Taken at Christmas last year, the picture shows the Hollywood legend’s reality star daughter posing with Jean-Bernard up New York’s Empire State building.
She wrote next to the photo: “Sometimes missing your flight home is a blessing #NYC #christmastime.”
The picture was taken just days before the wealthy businessman first met the X Factor judge in South Africa.
A source close to 21-year-old Francesca insists that the pair are just good mates, telling a UK newspaper: “JB knows Francesca well but nothing romantic happened between them. They’re friends, that’s all.”
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A friend of Jean-Bernard has, however, claimed that the nightclub owner dated another famous face before Cheryl, but kept their identity secret.
They revealed” “JB did date someone in the public eye before Cheryl but there was never any cross-over.
“JB was with Francesca in December and even though he did spend New Year with Cheryl, she and JB didn’t get together as a couple until much later on in 2014.
“Both were without a doubt single when they got together, then things happened very quickly.”
Cheryl started dating JB after spending an evening at his pop-up nightclub in Cannes.
After just three months, 31-year-old Cheryl wed her rich Frenchman in a tiny ceremony on the Caribbean island of Mustique.