2008-06-xx OK Magazine - Heidi & Dave
“LOOKING LOVED-UP ON THEIR FIRST SHOOT TOGETHER”
HEIDI RANGE AND DAVE BERRY. THE SUGABABE AND HER PRESENTER BEAU FILL US IN ON THEIR NEW HOME, WEDDING PLANS AND BABY NAMES!”
You expect the honeymoon stage of any relationship to die down eventually, but that is far from the case when it comes to Sugababe Heidi Range and her TV presenter beau Dave Berry. The Liverpool lovely and her cheeky chappy from South-East London first met back in October 2003, and have been inseperable ever since.
Having recently moved into their plush South-West London pad, they are now living in domestic bliss. But the burning question is - is this just a long term fling or the real thing? Well, it seems to be the latter as, in between shots on our exclusive photoshoot, Heidi, 25, was either slipping her arm around Dave’s waist, or Dave, 29, was going in for a kiss - the pair are clearly smitten.
Here, they show us their life is all plain sailing in their first ever shoot together as they pose on a boat on the River Thames. After a long day, we sat down for a chinwag about how the pair fell in love, baby names and proposals…
The last time we saw you two, Fern Britton was trying to persuade you to get engaged! Did you feel any pressure, Dave?
D: Yes, I would love Heidi to be my wife one day, Im just trying to do things in the correct order and unfortunately buying a house has taken about 18 months! When I do it I hope to only ever have to do it once, so by that rationale I have to do it properly. But when that day comes - sorry, if that day comes - its going to be the best day of your goddamn life!
H: If I say yes!
D: You will!
How will you do it?
D: A lot of celebrity couples do everything so early. I thought about proposing straight away, but Im glad we havent fallen for that. Is that really unromantic?
H: No, it would be unromantic if you were saying: “I have to think about it and now I dont want to move in with her, Im off!”
Heidi, would you ever propose?
H: No, its brilliant girls proposing but Im more traditional. He’d say no though.
D: Ask me. Lets try it out.
H: No!
D: Propose to me now!
H: No!
How would you like him to propose to you, Heidi?
H: I just want it to be a surprise and definetly for him to go down on one knee. With my parents’ permission.
D: And in my new Prada suit!
What sort of wedding would you have?
H: I want a traditional white wedding in a church filled with candles, flowers and fairy lights. Maybe in the Lake District in Winter.
What about your first dance?
D: Frank Sinatra, because when we first met we went to New York and coincidentally we both bought each other Frank Sinatra’s greatest hits because it had New York, New York on it.
H: When we went to Holly Willoughby’s wedding they had a Frank Sinatra impersonator and we were like: “They’ve stolen our wedding!”
D: Yeah, they had everything we wanted! It was an amazing day and we carried on afterwards by getting smashed with Liam Gallagher, Nicole Appleton, Emma Griffiths, Matt Willis, Tamzin Outhwaite and Tom Ellis.
You’re friends with Cheryl and Ashley Cole - are you worried about their recent stuff happening to you?
D: What, me sleeping with a s**g from Chinawhite? Sorry Ash, but what were you thinking? You’re one of the most famous footballers and married to the fit one from Girls Aloud - you cant dingle your dangle anywhere else mate, thats the end of it for you!
H: I dont know anything about their relationship, but we went to the wedding. Im not best friends with Cheryl but I just hope that they’re happy and sort things out.
D: You’re absolutely right, babe, whatever they decide I hope it all works out for them.
Do either of you get jealous?
D: Its probably blind arrogance but Im kind of confident enough in my own abilites that Heidi doesnt have to go looking elsewhere! [Dave looks to the sky with his fingers firmly crossed!]
H: One of the things that makes our relationship work is that we trust each toher and we dont get jealous.
D: Yes you are, I’ve seen you claw into girls all the time!
H: It was funny, in a club once the waitress came and started chatting him up. It would be awful to be panicking about your boyfriend being with someone else every time he goes out. Im more worried about Dave putting his seatbelt on in the cab home or walking home and running into a gang!
Dave, are you quite romantic?
D: Nothing says romance like food poisoning! So I intend to cook her my first three course meal in our new home!
H: Daves so romantic. I once got back to my flat to find my living room floor covered in Post-it notes in the shape of a heart. And he left one on the front door saying “I love you” and everyone in my apartment block walked past and saw, so he was panicking!
D: I live a very minimal existance and have nothing in my fridge apart from a few Stellas and a jar of chillis, so Heidi always turns up with a nice bottle of wine and my favourite cakes and crisps.
H: And Dave always puts my pyjamas on the radiator.
You’ve been together for five years, have you hit any icebergs?
H: Dave’s really tidy and Im not. I love all the domestic stuff but I hate ironing. But Daves promised he’ll do that.
D: I hate living in a mess. Heidi lives out of a suitcase so our living room in our beautiful three-bedroom Georgian house will be full of bras, knickers, shoes that dont match and make-up brushes! It’ll tip me over the edge!
How did you first get together?
D: I did a show on MTV called TRL and the Sugababes came on
H: Thats not when we first met…
D: No, but lets pick the story up here because its nicer!
H: Dave interviewed us on the red carpet and I’d always fancied him. Then we were at a party and Keisha [Buchanan, one of Heidis fellow Sugababes] knew I like hime and she went over and asked him if he was single or not.
D: Yeah, I was hosting a gig and the Sugababes were performing and thats when we first properly got to meet, I interviewed her in a little room backstage while we were playing pool.
Did you fancy her straight away?
D: Course, shes the fit blonde one from the Sugababes! At the party, Keisha came up to me seductively and said: “Hi Dave, I just wondered if you were single?” And I though, f***ing hell, Keisha from the Sugababes is coming on to me! At the time though, I had a girlfriend so I said: “Im flattered darling, thanks for the offer but Im already in a relationship” Then she told me she was asking on behalf of Heidi, so I dumped my girlfriend and the rest is history! Joking! Seriously though, about 5 months later the Sugababes came on TRL to promote their single Hole In The Head and I was single then. Then Heidi got my number from someone at MTV.
H: No! He offered me his number so I waited a few weeks and then texted him. It took me two hours to decide what to write with my sister - I didnt want to sound too keen!
D: It was all in capital letters: “HELLO, ITS HEIDI HERE, FROM SUGABABES.” I was like, bloody hell, shes agressive, shes got spirit. I like that in a woman.
H: Then he phoned me straight away.
D: Someone once texted me from MTV saying they were Rachel Stevens and asking me out and I walked round work telling everyone! So I rang back straight away to check it was really her!
H: I was like, my God, hes ringing me, what am I supposed to say?
D: I said to her: “You’re coming on my show on Monday so lets go out for a drink afterwards.”
How was the first date?
D: I was worried because I’d never dated a celebrity before, so I didnt know where to take her. I took her to a members club in London with table service so we werent interrupted. I got Heidi absolutely slaughtered and I was pretty sloshed myself, but it was strange because at first it was like an extended interview.
Did you kiss?
D: Yeah, Heidi asked me for a kiss!
H: Im not usually that ballsy but I was quite drunk and really fancied him.
D: Id bought her about 15 double vodka and cranberries and she was like: “Can I have a kiss?!”. We were kissing and I was like, cor, Im kissing the fit Sugababe!
Would you like kids?
H: Yeah, we want three - two boys and a girl.
What about baby names?
D: I like traditional names like Jack and Bob.
H: We both like Frank because we love Frank Sinatra.
D: We’re not going to have a Bluebell Madonna, thats for sure.
Do you ever double date with the other Sugababes?
D: Yes, Amelle’s [Berrabah] fella Fred [Fuller] is a good lad.
Heidi, dont you all hate each other?
H: No, we get on so well but those rumours are good, and one of the things thats kept the band going!
Have you thought about going solo?
H: Yeah, but things are going so well with Sugababes right now.
Are you really mates with Robbie Williams?
D: No! However, he rang me once to wind me up because the papers printed that Robbie was cracking onto Heidi. He was like: “What you doing with my bird?”
H: No, he’d sent us flowers becasue we’d beat him to number one.
D: Unfortunately the papers pick up on things like that - we’ve read several times that we’re engaged. I get texts all the time saying congratulations. They never mention the good stuff, like the time I pogo danced to Sympathy For The Devil by the Rolling Stones with the legend that is Paul Weller! Now thats something I’d want everyone to know!
THE END
Source: RachHeidi via SugababesNL
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