Celebrity Big Brother star Calum Best has said he couldn’t wait to get out of the famous house – because he was dying to see his girlfriend.
The son of Irish football legend George Best, kept his new relationship a secret, but he has been dating model Ianthe Rose Cochran-Stack.
Now Calum has admitted he pretended he was single, so Channel 5 bosses would put him in the show.
“I have changed but I’m always going to have a naughty side. So I went to see my girlfriend the day after the final and we…hung out.
“She’s cool with what happened in the house. But going on the show,I was conscious, like a few others, that I wanted to be ‘single’.
Other half: Calum is dating Ianthe Rose Cochran-Stack
“Celebrity Big Brother wouldn’t touch me for years and I’ve worked hard for this chance so I wasn’t going to jeopardise it by saying: ‘I’m taken.’
“I had to walk in by myself and leave by myself,” he told the Sun.
Even though he is taken, Calum flirted a lot with US glamour model Cami Li in the house, with fans of the show hoping they would get together.
Flirting: Calum pretended to be single
“Cami was cool and I had a lot of time for her. But I think I did myself proud there because people expected one thing and didn’t get it.
“When I was 24, and on Love Island, things might have been different. But I’m 33 now and I’m not that guy who chases girls on national TV.”
