IF YOU’VE EVER had the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of making love to a former popstar only to have your plans thwarted by a bucket of fried chicken, you’re not alone.

Gemma Collins, please step forward.

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In last night’s episode of Living with Lucy, the reality TV star revealed that she has always had a thing for none other than Westlife’s Brian McFadden.

Brian McFadden was the one that got away from me. He should have been mine.

Recalling a trip to Dublin, Gemma told Lucy that she combed the highways and byways of Temple Bar in an effort to find him… as you do.

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And while she wasn’t successful on that occasion, fortune intervened, and she once found herself face to face with the Dubliner in her very own apartment.

Well, it does get better. He’s actually been in this apartment. I wanted to jump on him but he had a bucket of KFC… that’s not the reason I wanted to jump on him.

That’d be our reason, but OK.

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In fact, the presence of the chicken actually threw Gemma off her game somewhat.

So, I’m thinking ‘Mate, forget The KFC. How am I going to get McFadden into the bedroom?’ Because I want to fulfil this lifelong dream of making love to Brian McFadden.

Thankfully for the 37-year-old TOWIE star, Lucy revealed that she knows Brian, and wasted no time promising to call him for her.

Sure, she’s sorted so.

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