A BEAUTY clinic owner who had an affair with Thomas Skinner has branded the former Apprentice star a “liar and a cheat”.
Amy-Lucy O’Rourke, 35, claimed married Skinner told her she was the “love of his life” during a three-month fling.
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In a tearful interview with The Sun on Sunday, Skinner, 34, had previously claimed the affair was a “two-week fling”.
He admitted guilt took over after he slept with O’Rourke, with the fling happening shortly after his May 2022 wedding to Sinead.
The businessman said his family means everything and he will never forget the heartbreaking moment he told his wife he’d “f***ed up”.
But aesthetician O’Rourke has since spoken out on their relationship, claiming “cruel” Skinner told her she was the “love of his life”.
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She told the Daily Mail: “We were originally friends but with his sweet-talking and his lies, he made me believe we were in love.
“He would stand in the mirror with me and say, ‘Look, we’ll be Mr and Mrs Skinner’. That is actually traumatising to me.
“You don’t say that to someone when you’re already happily married. I fell in love with him, but Thomas is nothing but a liar and a cheat.”
She explained the pair had initially met through friends and he had started messaging her before he married Sinead.
O’Rourke claimed their relationship became romantic when Skinner started receiving body sculpting treatment from her.
Skinner would become aroused during appointments and had flowers delivered to her clinic, O’Rourke said.
And in the following weeks, he would treat her to fancy dinners and made O’Rourke feel like they were in a “love bubble”.
The proud East Londoner has recently said the fling was a “moment of madness”.
Skinner continued: “I felt so guilty – I told my wife. I let her down in that brief moment of madness where I wasn’t thinking.
“My wife is the best thing that’s ever happened. I’m so lucky she forgave me. It was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do. It was terrible.
“I’m a very, very open book and I don’t hide anything from my wife. She was obviously distraught, upset.
“When I told my wife, I fully understood if she was to never speak to me again. No one else made me do what I’ve done.
“But it just shows something so brief could ruin your life.”
O’Rourke also claimed that Skinner introduced her as his girlfriend and told her he had ended things with Sinead.
But his lies caught up with him during a dinner out in central London, when she spotted a picture of the pair together at a wedding.
Thomas’s wife, who he calls Super Sensible Sinead, has been at his side throughout the ups and downs.
He added: “We’re stronger than ever. But that part in our relationship, in our journey was a very, very dark time.
“My wife didn’t ever deserve that. She’s such a good person, like, without her I wouldn’t be where I am today. She made me.
“I’m an idiot for doing that. My wife is my rock. She’s the person I adore more than anything in the world. And I let her down.”
Skinner worked part-time as a market trader at 13 after being expelled from school.
He founded several businesses before starring on BBC’s The Apprentice in 2019 after Sinead encouraged him to apply.
His rise to fame has seen him appear on Celebrity MasterChef, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.
But he is also known for his motivational videos where he shares his love of kebabs and pints.
His conservative political views led to US Vice President JD Vance inviting him to a barbecue in the Cotswolds last month.
The American politician reached out to him after seeing his social media posts saying he admired his positive attitude for life.
And he invited him to the barbecue of the summer at 18th-century Dean Manor near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds.
But after the market stall holder proudly posted a photo of them together on social media, he received a shocking backlash.
He said: “Since I posted that picture I’ve had loads of death threats.
“People saying they want me dead, I didn’t see it as anything more than a barbecue, if I’m honest with you.
“I was thinking, what have I ever done? What have I ever said that’s controversial?
“When you actually go through my tweets, apart from saying that knife crime is bad in London?
“But I’ve been turned into this political figure that I’m actually not.”
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