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Jasmine Allday

I'm A Celeb fans envious as David Ginola shares heartwarming story of how he met girlfriend

David Ginola left I'm A Celebrity fans feeling a mix of happiness and envy as he revealed how he met his girlfriend Maeva Denat.

The football legend met his partner Maeva on the day he nearly died - after suffering a heart attack on the pitch whilst playing in a charity football match - and the pair have been together ever since.

Fans couldn't help but gush over the pair's meeting as David recounted how it was love at first sight for the couple, who crossed paths when David had his devastating medical emergency.

"I met my girlfriend the day I died. We’ve been together six years," he began.

David met Maeva in 2016 (Getty Images)
It was the same day David had his near-fatal heart attack (Getty Images for Cybex)

"She called me in the morning and she said, ‘Did you have a good sleep?’ I said, ‘Very few hours, but it was fine.’ In the afternoon, I died on the football pitch."

David went on to explain in the Telegraph how his "life changed" on that fateful day in 2016 - as he admitted he could have never had his "special relationship" with Maeva if he had died that day.

He added: "One minute I met an amazing woman, and then my life changed. If the doctors hadn’t saved me, then I could never have had the special relationship that I have now."

David left fans envious as he revealed how he met his girlfriend (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Maeva had sent David a message to tell him she was worried, but he didn't read it for two weeks.

"I didn’t have my phone with me. After two weeks, I had my phone back and I had a message, I had flashes. I remembered this brunette, but I couldn’t see the face, couldn’t remember everything," he said.

"I had this message say, ‘David, how are you, I’m worried blah blah blah."

Danny Miller loved listening to David tell the story (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

He added: "My girlfriend probably didn’t know what to think, she didn’t see me for ages after we first met, maybe she thought I wasn’t interested, but actually I had been recovering in hospital."

Danny Miller - who confessed he has a huge man crush on David - was thrilled to hear the story.

The Emmerdale star said in The Telegraph: "It was love at first sight and in fact he actually had love at second sight as he couldn’t remember what she looked like.

"You’d watch that in a film and you’d go, 'That was a great film, but it can’t be true.’ It’s what dreams are made of."

As David admitted: "You meet this girl and in the afternoon you died, it’s crazy."

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