Celebrity MasterChef: What happened between Nancy Dell’Olio and Sven-Goran Eriksson?-Alicia Adejobi-Entertainment – Metro

Nancy Dell’Olio will see if she can handle the heat in the kitchen on Celebrity MasterChef (Picture: BBC/Shine TV)

Celebrity MasterChef kicks off tonight and will see Nancy Dell’Olio among the first five stars hoping to dazzle the judges with their cooking skills.

This year’s series gets underway on Channel 4 tonight, with Love Island star Faye Winter, ChuckleVision’s Paul Chuckle, McFly’s Danny Jones and comedian Kae Kurd taking part in the first heat. 

Italian lawyer Nancy, 60, will be joining them but she isn’t a stranger to reality television, having previously competed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2011 and Celebrity Big Brother in 2016. 

The TV personality recently opened up about her kitchen habits and said: ‘I have never been a good cook and I’m not pretending to be.’ 

‘One thing I know is if something tastes good or not. The secret is to have a boyfriend or father who knows how to cook. I love when somebody is doing that for me,’ she added to The Times. 

Speaking of boyfriends, Nancy’s appearance on Celebrity MasterChef will no doubt cast minds back to her highly-publicised relationship with former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson in the late 90s and 00s – and the scandal that ensued. 

Sven Goran Eriksson and Nancy Dell’Olio met in 1998 and began dating six months later (Picture: WireImage)

The couple moved to London when Sven-Goran became manager of the England football team (Picture: WireImage)

When did Nancy and Sven-Goran date? 

Nancy was already a successful lawyer but rose to fame as the partner of then-England football team manager Sven-Goran. 

The legal eagle met the Swedish football icon in 1998 and their relationship became official six months later. 

When did Sven-Goran and Ulrika Jonsson have an affair? 

Sven-Goran and Nancy’s relationship hit the rocks in early 2002 when it emerged he’d had a whirlwind romance with TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson. 

Nancy broke off the relationship amid the intense scrutiny before eventually getting back together with the football manager. However, Sven-Goran was later linked to another woman and Nancy ended things for good in August 1997. 

Ulrika has been open about her romance with Sven-Goran, and wrote in her column for The Sun in 2021: ‘I carried on my pursuit for love, pausing briefly for a fumble under the covers with a nearly 60-year-old, Sven-Göran Eriksson. 

‘Yes, I am also trying to forget it because sex was about as exciting as assembling an IKEA bookcase, which is what makes my argument for a younger man inescapably convincing.’ 

Ulrika Jonsson had a whirlwind romance with Sven-Goran four four months in 2002 (Picture: WireImage)

The affair ended Sven-Goran and Nancy’s relationship but she ended up taking him before splitting for good in 2007 (Picture: Getty Images)

In 2013, Sven-Goran released an autobiography in which he said he fell out of love with Nancy after a year.

Reacting to the comments, Nancy told Hello!: ‘Everyone is entitled to have an opinion, of course they are, but not to lie. For me it is a shame that I was with someone for nine years and yet I do not recognise this man at all. 

‘I find it shocking how he talks about using women. Does he think that is something to be proud of? No real man would talk about women like that.’ 

Who is Nancy dating now? 

After breaking up with Sven, Nancy began dating Trevor Nunn in May 2011 but they split later that year. 

In a new interview with The Times, Nancy revealed she is currently in a relationship but ‘considers [herself] a single person’ in mind. 

Celebrity MasterChef starts on BBC One at 8pm tonight.

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