Model Jeremy Meeks fixes me with his piercing blue eyes, hunches forward and, in a softly-spoken voice, insists his love for Topshop heiress Chloe Green is the real thing.
In his first ever interview with the Daily Mirror,the “Hot Felon” breaks his silence over claims that he is after her billionaire dad Sir Philip Green’s fortune.
“I’ve never been happier in my life than right now. We’ve found love, we’re in love and we are very happy.
“I love Chloe for her and if she didn’t have a dollar I wouldn’t give a sh*t because we’re so happy.
“Her dad has never questioned me on my past or made me feel uncomfortable and I’m not scared of what he thinks of me because he knows his daughter.He knows her and he knows that if she’s in love she won’t have chosen someone who isn’t right. I never had a father figure growing up because my dad got a life sentence for murder when I was only nine months old.
“He’s actually recently been released and I haven’t seen him but now I would really like to one day.”
He says:
“I have met all of her family and she has met mine.
“My friends love her, my family love her and I love her family. We’ve had a lot of good times together with her mom and her dad. I had met her mom before but the first time I met Philip was at the Prince Albert Foundation dinner.
“I talked to him on the phone before but meeting him was great. He is an amazing man – he’s been very loving and caring.
“He loves his family and would do anything for them – he is a very respectable man and I have a lot of love for him. He’s a really good guy.”
The best thing to come out of my change of direction is my relationship with Chloe. Of course we come from very different backgrounds but we both have tight-knit families.“You think of people of her stature and you think they’ll be stuck up and entitled but she is the farthest thing from that.“She’s the most humble, down-to-earth person you could imagine. Her family has been the same with me too and I am very grateful to them.”
On his failed marriage, Jeremy insists his marriage was all but over by the time he met Chloe – and it was by no means love at first sight for him and the former Made In Chelsea TV star.
“The people who really know me and my family know that my marriage had been over for a long time when I met Chloe.
“For a while my wife and I had a very good life together and then for a long time we didn’t. The marriage was over for a lot longer than people think.
On how he met Chloe, he said
“A front was put on for the kids so as not to disrupt their lifestyle. When I met Chloe at a party at Cannes film festival, I was on my own, not talking to anyone so she came and started talking to me.
“She is very kind and considerate, and that is what attracted me to her.“But that first night, we just talked for a couple of minutes and went our separate ways.”
They were destined to meet again at a second shindig in Monaco, where Chloe once attended an internationally-renowned private school. Jeremy goes on:
“We talked a little longer but it still wasn’t flirtatious. We didn’t exchange numbers or anything. Then Philipp Plein threw a dinner for me at Maya Bay restaurant in Monaco to celebrate the after-party of his fashion show. Chloe was there.
“I didn’t put her on the guest list and I don’t know who invited her but I am happy to say that she was there and that after that we fell in love.”
“I have an amazing life now, I live in a very comfortable home in The Oaks in Calabasas (west of Beverly Hills) and I am very blessed.“But when I met Chloe I had no clue who she was, she was just Chloe to me and she still is. I love her for her.“It was only when we started talking more that she told me about her family and her background. But I pay no mind to that and she pays no mind to my past either because the future is positive and we are very happy.
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