Aussie actress Emily Symons is best known for her portrayal of Marilyn Chambers in Home and Away - after first being hired on the soap back in 1989. But here in Britain she is fondly regarded for being in where she played landlady Louise Appleton from 2001 until 2008. Her on screen characters are no strangers to drama and the same can be said of her personal love life.
And this was the case during her time in England where she fell in love with a Premier League icon. The blonde bombshell met none other than supposed heart-throb Matt Le Tissier in 1999 when the goal scorer was the captain of Southampton. Le Tiss had recently divorced his childhood sweetheart who he had two children with when Emily caught his eye starring in a Goldilocks pantomime in his hometown.
Emily herself was also coming off the back of a divorce after being married to Nick Lipscombe between 1992 and 1994. And according to , Emily and Le Tissier were so enamoured by each other that they got engaged after just six months of dating. But at the turn of the century Le Tissier reportedly dumped the actress just one year before they were due to get married.
It didn’t take long for the former Sky Sports pundit to find the love of his life after meeting Angela Nabulsi in a nightclub in Southampton. He even appeared alongside her on the ITV quiz show Mr and Mrs where he said she was incomparable to his other lovers. “There was a very strong instant connection,” he said.
“There were no mobile phones in thos.