Jilted fiance's plea to get Jesse Wallace back

Jilted fiance's plea to get Jesse Wallace back
Jilted fiance's plea to get Jesse Wallace back (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Jessie Wallace's former fiance Vince Morse has reportedly admitted his 'sordid sex fantasies' wrecked the couple's relationship, but he desperately wants her back. The EastEnders star called off their wedding at the last minute on Monday after the 50-year-old catering boss admitted sending an explicit picture of the 39-year-old actress to his ex-girlfriend. The Sun quotes Vince as telling a friend he was 'drunk' and 'showing off' when he sent the topless picture to his ex-girlfriend Karen Short to lure her into a threesome with fiancee Jessie. He's reported to have confessed: "It looks like it's destroyed the love of my life. It was probably the most stupid thing I've ever done. I'm an idiot. My sordid sex fantasies have ruined my life." The Sun says the couple spoke on Wednesday night - the first time since she cancelled their wedding at an upmarket venue in Richmond, south west London. It appears the actress who plays EastEnders' Kat Moon had also cancelled a holiday to Greece that was supposed to be their honeymoon. Jessie, who has been engaged twice in the past, has previously told how she fell in love with Vince on their second date, telling OK! magazine: "I wasn't looking for a relationship, but then I found the love of my life". After Jessie, mum to Tallulah, six, confronted her fiance on Sunday morning about the picture, hotel guests heard her screaming on the eve of her planned wedding. One was quoted as saying: "I've never heard anything like it. She was wailing in grief, then growling in rage. She kept screaming 'How could he humiliate me like this? How could he do it?' ... She was a woman in pieces." The guest added: "EastEnders couldn't have written a better script." The wedding, with 350 guests and a magazine deal, was due to take place at Pembroke Lodge in Richmond. Staff packed away champagne worth £18,000, and took away flowers worth £3,500, while an Elvis Presley singer was also cancelled. As many of the guests as possible were called but some, including Lacey Turner (who played EastEnders' Stacey Branning), arrived at the venue.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.