Brizzle prof’s romance with Strictly star

Prof had romance with Susanna Reid while she was a student at Brizzle

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Bristol graduate Susanna Reid is a pretty big deal: a BBC newsreader, a contender for this years Strictly Come Dancing crown and one of  Zoo Weekly’s top ten ‘Britain’s sexiest mums’.

Now it’s been reported by The Sun that Prof Eric Herring and Susanna “scandalised” uni by having an affair while she was a student in Bristol.

Brucie bonus: big Suse in all her sequinned splendour. Photo: Daily Mail.

A source at Bristol University seemed to have plenty to say about the controversial romance: “It was an open secret that something was going on between them,” they confided to the Daily Mail.

According to the source Susanna and the Professor lived together for nearly three years.

Asked about his famous fling by the Daily Mail, Professor Herring was nothing short of gallant. He declared Susanna to be “a perfectly good person, a lovely person, and so I wish her nothing but the best.”

Dancing Queen – Susanna Reid’s moves have lit up this years Strictly Come Dancing.

Professor Herring continues to work at the University where he is now a reader in International Politics.