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Dani Dyer reveals her romance with fiancé Jarrod Bowen started painfully slowly and she was warned: ‘You’re going to end up losing him’
Dani Dyer has opened up about how her relationship with footballer fiance Jarrod Bowen started and developed painfully slowly – despite the two of them being next-door neighbours and fancying each other.
The Love Island star, 28, said despite thinking there was chemistry between them, she never thought the England striker would be interested in a serious long-term relationship.
When they met, Danihad recently given birth to her son Santiago – although she was no longer with his dad Sammy Kimmence.
Former Love Island winner Dani said even when she started inviting Jarrod round for dinners at her home, she would be desperate to kick him out by 10pm while he was chatting because she knew Santi would wake her up early.
Although things heated up over time, she said she still kept dropping hints to the West Ham start that he might not want to be with a single mum – until eventually her mother Joanne Mas and former EastEnders actor dad Danny told her she was risking losing him.
Dani also told how she was worried how Jarrod’s family would feel, only to later find out his mum had liked her so much on 2018’s Love Island she had voted for Dani and her past partner Jack Fincham on the show – and told Jarrod he should try hooking up with her despite them never having met.
Influencer Dani had Santiago in January 2021 and soon after she moved into a house next door to Jarrod.
Dani said: ‘Jarrod was my neighbour. I moved into the house I was in with Santi and he was only a few months old.
‘People were like ‘Jarrod Bowen lives next door’, but I didn’t follow football at the time, just wasn’t interested in football,
‘He knocked on my door a couple of times because my parcels went there.
‘The first time I opened the door, slicked back hair, and I didn’t know this is Jarrod Bowen. And he was hot. Blue eyes, blonde hair. I was like ‘Oh, thanks’.
‘A few times I’d see him. I used to know when he was leaving for football. I’d hear his car go and he was reversing out and I’d go ‘I’ll put the bins out’.
‘I knew once I looked ok because I had a shoot that day. I put the key in the door, and he came out, and I thought ‘I know I look good today’.
‘And he said once ‘Have you got a meter reading key?’ Very sexy.
Influencer Dani had Santiago in January 2021 and soon after she moved into a house next door to Jarrod.
Dani said: ‘Jarrod was my neighbour. I moved into the house I was in with Santi and he was only a few months old.
‘People were like ‘Jarrod Bowen lives next door’, but I didn’t follow football at the time, just wasn’t interested in football,
‘He knocked on my door a couple of times because my parcels went there.
‘The first time I opened the door, slicked back hair, and I didn’t know this is Jarrod Bowen. And he was hot. Blue eyes, blonde hair. I was like ‘Oh, thanks’.
‘A few times I’d see him. I used to know when he was leaving for football. I’d hear his car go and he was reversing out and I’d go ‘I’ll put the bins out’.
‘I knew once I looked ok because I had a shoot that day. I put the key in the door, and he came out, and I thought ‘I know I look good today’.
‘And he said once ‘Have you got a meter reading key?’ Very sexy.
