CHANTELLE Houghton has revealed she nearly killed her new fiance Michael Strutt on their very first date.
The Celebrity Big Brother winner explained how her offer to cook him lunch had him choking on her chicken salad.
Chantelle, 36, recently announced her engagement to the property developer and dad-of-two on social media after a whirlwind romance.
The couple had been dating for only three months before Michael, 34, popped the question.
But as the pair revealed, it could have been a very different story.
Speaking about their first date, Michael explained how Chantelle got in touch after he split from his ex-partner: “She offered to make me lunch and it went from there.”
“And I made him the best jacket potato he’s ever had in his life, with a chicken salad,” Chantelle told new! magazine.
“Unfortunately he nearly choked to death on the salad and I didn’t even realise! Literally, he only told me recently that he nearly died in that moment.”
Michael recalled: “I was eating the salad and a bit got stuck in my throat. It was a bit awkward. I discreetly sorted it out, but it’s not ideal, is it?”
“Oh my God I nearly killed you on our first date,” joked Chantelle.
“My salad almost finished you off!”
Chantelle relationship history includes a one year marriage to fellow Celebrity Big Brother contestant Preston.
She was also engaged to Katie Price’s ex Alex Reid, together they are parents to seven-year-old Dolly.
But with Michael, who she knew for nine years before becoming romantically involved, she stated: “I’ve never loved a partner so much that the thought of them randomly dying upsets me so much. I’m probably only thinking that because of the corona thing, but it does prove to me that I really, really love him.”
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