Denise van Outen’s lover was left with his tail between his legs after dishing up a Valentine’s Day dinner in a dog bowl.
Eddie Boxshall sent TV presenter Denise, 46, barking mad with his own presentation skills.
And the avid social media fan was so aghast she could not even bear to share a snap of the sushi with her 540,000 Instagram followers.
She fumed: “I can’t take a picture of this, it looks disgusting.”
Denise said of the meal: “It looked like it’d been taken out of the bin. He’d laid it out nicely – but in a dog bowl.”
She added: “When I sat at the table, he brought out… I’ve never seen such a mismatch, a mix of bowls and plates.
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“I don’t even know which cupboard he got it from.
“One of the bowls had a chip in it, another one – get this – we used to put the dog food in to feed Tilly, our French bulldog, when she was a puppy.
“So we had an argument. We’ve only ever had two big arguments. That being one of them, very recently.”
Denise says Eddie, 46, had insisted he lay the table for their romantic meal.
She revealed in an interview: “I’d taken out of the cupboard a really nice dinner set that’s for special occasions.
“So I said, Eddie, we’ve got really nice plates… we’d ordered some sushi because we thought, let’s treat ourselves for Valentine’s Day. I went out to work, came back, and he’s like, ‘Don’t come in babe, leave it to me’.”
She told Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast: “I wanted to take a picture of us.
“Every single couple I know was posting nice romantic pictures. I saw Rochelle and Marvin Humes do it. It looked like a lovely Valentine’s meal.”
The couple, together seven years, are able to laugh about it now.
Denise – who has daughter Betsy, 10, with her ex Lee Mead – got another Frenchie called Remy last November.
The former Big Breakfast host was forced to pull out of this year’s Dancing on Ice after breaking her shoulder and may need further surgery.
