The Apprentice winner Yasmina Siadatan has finally lifted the lid on her love-life and revealed that she met her sweetheart when she was just four years old.
Yasmina lived on the same street in Reading, Berkshire as her boyfriend Jack Patey, 27.
The families moved away, but in a a stunning coincidence when they up sticks again, they ended up living on the same street, aged 11, and their relationship grew out of a close friendship.
Your hired: The Apprentice Winner Yasmina Siadatan with her boyfriend Jack Patey, who she has been dating for around 10 years
'I’ve always loved him. We were best mates as teenagers and I was infatuated with him. He was the cool one. He played guitar and looked really hot.', she told Hello! magazine.'And yeah, I wanted to make him mine. It took a few years of me just pretending to be his friend and then he finally crumbled when we were 18.'
Even then, her gritty personality shone through.
Yasmina recalled: 'I gave him an ultimatum. I said, "Either you tell me you love me or we can never be friends again." He said, "I love you."'
The couple have dated - 'apart from a few breaks for university and stuff' - for around ten years and say they are part of each other’s families.
Yasmina, 27, denies she was keeping her love life a secret while on the BBC show.
'I wasn’t keeping it a secret. It’s just that The Apprentice is a business show.'
Finalists: Yasmina and Kate Walsh, who she denies having a fierce rivalry with
Yasmina - known as Mina to close friends - had an unusual upbringing. Her English mother Paula and Iranian father dad Medi had three children together but divorced after ten years of marriage.
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Both her parents remarried and Paula had a further three children. Muslim Medi, who now lives in the Middle East, has three wives and nine children.Yasmina added: 'I had to deal with that situation from a young age, so nothing fazes me. I feel privileged that I got such close experiences of a different society.'
Jack, who also runs his own company, was convinced Yasmina would win.
He said: 'From the day Yasmina told me she was applying, I knew that she’d win. Absolutely.
'Knowing her like I do, and having watched the show, it would have been a travesty, in my opinion, if she hadn’t won.”
Yasmina added: 'When I first met all the other candidates, I thought, "Yeah, I’m in with a good chance."'
She also dismissed suggestions that she and runner-up Kate Walsh were fierce rivals.
'We’re extremely good friends, ridiculously so. I’ve got a lot of respect for her. We have this thing called the Monday night club, when we get together and do something fun.
'She has been adorable to me - I don’t know if I’d have reacted as well if I’d been in her position.'
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