POLO hunk James Carr revealed last night how his friendship with Jeremy Kyle’s model wife exploded into sex while the TV relationship guru was away in the US.
England player James, 25, had become pals with 40-year-old Carla Germaine after she went to him for polo lessons three years ago.
The pair enjoyed a string of flirty chats before James split with his ex and swapped numbers with Carla after a night out at a bar.
They finally became lovers this June. James said: “Carla called after midnight asking if I wanted to meet her outside for a cigarette.
“We had a smoke and a chat and she told me Jeremy was in America. Then suddenly we began kissing. Without talking, I took her hand and led her inside my house.
“Carla took her high heels off so her shoes wouldn’t make a noise on our stone stairs. We didn’t want to wake my housemates. We started having sex — it was amazing.”
James says he went on to share up to 20 passionate romps with Carla in “six or seven” get-togethers. They were last in touch last month.
Days ago Jeremy, 50, revealed his 13-year marriage was over, saying he and Carla were living apart and had separated amicably.
His legal team tried to block The Sun on Sunday from telling this story despite the fact he makes millions of pounds exposing people’s personal lives on his ITV show.
Yet even as the dad of four announced his separation from Carla, talk of her trysts was spreading like wildfire around the couple’s home town of Ascot, Berks.
James’s romps with Carla came after he rented a room in a house with three pals over the road from the £2million home she shared with Jeremy and their three kids.
The ex-public schoolboy, who twice represented England at polo in 2011, insisted yesterday: “It was just sex — it didn’t mean anything. She was worried she’d get caught.”
James recalled how he and Carla first got tactile as he helped her on and off her horse at polo.
The lessons stopped after Jeremy turned up to watch the third.
Afterwards the pair continued to meet when out locally and saw each other more often after James moved to the property yards away.
They shared their first kiss in March after meeting at Ascot’s Bar One, near the famous racecourse — and repeated it a month later.
But it was in early June that their relationship finally became sexual.
James said: “The first night it happened she instigated it more than I did. I wasn’t surprised when she kissed me back.
“We’d always got on well and there was always enough flirting in the past for me to know it was going to happen. After our chat over a cigarette, we kissed and I led her inside my house. The sex was amazing.
“Time flew by and soon it was 5am and we could hear my housemates stirring. She left in a hurry.”
From that moment the lovers sent texts to keep in constant touch.
Carla had been in such a rush to get back home after their first sex session she forgot her black bra.
She arranged to retrieve it about ten days later during another covert early-morning visit and the couple again leapt straight into bed.
James, part-owner of supercar hire firm The Gentleman’s Jolly, said: “The second time we had sex it was a lot easier. We were messaging, ‘Where are you’? then, ‘I’m here’. Done. It was a booty call.
“She seemed very cool about it all. She is fun, a good laugh and has a good sense of humour. In terms of her character she is very soft and very nice. You couldn’t fault her. I liked being around her.
“We were having fun and it was never anything more than just sex.
“It never crossed my mind to suggest going on a date because it would have been stupid to. Because it couldn’t mean anything, it meant that there wasn’t a lot of affection.
“We never had sex in their property — only at mine.”
He added: “Jeremy was away working a lot, but I’d see him come and go in his BMW. He just kept his head down.”
James, a former pupil at £25,000-a-year Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berks, had a third late-night meeting with Carla in June.
Texts between the pair showed she was concerned that their affair might be exposed.
In July she wrote: “Make sure no cars or anyone sees you. Seriously.”
But by this time she was sneaking across the road for sex at slightly earlier times, meaning she met James’ housemates.
He explained: “Whenever we had a cigarette outside, I gave her a big jacket with a hood to wear so she wouldn’t be spotted. There are security cameras all over Carla and Jeremy’s gated mansion, so it was always safer to meet and chat in my garden, before heading inside.”
Yet despite their discretion, rumours soon spread in Ascot.
James went on: “Almost overnight our affair was the talk of the town.
“At a barbecue at my house I was asked in front of 20 people if I was sleeping with Jeremy Kyle’s wife. I tried to laugh it off.
“At the polo club I was asked again if we were having an affair. It was everywhere. We just cut all ties. There wasn’t even a goodbye.”
James insisted they never developed any feelings for each other.
He explained: “Our connection was pure sex and had been brewing for years. We probably had sex 20 times altogether. It’s not like we spent hours a day on the phone.
“It was what it was and it could never be anything else as we’re at totally different phases of our lives.
“I’m 25 years old, I mess around with fast cars and do what I want, whereas she has responsibilities and a family and a husband.”
But James believes that Carla was turned on by being able to romp with a younger man.
He said: “It was something different for both of us — the whole older woman, younger guy thing.
“They had a live-in nanny so she would have been there when we were having sex over the road. She was responsible in that way.”
The young businessman has no sympathy for Jeremy. He said: “He is away a lot and Carla does her thing on the polo scene.
“You always see people having a pop about Jeremy on Facebook but he’s not really someone who overly fascinates anyone in Ascot as people come and go on the polo scene.
“I know what Jeremy is like or, at least, how he comes across on TV. But I wouldn’t watch his show.”
Carla has been a regular on the showbiz circuit during her marriage to Jeremy, happily sharing the limelight and posing for photos with her husband at awards bashes and high-profile sporting events.
But Jeremy announced their separation in a statement on Thursday, saying: “After 13 years of a generally happy marriage, my wife Carla and I have separated amicably.
“We have sadly grown apart over recent years and been living apart since earlier this summer.”
The shock announcement came after he confessed on screen that he had not had sex “for ages”.
Jeremy had a one-year marriage in 1990 to first wife Kirsty Rowley, with whom he has a daughter.
Carla made waves in 1999 by tying the knot with a total stranger in a tacky radio stunt dubbed Two Strangers and a Wedding.
But after the marriage failed she hooked up with Jeremy — then working as a DJ at the radio station which set up the competition.
Why does his privacy matter? He took mine
By LAUREN FRUEN
JEREMY Kyle has been blasted for asking the public to respect his privacy — by a woman who claims his television show helped destroy hers.
Rebecca Langley, 29, was dragged through the courts and appeared in national newspapers when she was beaten by her partner after appearing on the ITV programme.
She went on the show in 2009 with ex Jamie Juste to take a lie-detector test in an attempt to save their relationship.
After failing the test for kissing someone while on a break from Juste, mum-of-two Rebecca said she felt Kyle humiliated her in front of a studio audience.
While watching the show two weeks later Juste battered Rebecca and was eventually locked up for two years after admitting GBH.
Kyle announced his split from wife Carla days ago, but asked that they be left alone after the revelation.
Now Rebecca reckons he is a hypocrite for trying to conceal the circumstances of the break-up.
She said: “Jeremy Kyle makes money out of airing people’s dirty laundry.
“He hasn’t really got any moral ground to say he wants to keep his own relationship private.
“He was quite abrupt when my detector tests came out. He just said, ‘You were lying’ and threw the card across the studio.
“I was so shocked I walked off the stage.”
An ITV spokesman said after Juste was jailed: “Our aftercare provision is a key part of how the show aims to resolve conflict in guests’ relationships.
“Rebecca and her partner were seen by a mental health nurse after they left the studio, who advised them on a number of issues.”