Calum Best, 44, reveals he was rejected for the 'first time' after finally thinking he found 'the one' as 'humbled' reality TV love rat opens up on secret failed heartbreak

Daily Mail​

16-07-2025

Calum Best has opened up on a secret heartbreak after he was rejected for the 'first time' from a girl he thought was going to be 'the one'.
The son of legendary late footballer George Best, 44, candidly discussed the failed relationship on the latest episode of Rylan: How to Be in Love.
After finally finding what he thought was going to be his forever partner, Calum said he was truly 'humbled' when she walked away from their relationship.
Speaking to host Rylan Clark, Calum said it was the first time he outwardly said 'I love you' and even discussed starting a family.
He said: 'I was humbled for the first time… I met a girl last year and for the first time in my 44 years that I felt this, ahh this is what I've been looking for, this feeling that I haven't had before.
'It was the first time I outwardly said 'I love you' and we spoke about having a kid, we spoke about having a family...
'And then I go, yes, this could be it! And then she thought different. And I went, wow, that has humbled me sincerely.'
Calum's rollercoaster love life was never far from the headlines, with Calum dating names including Sarah Harding, Bianca Gascoigne and even Lindsay Lohan.
Now a self-confessed fitness fanatic, the heavily tattooed TV personality has also featured on Celebs Go Dating, Celebrity Ex On The Beach and SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Calum endured a turbulent childhood as the son of late footballer George, given the sportsman's well-publicised battle with alcoholism.
In a 2017 interview, he revealed the details surrounding his father's relapse following a liver transplant.
It happened in 2002, following his assurance that he was cured of his addiction to drink, and Calum caught him himself while the Best family were away on holiday.
Speaking about the time he walked in on the late Manchester United player, Calum said: 'I knew he had just swigged from this bottle. And it was like f**k! It ended right there. I wanted to give up then totally.
'From then on it was just back to drinking. And he drank and drank until it ended. I remember leaving that trip so confused and upset and distraught.'
Calum endured a turbulent childhood as the son of late footballer George, given the sportsman's well-publicised battle with alcoholism
Talking about how this set Calum himself on a downward spiral, the current CBB star said: 'I came back and snorted and drank and s***ged my way through everything.'
George's battle with alcoholism finally took his life in 2005, which sent Calum into a tailspin of self destruction and grief.
It was during this time that Calum was also a contestant on Celebrity Love Island, and won the second series with Bianca Gascoigne.
Despite their winning title, the pair split up shortly after their stint on the dating series.
Calum had already earned a reputation for his rollercoaster love life, having dated Girls Aloud star Sarah back in 2005.
In 2006, he enjoyed a brief romance with Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly, but their relationship quickly fizzled out.
Later in 2006, Calum was given the chance to brush with some of Hollywood's finest, as he started dating actress Lindsay Lohan, at the height of her Mean Girls success.
However, things took a turn when Calum confessed Lindsay dumped him after becoming fed up with his attempts to flirt with other women, and he wrote in his memoir: 'The two of us together are combustible. At this moment in our lives, we're both a bit nuts.
'We both like to party a lot and it makes things tempestuous.'
Calum also had a short-lived romance with glamour model Georgia Salpa in 2011, and in 2016 he was rumoured to be dating TOWIE star Chloe Sims.
They both kept quiet about the romance rumours at the time, but Chloe later referred to Calum as her 'ex' in an interview with The Daily Star.
Later that year, Calum appeared on US dating show Famously Single and struck up a relationship with fellow reality star Brandi Glanville, but their romance ended after a fiery row which featured on screen.
In the midst of his long list of famous girlfriends, Calum has also been accused of fathering a love child, after Lorna Hogan, 33, fell pregnant the day before the memorial of his father George Best.
In 2015, Lorna claimed that Calum had refused to take a paternity test, and claimed he 'abandoned' his daughter Amelia.
She told The Mirror: 'All she can say is that she doesn't know him and he doesn't want anything to do with her - it's heartbreaking.'
She went onto claim that a DNA test was later planned through Calum's mother Angie, but says he failed to attend.
In 2017, Calum hit back at these claims in a response to a fan on X, writing: 'Did a paternity test to clear the child wasn't mine bless.'
George's own struggles with alcoholism would haunt Calum who described how he would feel, 'demonic anger,' because of his father's drinking.
Indeed in 2007 his own life started to fall apart as he spiraled out of control, suffering alcohol and drug addiction.
Calum said at the time: 'I'm a bad boy. I go out and get drunk, I get high on cocaine and I do stupid debauched things with the wrong women.
'I've been sowing my oats for years, and I've been doing drugs for the past six years. I do drink too much and it gets out of control.
'The drink leads to the coke and the coke leads to debauchery - the wrong people and places. When I'm high I do wild, stupid s**t. I'm a red-blooded male and I'm addicted to sex.
'I don't have to be like Dad, but I feel his blood running through my veins. I need to sort out my problems before it's too late.'