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The real reason kris smith dumped Dannii Minogue

“It absolutely ripped my heart out.” - by New Idea
  • 03 Mar 2017
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Kris Smith opened up about his painful split from Dannii Minogue on Thursday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.

Chatting to fellow contestant Steve Price for the jungle radio segment, he gave a tell-all interview about their relationship. 

He reveals that he met Dannii at a nightclub when he was celebrating his 30th birthday while on holiday.

“I ripped the dance floor up and I turn around and see a woman, she's in the VIP area,” he explained. “She's looking at me and I go, ‘Oh, nice.’”

Smith was then approached by Minogue’s security guard.

“He said, ‘What's your name?’ I asked why. He said, ‘Dannii wants to meet you.’ [Now] she's the mother of my child,” he said.

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The pair soon became inseparable and although Smith ended up postponing his flight thanks to the help of a generous friend.

“I told mates I was on holiday with. A mate, Steve, came up [with] an envelope, a birthday card,” he said.

“He'd bought me a new ticket home and enough to stay there. Without him none of that [relationship and child] happens.”

The couple were together for four years, and share a son, Ethan, together.

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Smith said he ended up leaving Minogue because they were constantly fighting.

“It got to a point where Dannii - it wasn't working for anyone,” he shared.

“We didn't want to get in silly bickering arguments in front of Ethan. So the hardest thing I've had to do was leave.

“[Ethan]was very young but I didn't ever want to see him in an environment where it's a little bit bitter or argumentative.

“All I ever wanted in life was to settle down with one woman and have kids with one woman,” he said.

He later added: “Yeah, it absolutely ripped my heart out but it was for the best.”

Smith was evicted from the jungle on last night’s episode, along with The Bachelor’s Keira Maguire.

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This article originally appeared on WHO.

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