What's married Millionaire star Chris Tarrant doing with this girl?

Tarrant seen with mystery woman

What's married Millionaire star Chris doing with this girl?

By Luke Mendham

TV star Chris Tarrant phoned a friend for a quiet chat...and ended up going 50-50 on drinks with a mystery woman in a pub.

Our exclusive pictures of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? presenter show the pair cosying up for an hour and a half in a trendy west London pub.

They hugged and even appeared to kiss.

Chris then put a protective arm around the blonde as they waited for cars to take them home. And all the time, Chris's wife Ingrid was filming just 100 yards down the road.

Finally the star was whisked off in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes S Class while his guest was driven away in a people carrier.

But the £1million question last night was: What was the 59-year-old married star really up to?

Naturally, we asked the audience. A fellow drinker at the Walmer Castle in Notting Hill said: "They were sitting at a table in the corner of the pub and they were laughing a lot. They were flirting like mad."

But—as one of Chris's friends pointed out—his wife was filming a TV makeover show with TV style gurus Trinny and Susannah just down the road.

So he would have been very brave—or stupid—to have tried anything that was , er, questionable.

But the pal added: "Did he flirt with this girl? Probably. Did he kiss her? Well, he'd had a few to drink that day and so he can't honestly remember. But there's certainly nothing going on. There's no relationship and absolutely no affair.

"Chris can be a bit of a flirt sometimes but that's all."

We quizzed some people ourselves and established that Chris was meeting a TV researcher from the Michael Parkinson show, which he is due to appear on.

His spokesman told us: "It was all hugely innocent. She was simply talking Chris through the subjects we'd cover."

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