Seconds Take That Exposed: Howard Donald

Take That's Howard Donald smoked cannabis then got dutchy-feely with brunette from Holland

A SECOND Take That star is today exposed as a love rat - after having an EIGHT-MONTH affair with a married Dutch beauty.

Singer Howard Donald romped with 28-year-old Merith Van Onselen behind the back of the mother of his youngest daughter at the height of the group's comeback - after wooing her while high on cannabis.
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Howard, 41, was in a relationship with Marie Christine Musswesseles and portraying himself as a doting dad to their little girl Lola while he was secretly bedding Merith at his London home.
Today Merith tells the News of the World how the star swept her off her feet in a dope-filled club in Berlin where he was working as a house DJ in July 2008.
"He made it clear that he fancied me. But he smoked a joint to get the Dutch courage to tell me," says the beauty.

"The first time I met him I told him I was married and he pulled a sad face and shrugged. I thought that was the end of it."

But determined Howard spent SIX MONTHS bombarding her with raunchy emails. He also sent her a picture of him smoking a cannabis spliff at a DJ gig in Berlin - where smoking dope is legal - with the message: "It's a horrible pic but I like the look of the joint!!"
Merith says: "He said cannabis gave him confidence and kept telling me he had been thinking about me all the time. We kept running into each other at different DJ nights. He would say I was beautiful and special.
"Then one day I gave in. It was the start of a passionate relationship. He has a very high sex drive. He wanted exciting sex and he sure got what he was looking for."

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