Amy Willerton has discussed her brief romance with her I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! campmate Joey Essex.
The pair grew close during their time on the ITV show and were reported to have continued their relationship after leaving the jungle, with Willerton admitting that the couple had shared a kiss.
The model has now revealed that the pair decided that they would be better off as friends after they feared that the media attention on their relationship would turn them into the "next Katie Price and Peter Andre".
"I want a real, normal relationship where everything happens naturally and you are just allowed to be," Willerton told The Sun.
"I didn't want to be the next Katie Price and Peter Andre. And I gradually realised that could never happen for us."
Willerton explained that her romance with the TOWIE star developed in Australia, after they had been voted out of the jungle.
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She said: "Joey changed when we left the jungle. He was more of a man than a boy, and I was like 'wow'.
"We spent the rest of the time in Australia engulfed in each other. We kissed for the first time in his bedroom after the show wrap party and we spent the night together."
The 21-year-old revealed that the relationship broke down when the pair returned to the UK.
"Back in London, everything started to fall apart.
"Before we left, it felt very boy-meets-girl, but reality hit and suddenly there was all this pressure on us.
"It felt like if we were going to be together, we had to be committed to the relationship, because we'd be presented to the world as the Joey and Amy show."
The pair eventually decided to go their separate ways after the model discussed her worries with Essex during a phone conversation.
Willerton admitted: "I did cry after the phone call, because we do have feelings for each other and I think, had the situation been different, we could have had something amazing."
Essex's former fiancée Sam Faiers has previously suggested that her ex-boyfriend's relationship with Willerton was a publicity stunt.
"I don't believe it," Faiers said. "Amy said in an interview last week that she sees him as a 'little brother' but then he said they had 'sexual chemistry'.
"Can you have sexual chemistry with a big sister? I don't understand that one!"
