Emmerdale’s Gemma Atkinson: ‘A Dubai Sheik tried to buy me as a wife!’

Actress Gemma Atkinson has claimed that a man tried to ‘buy’ her as his wife and move her to live in Dubai

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by Fiona Day |
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It sounds like something straight out of a Hollywood movie, but Gemma Atkinson has revealed that she received an outrageous proposal from a very rich Middle Eastern Sheik.

Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday, the soap actress said: “I was asked to go and live with him in Dubai. He wanted to pay for me to go… he wanted me to be his wife.”

“He was a sheik so it would have probably been in a big palace or something.”

She decided to turn down the offer (flattering as it was).

Gemma chose to stay in the UK
Gemma chose to stay in the UK

Gemma said: “I just thought ‘Oh gosh, no’. I didn’t follow it up. I just left it to my agent to politely decline.”

But this isn’t the first unusual request she has had from her male fans.

The 30-year-old revealed: “I still get pictures sent to me in the post. Men send them and ask me to sign them.

“I once had a guy who wrote asking for a photo of me smoking with a cigarette holder. I’m not sure why he wanted that. But it’s flattering.”

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