Ulrika Jonsson breaks silence after ex Sven-Goran Eriksson's tragic death
Ulrika Jonsson has broken her social media silence following the death of her former lover Sven-Goran Eriksson on Monday.
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Ulrika hit the headlines back in 2002 when news broke of her affair with fellow Swede Sven, who was in a long-term relationship with Nancy Dell'Olio at the time.
Yesterday it was announced the former England manager has died at age 76 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
While Nancy and several stars have paid tribute to the football manager, Ulrika chose to avoid mentioning her ex directly and instead posted a tribute to "National dog day".
The star, who often posts snaps of her beloved four-legged friends, shared a close-up image of her dog Hank's behind before she declared him "not a morning person".
Ulrika's post comes months after she branded Sven "not a decent person" after he revealed that he was dying of terminal cancer.
The TV presenter took to Instagram in January to share a brief post after the former England manager revealed the devastating news.
She shared a throwback photograph of herself on her Stories and insisted she didn't "have anything to say about Sven" and branded him "not a decent person" in an accompanying caption.
The post - which has since been deleted - read: "Look at me being all young all that. So. PSA. I don't have anything to say about Sven. #nada. Not a decent person."
Sven had been with Italian lawyer Nancy, 63, for three years when they moved to England for his job as team manager.
But by the start of 2002, he had embarked on an affair with Ulrika who was very unflattering in her comments about their dalliance.
She wrote of their fling: "I carried on my pursuit for love, pausing briefly for a fumble under the covers with a nearly 60-year-old, Sven-Göran Eriksson.
"Remember him, the former England football manager?"
Despite the affair with Ulrika, Sven's partner stuck by him, but he then had another affair in 2004 with the then Football Association secretary Faria Alam.
The story of the second affair was major news because Faria had also had an affair with the then FA CEO, Mark Palios.
Speaking on his Amazon Prime documentary, Sven spoke candidly about his affairs, but insisted that "sex is one of the good things in life for all of us".
However all these years later in her most recent column for The Sun, Ulrika still could not bring herself to say anything positive about Sven.
She shared: "He says in his documentary that he didn’t commit a crime, and he’s right about that. But he did do wrong. And he simply didn’t really care about much of life."
