Not exactly having a ball
Celebrity chef John Burton Race seems to be more fond of women than ever. Despite having a girlfriend – his former mistress who bore his love child – he has been spotted on an intimate outing with a female friend.
Celebrity chef John Burton Race seems to be more fond of women than ever. Despite having a girlfriend – his former mistress who bore his love child – he has been spotted on an intimate outing with a female friend. He says they’re just friend. To the casual observer, they might have appeared in the first flush of romance. The pair held hands as they looked at houses in Richmond Green, West London. The woman then drove Burton Race in her silver Porsche to a cosy lunch at an inn in a Surrey village. Afterwards, the chef, 52, picked a bunch of irises from a hedgerow and handed them to her. And he put his arm around her as they visited a Porsche showroom. However, Burton Race insists that he is just friends with the woman, company director Claire Sumner, 43. The chef, a former contestant on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!, says that his girlfriend Suzi Ward, 45, was aware that he was meeting Miss Sumner last week. He said: ‘Claire Sumner is romantically involved with someone else. I am not romantically involved with her. I am not denying that I may have held her hand once or twice. Holding hands has nothing to do with being romantically involved. ‘I am not a married man anyway and I should be allowed to do what I want. ‘Suzi, my girlfriend, will corroborate that she was well aware that I was with this woman.’ In 2007, Burton Race left his second wife Kim, their two children and her four daughters from a previous marriage, to live with Miss Ward. She had already born him a son, now five. His subsequent divorce and bankruptcy cost him, he claimed, more than £3million.
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