How World Cup hero Bobby Moore’s widow found new love

HISTORY has repeated itself for the beguiling Stephanie Parlane-Moore, the second wife of 1966 World Cup hero Bobby Moore. ITV’s new three-part drama on Moore, which started last night, chronicles how Stephanie began an affair with the former England captain five years before his marriage to teenage sweetheart Tina broke down.

Stephanie, a former British Airways stewardess, said it was ‘love at first sight’ when she met the dashing footballer in 1979, and the pair remained together until Bobby’s death from liver and bowel cancer aged 51.

Now I hear Stephanie, 67, has found love again — with another married man. In a romantic game of two halves, she began a relationship with civil engineer Brian Zeederberg while he was still married to wife Renee, although they had become estranged.

To complicate the entanglement, Brian and Renee lived in the same development as Stephanie in Putney, South-West London, at the time.

Renee confirms she separated from Brian in September 2011, and that she is no longer in contact with her ex-husband.

The Zeederbergs’ divorce was finalised two months ago.

ITV’s drama, Tina & Bobby, focuses on the doomed marriage between football’s first golden couple, which ended after 22 years in 1984, due to Moore’s infidelity.

Tina Moore is played by Michelle Keegan, whose husband, reality TV star Mark Wright, was previously a semi-professional footballer.

It details how glamorous Tina — the original WAG — was so devastated by being left for another woman she wrote letters to her errant husband as a way to make him understand the pain she was going through.

After Bobby’s death in 1993, Tina moved to Miami and built up a successful career in property.

Stephanie married Bobby two years before he died, and went on to raise more than £20 million for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK.

A friend of Stephanie’s says: ‘Stephanie was genuinely very much in love with Bobby and found it difficult to recover from his death.

‘I don’t think she ever did really get over it.

‘She did a lot for Bobby’s charity. But it seems, in some respects, as if history is repeating itself.’