By Tosin Olakotan
England and Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe has allegedly cheated on pop star girlfriend Alexandra Burke with a model and facebook friend Laura Brown.
Laura, who’s from Newcastle reportedly told friends she ‘never planned on sleeping with him, it just happened. I’m not going to lie — we did have sex’.
Before now, Defoe and X-Factor winner Alexandra, 23, had been happy to display their togetherness in public and are known as a celebrity couple.
Laura claimed to have met Defoe twice before they became friends on facebook, and said she got a text message from him saying he was in town and wanted to see her, and messaged her his room number.
‘We chatted for a while then started cuddling and talked about watching a film. But as we lay on the bed he started rubbing his hands on me and we ended up having sex.The next day I felt dreadful about it. I’d asked him about Alexandra Burke and he told me it was ‘early days’. It now appears that they really are an item. I was shocked when I saw pictures of them together in the paper this week. And Alexandra has apparently said she is in love. I am very upset’.
Laura, who has been a contestant on BBC 3’s comedy game show World Series of Dating, claimed she spent five hours in his hotel room in Newcastle the night before Spurs’ Premier League game against the Magpies. Defoe scored in the next match after the cheat sex with Laura, and she told her friend that she’d received a text from the Spurs player saying ‘ you are my lucky charm’.
Weeks later, when Laura was visiting London, Defoe allegedly made contact and invited her and two friends to visit his home in Hertfordshire for a few hours. Laura, who lives in a town ten miles away from Newcastle, tweeted the day after the fling: ‘You never know what goes on behind closed doors #sotrue’.
A spokesman for Defoe has declined to comment. In her final words to her friend, Laura confessed how bad she felt about the incident: ‘You can see girls in Newcastle clubs week after week with different footballers and I think, ‘You are so stupid’. Now I’m the stupid one’.
