Towie’s Amber Turner reveals she’s now dating Dan Edgar after escaping ‘controlling’ and ‘sexless’ relationship with Jamie Reed
AMBER Turner has revealed that she was faking her “perfect” relationship with Jamie Reed for years.
Confessing she was “too embarrassed” to tell her friends and family that he was “controlling” and they were “no longer intimate”, the 23-year-old said she kept quiet about how unhappy she was.
The couple ended their four-and-a-half year relationship two weeks ago and rumours have been rife that Amber cheated on Jamie with Towie’s Dan Edgar after she went back to his hotel room in Tenerife.
While she confirms they are now dating, she insists she never cheated - despite various sources telling The Sun Online otherwise, and that Dan was not the reason she ended her relationship.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun Online, she said: “Dan did turn my head and when I was with Jamie and that left me confused, but I absolutely never cheated on him in Tenerife. I would never do that, I’m a loyal person, and Dan had nothing to do with our break up.”
She adds: “Me and Dan aren’t anything serious, we’re just getting to know each other, we had a discussion and decided we are now seeing each other. We’ve both come out of long relationships so we don’t want to rush anything.”
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She has now moved out of the home she shared with the 34-year-old where she said they were essentially “roommates.”
Amber said: “We lived together but spent no time with each other, we were in a rut, we never saw one another, we never did nice things, it was just nothing, we were just roommates.
“I was often so tired after work that we stopped being intimate and it just killed all passion, which would really grate on him. But the chemistry and passion just weren't there, it would sometimes come back on holiday, but once that spark has gone it’s impossible to get back.”
After Amber took a job with long hours in at a law firm in the City she was often desperate to unwind with friends including Megan McKenna at the weekends, however she claims that Jamie did not approve.
“He worked in the club industry and at weekends he’d judge me for going out.
“I’d feel bad for seeing my mates, as he’d rather I was the type of girlfriend who stayed in, he was quite controlling.
“Every time I went out he’d question what I was doing so I felt like I couldn’t stay out for long with my friends.
“One night a group of us had gone out for dinner and then to Megan’s afterwards and I remember looking at my phone and there was twenty missed calls, and I just couldn’t believe it.”
However Amber felt like she couldn’t open up to those closest to her as so many people had been critical of their 12-year age gap when they got together when she was 19.
“Everyone told us it wouldn’t last because he was so much older, so I was too embarrassed to talk to my friends and family when we started arguing.
“We would never confront our problems and just sweep them under the carpet. I pretended to my friends and family that we had the perfect relationship but we didn’t.
“He always made me feel like I couldn’t go and tell my friends if something was wrong, and it changed me as a person out relationship, I became so private and in myself and every time something bad happened I got so upset but I couldn’t tell anyone, not even my parents.
“I’ve never been to my parents’ house and cried ever. I just portrayed it as the perfect relationship and that’s why everyone is so shocked.”
She adds: “Now we’re over I feel like a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I’m not being hounded 24/7, I can finally be myself.”
Jamie told The Sun Online: “I don’t know what Amber is talking about, I was never once controlling in our relationship, or ever told her what to do.
“The only thing I can think of is maybe me suggesting she went to a restaurant rather than constantly going to the same club.
“I don’t recognise this person Amber has become or understand why she is saying any of these things about us, we had a very happy relationship.”