we take a look at some photos of them getting very close on The One Show's sofa.
Likeable Chiles - whose marriage to radio presenter Jane Garvey reportedly collapsed last month due to the pressures of his blossoming career - made no bones about the fact that he didn't get on with the sexy Northern Irish presenter at first.
He told the Radio Times: "At first, I thought she was a dippy, nice-looking bird from Northern Ireland, and she thought I was a miserable old fart.
But he admitted they soon became fond of one another: "We eventually just clicked," he said.
"Christine's technically brilliant. She crosses the t's and dots the i's. What tends to happen is that I put us in trouble, and she gets us out of it."
Maybe it's just the way the BBC encourages its presenters to be less formal on screen, but Chiles almost always appears glued to Bleakley's shoulder whenever they are on camera together.
So it comes as no surprise that when 41 year-old Chiles reportedly met up with Bleakley for a take-away at a secret basement flat at the weekend, it only served to stoke the blossoming relationship fire for the media.
Christine, who is currently in a relationship with entrepreneur Mark Beirne, worked as a presenter in Northern Ireland before fronting BBC2 variety show Let Me Entertain You and then taking over from Myleene Klass on The One Show.
she agreed with Chiles' earlier comments that the pair didn't initially see eye to eye: "It's no secret that I didn't like Adrian at all to begin with - I found him intense," she said.
"And I think, as far as he was concerned, I was a nonentity.
"But I gave as good as I got and, eventually, that created a chemistry."
Bleakley has since put out a statement saying the couple were "good friends off screen" but suggestions of anything more was 'utterly ludicrous'.
Chiles's spokesperson, meanwhile, declined to comment.
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