STEVEN GERRARD’S former Wag Jennifer Ellison has opened up about going out with the England icon.
The actress dated the Liverpool and Three Lions legend in 2002, before she and pal Alex Curran ended up trading boyfriends.
Former Brookside star Jennifer landed Tony Richardson, who would go on to abuse her over the course of their relationship.
Now speaking on James English’ Anything Goes podcast, Jennifer has opened up about her time with the ex-Reds captain.
She said: “When I first started going out with Steven everyone around me was just going on and going mad, saying he’s a new big signing, he’s the new big thing.
“But to me he was just Steven. I’d never followed football, and I also supported Everton!
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“The biggest lesson I’ve learned in life is that you can look up someone and think that because they’ve got material things they’re like they’re flying high and they’re happy.
“It means absolutely nothing and there’s nothing that you can buy now that you’ll give a shit about in ten years.
“Your happiness, it’s just invaluable. When I was driving my Bentley and dripping in diamonds and everything, and I was fucking miserable.”
Jennifer has previously told how she is happy things worked out for the best with Gerrard and doesn’t envy Alex’s lifestyle of leisure.
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She said: “It was never an option for me to end up as just a WAG – I always knew I would have a career.
“I have always wanted to be madly in love and me and Steven just weren’t so that was that.
“Even if we had stayed together, I would have worked and had my own career and life.
“I would definitely have wanted to do my own thing.”
Jennifer Ellison turned down six-figure Playboy payday
Jennifer Ellison has revealed she turned down an eye-watering six-figure cheque to pose naked for Playboy.
She was offered such a high sum because she was one of the biggest TV stars in the noughties.
Jennifer is best known for her role in the soap Brookside, where she played Emily Shadwick.
She also appeared in The Phantom of the Opera in 2004, The Cottage in 2008, and Hotel Babylon in 2006.
She was regularly on the covers of magazines, including the now defunct Zoo and FHM.
Speaking on the appeared on the Anything Goes With James English podcast, she said: “I did turn down Playboy for nearly half a million because I just thought, ‘if I ever have little boys’ – and I’m so glad that I turned it down because the Internet’s crazy now.
“Even when they’re playing rugby, they’ll go, ‘you’re mum this or that’.
“Because they’ve seen me in the mens mags, not now, but obviously they’ve had a little google, so if there was anything like that out now, I would’ve been mortified.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
