Sue Barker 'upset & angry' after Cliff Richard's friend 'dumped her over phone for singer'

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Cliff Richard early on during her tennis career. In a new interview, the BBC presenter, 66, told how she was left "upset and angry" following the end of their one-year relationship, which she claimed came to an end after the singer asked a friend to dump her over the phone.Former pro tennis player Sue dated popstar Cliff for a year at the start of the eighties- when she was 25 and he 41.The TV presenter has now told of her sadness after claiming the the singer got a friend to break-up with her over the phone, instead of doing it himself.Sue told how after being injured she felt "down" and subsequently sought to chat with Cliff to lift her spirits."He was, I thought, my boyfriend," she added.Sue went on to describe how she was living with a girlfriend called Jill, who was seeing Cliff's friend Bill Latham at the time.She added that the two were "chatting happily" everyday while Bill was on holiday with Cliff, but meanwhile, the singer had ghosted her.After Sue spoke to Jill to ask Bill to ask Cliff to call her, the tennis player finally heard from the singer.She explained: "Forty-eight hours later, I got a call from one of Cliff’s friends, on his behalf, saying that Cliff just wanted to cool it.

Our ‘relationship’ was over."He’d asked his friend to pass on this message over the phone?" she  claimed.Sue went on: "I flew back to the States, upset and angry.

During the past five months, we hadn’t been seeing a lot of each other as I was on a tennis tour and he was doing an album."So it certainly didn’t feel like we’d reached a point that merited either of us being dumped by the other," she wrote exclusively for Daily Mail.Six years after her romance with the Ocean Deep hitmaker, Sue went on to marry Lance Tankard and have.