Potter rogue Tom sent ex crazy with his ‘love’ for co-star Emma
AS HARRY Potter bully Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton was the perfect Hollywood villain. And now it seems the actor may have been something of a naughty boy in real life, too.
His now ex-girlfriend Jade Gordon long suspected that her partner’s close friendship with co-star Emma Watson masked a deeper attraction between the two. But Tom always claimed he loved Emma ‘like a sister’.
Friends of Jade – who was with Tom between 2008 and 2016 – say she was left to feel ‘crazy’ and intimidated at film premieres, as it was pretty obvious to her that Emma once had strong feelings for her man.
And now the truth appears to be coming out, as Tom talks about his memoir, in which he gushes about his ‘spark’ with Emma. In his 304-page memoir Beyond The Wand, Tom, 35, writes: ‘My girlfriend at the time knew straight away that there was something unspoken between us. I remember using the familiar old
line, “I love her like a sister.” But there was more to it than that. I’ve always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way people might want to hear.
‘That isn’t to say that there’s never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times.’
And in the foreword to the memoir, Emma, 32, describes Felton as ‘a little piece of my soul’. She says: ‘It’s one of the purest loves I can think of.’ Jade, now married and a mum, declined to comment.