Sarah Cawood 'face-crashed' Declan Donnelly at I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! wrap party
Sarah Cawood and Declan Donnelly kissed at the wrap party for the 2004 series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!
Sarah Cawood "face-crashed" Declan Donnelly at the wrap party for the 2004 series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!
The TV presenter, now 53, "refreshed" her lip gloss before "instigating a kiss" with the ITV jungle survival show's host, now 50, in a corridor after mistakenly believing he fancied her, and although Dec kissed her back, Sarah thinks he did so "to be polite".
Speaking to Best magazine's editor-in-chief Siobhan Wykes on the latest episode of the publication's Suddenly Single podcast, Sarah recalled: "I went to cover I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! for This Morning when Jordan [Katie Price's pseudonym] and Peter [Andre] got together.
"And there was a lovely big wrap party, and I fancied Dec. I remember thinking we'd make a lovely cute little couple because we're both quite diminutive. And I thought he fancied me. I think I might have misread that!
"Anyway, I'd had a glass, obviously; I refreshed the lip gloss. And I came out of the toilet, and he was going into the gents, which was beside it. And I just face-crashed, what I would call a face-crash, which is when you instigate a kiss.
"He did kiss back, probably just to be polite. And then as we pulled away, he just touched his lips and went, 'Oh, you've just applied.' Smothered him in lip gloss."
The Live and Kicking host added: "He even vaguely reciprocated, and I got very excited.
"I mean, this was young Sarah - one kiss, and we were married. Proper Bridget Jones. Honestly, I was an absolute disaster."
Although Dec - who has been married to 47-year-old talent manager Ali Astall since 2015 - did not return her romantic feelings, Sarah admitted that in her "little head" she picked out a wedding dress.
The Top of the Pops presenter - who got hitched to Andy Merry in 2012 - even "face-crashed one of the groomsmen" at ex-This Morning host Holly Willoughby, 45, and 51-year-old TV producer Daniel Baldwin's wedding in 2007.
Sarah added: "I was really quite drunk ... I shoved him against the marquee, and face-crashed him, and then I took myself off to bed.
"I realised it was time."
