'Harry Potter' star Tom Felton reveals he 'always had a secret love' for co-star Emma Watson

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"Harry Potter" star Tom Felton revealed that he secretly had romantic feelings for his co-star Emma Watson. The 35-year-old actor admitted that there was "a spark" between him and the 32-year-old actress in his new memoir, "Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard", obtained by The Evening Standard. "I loved and admired her as a person in a way I could never explain to anybody else," he wrote. "Harry Potter" star Tom Felton revealed that he secretly had romantic feelings for his co-star Emma Watson. (Getty) Watson played heroine Hermione Granger while Felton portrayed her nemesis Draco Malfoy in the mega-hit franchise. .

The two co-starred in all eight of the movies in the series from 2001 to 2011. In his new book, Felton shared that their relationship initially got off to a rocky start when they met as child actors.

He recalled his first encounter with Watson, which took place at an audition when he was 11 and she was 9. Felton wrote that Watson pointed at a boom microphone and asked him, "What's that?" to which he responded, "It means they are recording us, obviously." "My relationship with Emma did not start well," Felton admitted. "She’d have been forgiven for not wanting much to do with me.

It got worse." Felton wrote that he mostly avoided Watson after they were cast and spent his lunch breaks smoking cigarettes and listening to rap music with other actors.