Skinny dipping, Greek God snogs & dating disasters – A Place In The Sun Danni Menzies on what REALLY happened filming
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In the latest episode of Fabulous' brand new vodcast, Date. Delete. Repeat, Danni and co-host Alex Serruys chatted all things holiday romances.
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"I've [recently] been in Mallorca and Greece - jetsetter!" Alex bragged, and this seemed to surprise Danni: "Have you? How have I missed that, considering you put everything on Instagram!"
"Jet setting around trying to find a husband," Alex joked.
"Did you find a Greek God?" Danni asked and her co-host replied: "No, I didn't find a Greek God.
"The way I describe it, is that they're [Greek men] on the cusp of being Gods, they just can't…they're not over the hill."
Danni didn't agree: "Really? I find Greek men super attractive - I've definitely snogged loads of them.
"That's why I go to Greece a lot …that's why I spent a lot of time filming there," she joked. "No, but they're fit, nice dark features …"
"Yes they are, but there's still something missing for me," Alex remarked.
As for whether she had any holiday romances on her recent trips, she said "just friendships".
Mallorca, Greece, next up was Croatia.
Danni wondered: "Have you ever been to Hvar in Croatia? Havar, you'd love it, it's like a little party island and everybody seems to be fit there."
Recalling one summer when she went to Hvar with her younger sister, Danni said: "We went to a beach club, and I remember walking in, and turning around and looking at my sister's face, and my sister's face was [mouth open, jaw dropped].
"I asked her, 'What is it?' And she replied, 'everyone is so fit'.
"[I] started chatting to these guys, and I just couldn't see anybody that I would be that bothered about. I went to the bar to get a drink, and I turned around and this Adonis was standing behind me.
"He actually looked like a Greek God, really muscular, dark features, big beard. So I asked, 'Do you want to go skinny dipping?'"
He was the one who ended up getting with my sister's mate!
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"Your opening line was 'Do you want to go skinny dipping?'" Alex asked. "Basically, 'I want to see you naked right now."
"We went skinny dipping and had a snog quite quickly. I ended up dating him for a year - do you know the worse bit of this? I didn't ask his age - he was so hairy, I just assumed he was my age.
"He was a lot younger - I think he was nine years younger than me. He also worked internationally, he was a watch dealer, so he was catching flights everywhere. So he'd just fly out to wherever I was filming.
"What happened? Where is he now?" Alex wondered.
Danni revealed: "He didn't manifest.... he was the one who ended up getting with my sister's mate. So I probably should've seen that coming considering the age gap."
Why did Danni leave A Place In The Sun?
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Danni presented on Channel 4's A Place In The Sun for nearly six years and left in 2022 to explore other opportunities closer to home.
She explained that "travelling as much as I did, I found it hard to establish relationships".
"Also, six years in the same job, travelling loads, it was such an amazing experience, went to lots of great places, met lots of great people," she added.
"I was very much in my comfort zone and now I'm very much out of my comfort zone and it makes you feel a little bit more alive to be honest."
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