{"id":399867,"date":"2025-09-05T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:40:22","slug":"celebrity-big-brothers-donna-preston-emotional-as-she-says-her-weight-gain-led-to-break-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399867\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Big Brother&#8217;s Donna Preston emotional as she says her weight gain led to break-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Preston was on the verge of tears as she revealed why she thought her previous boyfriend had split up with her during the latest episode of Celebs Go Dating<\/p>\n<p>21:50, 04 Sep 2025Updated 23:34, 04 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_cgd10jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Preston\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Donna Preston was on the verge of tears as she revealed that her weight gain led to the end of a relationship during Thursday night&#8217;s episode of Celebs Go Dating(Image: Channel 4\/Celebs Go Dating)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Donna Preston was on the verge of tears as she revealed that her weight gain led to the end of a relationship during Thursday night&#8217;s episode of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/celebs-go-dating\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebs Go Dating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The comedienne, 39, is currently one of the famous faces looking for love on the latest series of the E4 reality show and is appearing alongside the likes of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/kerry-katona\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerry Katona<\/a>, S Club&#8217;s Jon Lee and Made In Chelsea star Sam Prince.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But as she sat down with dating experts Anna Williamson and Paul C. Brunson, Donna, who appeared on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/celebrity-big-brother\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrity Big Brother<\/a> earlier this year, became emotional as she theorised why one of her previous partners had fallen &#8216;out of love&#8217; with her as her body changed.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/celebs-go-dating-chaos-mark-35843305\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"35843305\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebs Go Dating chaos as Mark Labbett insults Paul C Brunson in tense row<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/celebs-go-dating-stars-stunned-35803803\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"35803803\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebs Go Dating stars &#8216;stunned&#8217; as Kerry Katona shares boyfriend&#8217;s first date gesture<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_cgd7jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Preston\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Donna said that her previous boyfriend had &#8216;gone off her&#8217; when she put some weight on(Image: Channel 4\/Celebs Go Dating)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She said: &#8220;What really got me was that he said &#8216;I should have left you four years ago because I haven&#8217;t loved you for four years.&#8217; This for me is key. You can&#8217;t waste someone&#8217;s time. You&#8217;ve wasted four years of my life. You didn&#8217;t love me, you didn&#8217;t respect me. You didn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It was what it was but I put on weight. That was&#8230;just weight. But that&#8217;s when it really started going sour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anna told her: &#8220;It feels like you really haven&#8217;t been your own cheerleader in relationships at all because you feeling as if you are responsible for a relationship demise for how you look. Does that sound fair?&#8221; Donna then said she could &#8216;understand&#8217; why the relationship went awry because she had changed so much. Donna replied: &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; but Anna asked: &#8220;Do you think that&#8217;s fair?&#8221; She said: &#8220;I understand why he went off me because I looked like a different person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">When Anna asked if her former boyfriend ever complimented her, Donna said: &#8220;Yeah sometimes, whilst playing video games &#8216;Oh, yep, yep yep.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_cgd11jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Celebs Go Dating\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Dating experts Anna Williamson and Paul C Brunson quickly reassured her that the breakup wasn&#8217;t her fault(Image: Channel 4\/Celebs Go Dating)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Away from the meeting, Anna suspected in a confessional that Donna is covering up her personal &#8216;heartbreak&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She said: &#8220;Donna clearly holds a lot of her emotions in. She puts up a big wall of defence but she&#8217;s clearly protecting what, I think, a very broken heart. But if she really does want to be open to finding love, she has to be more vulnerable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But Anna was quick to reassure Donna that she was not the reason behind the end of the relationship. She told her: &#8220;The association that you have created that &#8216;it&#8217;s my fault because I changed&#8217;, that relationship did not break down because of you, Donna. Okay?&#8221; Donna held back the tears as she started to accept that and said: &#8220;Okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a confessional, the TV star admitted: &#8220;The session today has been a tricky one. And speaking to Anna and Paul, they have given me some great advice It&#8217;s just not okay the way I was treated back then but going forward, hopefully I can be stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It was then that Anna and Paul introduced her to her next date, a 40-year-old civil servant from Liverpool. In a video message, he explained that he was a huge fan of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/doctor-who\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Doctor Who<\/a> and is an avid Lego set collector. Not entirely convinced, Donna said: &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things he does that my ex does. Comics, Lego. For me, it&#8217;s not my thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Despite her trepidations, Donna agreed to give it a go and was sent on her way to meet the new man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Like this s<\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">tory? 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