Dan Osborne’s blonde LA pal denies they are having an affair but says he hasn’t mentioned Jacqueline Jossa in five years
The woman - who is a PR from Manchester - has broken her silence on the images of her whispering and giggling with the reality star on a night out
DAN Osborne’s blonde LA pal has denied they are having an affair but admits he’s never mentioned his relationship with wife Jacqueline Jossa in the five years he’s known her.
The former Towie star hit headlines over the weekend when he was pictured looking close to the woman – who we can now reveal is 33-year-old PR Steph Ledigo.
In an exclusive chat with The Sun Online Steph, who runs the successful Go Pr and Events, has hit back at the suggestion they are romantically involved, telling us: “I would never go near a married man. It was purely professional.
“There has definitely never been anything romantic between us. He’s like a brother. I just don’t feel like that at all.”
Steph explains she has known Dan for around five years because her PR company has hired him for celebrity events and says they have met around 25 times.
During this time she hasn’t met his wife, former EastEnders actress Jacqueline, and admitted they never talk about her, saying: “I wouldn’t be close enough to him to talk about relationships.”
The single business woman revealed the pair were on separate trips in the States but ended up meeting one evening for dinner.
“He was working with a gym over there. I was there seeing a friend in San Francisco and I have clients in LA so I went to see them,” she told us.
“We just went for dinner. He was working and I just met up with them and came back to the UK.”
Pictures emerged showing them whispering in each other’s ears and giggling but Steph says there was nothing unusual about their night out – which involved two other friends.
Manchester-based Steph explained: “It was just friends having a night out together. I had a few drinks – about two cocktails and someone sent us a shot. It was just normal like I was chilling with any of my friends.
“I just talk about work all the time to be honest. It was just normal things that people our age talk about.”
At the end of the evening Steph was seen holding onto Dan, but while she admits she was a bit tipsy after a couple of cocktails mixed with jet lag, she has insisted it was purely innocent.
“I probably couldn’t stand up very well. I would do that to any of my male friends, just hold on to them,” she said.
“I am aware I look a bit drunk but I was a bit tired. It was 10pm and that was the latest I’d stayed out on the trip.”
After the pictures came out Steph reveals she and Dan laughed it off but she’s aware how tough it must for father-of-three Dan.
She said: “He was on a work thing and we know each other in such a professional capacity, I guess that would be annoying as a married person.
“I was upset for him because I knew nothing had happened and I didn’t want it to have any impact on his marriage at all. Obviously for me, I don’t want people to think I am going near a married man.”
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Steph plans to book him for work events in the future and is adamant he’s not the man he’s portrayed to be.
“The thing with Dan is he’s very friendly, he’s a lovely guy, my clients absolutely love him,” she explained.
“I think he gets misconstrued because a lot of girls target him but from what we’ve seen he’s always extremely professional.”
She added: “I just think he is a good lad. I have never seen him do anything wrong, it’s just a shame there are so many pictures of him all the time.”
After the meeting the pair flew back to the UK together but Steph declined to comment why.
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