Matchmaker Andrew Lloyd Webber

07-10-2008 13:00

Denise Van Outen says Andrew Lloyd Webber is like Cilla Black.

The blonde beauty has likened to musical mogul to the famous 'Blind Date' host, after matchmaking her and boyfriend Lee Mead when they both appeared on his BBC TV talent show 'Any Dream Will Do'.

Andrew is just like Cilla Black, isn't he? He got us together. I got far more than I was expecting from working on 'Any Dream Will Do', so it has been really lovely.

She said: "Andrew is just like Cilla Black, isn't he? He got us together. I got far more than I was expecting from working on 'Any Dream Will Do', so it has been really lovely."

Denise, 34, who has been dating 27-year-old Lee for a year, also said she wants to have a normal life with Lee, and hates the thought they are considered a "celebrity couple".

She added to Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "Me and Lee are both in the public eye and we both have our careers. But we don't want to be a celebrity couple - there is no Jordan and Peter Andre fly-on-the-wall documentary in the works - and Andrew respects that."