He insisted it was just a one-off, that he felt so guilty and that it was a ‘brief moment of madness’.
Apprentice star Thomas Skinner, who cheated on his wife Sinead, added that he ‘wasn’t thinking’ when he enjoyed a romance with aesthetics clinician Amy-Lucy O’Rourke just weeks after he got married.
But the Daily Mail can reveal Amy-Lucy’s claims that Thomas had spent months serenading her as he enjoyed a full on relationship with her behind Sinead’s back.
And I have seen the receipts. Today, I can reveal the timeline of their romance, which hugely contrasts the Strictly star’s claim that he only met Amy-Lucy once.
I’m told that the pair began messaging on May 13 – just eight days before he married Sinead – and went right though until July 7.
They were at that point just friends, with Amy-Lucy asking him about his work commitments. He later sent her flowers to thank her for treating him at her clinic – and then married Sinead on May 21, 2022.
And indeed, on June 20, less than a month after Thomas’s nuptials, the pair were FaceTiming one another. There was also communication the next day and they met up in the evening once she had finished her appointments at her clinic.
Amy-Lucy said: ‘We were messaging one another all of the time. There were also late night calls and often he would be with me.’
Amy-Lucy O’Rourke had a relationship with married Strictly Come Dancing contestant Thomas Skinner
Skinner and Amy-Lucy’s affair went on for almost three months, with eye-wateringly explicit messages revealing the full extent of their relationship
By July, their communications started to become eye-wateringly explicit as they began to tell one another how in love they were. During their relationship, Thomas would refer to Amy-Lucy as ‘the duchess’ and would tell her that she is ‘beautiful’.
Thomas and Amy-Lucy would also go to the West End of London together in July and he would go to Waitrose to buy the ingredients to make a chilli con carne for her, she tells me.
He also helped Amy-Lucy, who is a single mother to her young son from a previous relationship, with her car which he even picked up from the garage for her after taking it for some work there.
‘He also told me that he was relaxed with me and that he had never been like that with anyone before.
‘He invited me on a work trip to Belfast and would tell me that I was his.’
All of this, despite father-of-three Thomas carving a reputation for himself as a family man.
I can also reveal that Thomas appeared to adore Amy-Lucy so much that when he heard rumours that she may have been dating other men whom they both knew, he became jealous.
Amy-Lucy tells me that he said he would ‘punch them all’, though she assured him that he was the only man that she was interested in.
Skinner married Sinead on May 21, 2022. Less than a month after the wedding, Skinner and Amy-Lucy were FaceTiming one another
Skinner is due to appear on Strictly Come Dancing when the new series starts on Saturday
Apparently Thomas would regularly tell her that he loved her, and she would say she loved him too.
After meeting through friends some years ago, he and Amy-Lucy’s relationship grew romantic when he visited her clinic for a body sculpting treatment, which he said he would post about on social media.
Thomas first revealed he had cheated on wife Sinead on Sunday in an interview with The Sun. Amy-Lucy says that he described a toned down version of their romance.
He said: ‘It was the one time, it was a mistake. I woke up feeling absolutely terrible about it.
‘I felt so guilty, I told my wife. I let her down in that brief moment of madness where I wasn’t thinking, where I didn’t appreciate what I had.’
His comments left Amy-Lucy incensed. In fact, she had also spent time at his shop in the Lakeside shopping centre in Essex, enjoyed a date at the lavish Sushi Samba restaurant in East London and also visited his favourite haunt, Little Italy in Soho.
And yesterday I revealed that Thomas became aggressive Amy-Lucy after she discovered that his marriage to wife Sinead was not the sham he had told her it was – and confronted her about it.
In July 2022, Amy-Lucy finished the romance after nearly three months. In highly unpleasant footage taken from her Ring doorbell at her house near Brentwood in Essex, Thomas turned up at her door and demanded she spoke to him.
He can be seen outside her home for a minute and a half despite her making it clear that she doesn’t want to talk. He also appears to try to push his way into her property but she stops him.
His appearance at her home prompted her to then smash the windscreen of his Mercedes 4×4 which was parked outside.
He also sent her a barrage of aggressive text messages where he called her a ‘crazy lady’ and referred to her as ‘insane’ after she told him she had ended the relationship.
Speaking of the effect the romance had on her, Amy-Lucy told the Daily Mail: ‘This went on over months and has had a lasting effect on me. When I learned what he was really like his true colours came out.
‘He was awful and everyone needs to know it. It went on for almost three months. He’s a liar.’
