The Sunday Mirror, 16 March 2003

CRIS ‘n’ TELL

Footballers’ Wives romeo leaves club with the busty model ‘he’s never met’

It’s a sure case of he doth protest too much when it comes to actor Cristian Solimeno’s attempts to squirm out of my latest story.

The star of Footballers’ Wives has got it together with veteran glamour model Linsey Dawn McKenzie – she of the GG boobs.

Cristian – who is forever the subject of kiss ‘n’ tells by lapdancers – who are less than impressed by his bedroom performance – made a personal appearance at The Works club in Kingston, Surrey, last Saturday night.

Also there was the fragrant Linsey, who most recently has been “dating” former EastEnders’ star Paul Nicholls, who played Joe Wicks.

The pair soon got it together and were spied jumping into a cab and disappearing off into the night. The rest I leave to your imagination, folks.

But Cristian, who plays bad boy Jason Turner in the ITV1 show, has obviously decided he is deeply unhappy about his image as a sad womaniser and has gone to ridiculous lengths to deny my story.

“He says he’s never even met Linsey,” barks his publicist Stephen Hart.

In case I didn’t get the message his agent Peter Brooks wades in: “It is untrue. If you go ahead and print this story, we will pursue further action.” The Works’ staffers tell me a different story. “Yes, Cristian was definitely here. He was lovely,” says one. There’s no accounting for taste.

Maybe Cristian, 27 should also cast his mind back to April 5 last year when he attended a salubrious party thrown by the Daily Sport newspaper at London’s Emporium nightclub – also attended by Linsey.

One party-goer remembers: “He arrived with a girl but spent the whole night getting the telephone numbers of topless models. He can’t have failed to bump into Linsey that night.”

And if Cristian’s memory doesn’t go back that far, I could remind him about the recent night he was coincidentally at Chinawhite club at the same time as Linsey.