I know Emmy wanted me to meet someone
dad.” During Jenna’s separation from her husband, she lost a friend to suicide and a very close friend to cancer. “It’s something I lived through first hand,” Jenna says. “We were just in a really similar situation.” Jenna and Jake began messaging back and forth and arranged a business lunch in London just before Christmas. Jenna said: “We went into that business lunch with professional heads on but the conversations were informal from the get-go. Our pasts were linked. We came away feeling things maybe we shouldn’t have been feeling. “I felt like I’d known Jake my whole life. “Jake is not defined by his past in the same way I’m not defined by mine.
“There was an obvious connection between us and you have to open your heart to love again. In honour of those who can’t live a life, I know I have a responsibility to make every day count.”
Jake said he felt an instant attraction to Jenna and for the first time he could see himself moving forward.
He said: “I absolutely had no intention of meeting anybody at that time.
“It was the most unexpected thing. I was just trying to keep my head straight and focused and it was the last thing on my mind.
“She walked out of Covent Garden Tube stop and she was all smiles. I fancied her a lot quite quickly.
“I didn’t even know I was ready for another relationship until I met Jenna. No one was more surprised than me.
“Jenna and Charlie played a huge part in helping me out of a dark place.
“They brought the sun-shine back
She walked out of Covent Garden Tube and she was all smiles. I fancied her a lot JAKE COATES ON HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND JENNA ELSBY