This is the woman Take That’s Howard Donald tried to gag over their illicit nine-year affair. The millionaire star went to court and got a draconian “super-injunction” to stop beautiful singer Adakini Ntuli from telling anyone about their relationship... even her own mother.
Now after a bitter court battle lasting months, we can exclusively reveal how dad-of-two Howard, 42, cheated on BOTH mothers of his two children with single mum Adakini, 39, after meeting her in a nightclub 10 years ago.
But last month her lawyers persuaded the appeal court to modify the “catch-all” court order. The fact that the affair took place can now be reported so long as intimate details remain private.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, Adakini says that far from being a secret mistress, she and Howard regularly went out in public together, including nights out with his friends.
“Our relationship began as an affair but I fell in love with him,” says the mum of two, who sings in a pub band and lives on benefits.
“For nine years we were close, but now he won’t even speak to me.”
She believes Donald’s gagging order is to protect him from more claims from other women.
“His court action has exposed his infidelity rather than keeping it secret.
“I would never have shared our secrets. He knows I’d never have betrayed him.”
Adakini met Howard –now with Marks & Spencer TV ad model Katie Halil – in July 2000 at a Manchester club where he was DJ-ing. At the time he was living with Victoria Piddington, mother of his daughter Grace, then a baby and now 10.
Take That had split and Howard had started a new career.
“I was single and craved some excitement,” says Adakini, who came to Britain from Zimbabwe with her mother and step-dad when she was eight.
She left school at 17 with no qualifications and quickly got pregnant.
“My daughter’s father disappeared instantly. But I knuckled down and got on with things. By the time I met Howard, I was almost 30. I had a son of four but his father and I were no longer together. Life was tough but I worked in shops and offices and juggled life’s daily grind just like everyone else.
“I was singing in a soul band and writing songs. I wasn’t a star-struck young girl. I didn’t even know who he was at first but I found myself chatting to him after his set.”
Back at the club a week later, she was told by Howard’s friends that he was smitten.
“I found out he was Howard from Take That just before I went in,” she says.
“I heard some girls talking. I was a little bit let down. He seemed a little less cool to me. But there was a strong attraction I couldn’t ignore.”
They swapped numbers that night. Adakini admits: “I knew he was in a relationship and I did feel guilty. But we went into it with our eyes open.”
They began going to Manchester’ record shops where all the staff knew him.
“Anyone who noticed us would have assumed we were an item, not an attached guy out with his mistress,” she says.
The first time they went out, Howard picked her up from home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in a silver Ferrari.
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“I was horrified,” she says. “It drew so much attention. We pulled on to a petrol forecourt and people were looking to see who we were. From then on, he picked me up in a black VW.”
Then she started joining Howard on DJ dates around the country.
“We would be in hotel lobbies together,” she says.
“He never tried to hide me or smuggle me in. I felt like an actual girlfriend.”
One night they had dinner with Take That’s official photographer Phil Ollerenshaw at a Cantonese restaurant in Wilmslow.
“I was nervous because it was such a public situation and so close to Howard’s home. I was worried we might be seen by someone who knew Victoria. But Howard didn’t seem worried. I sat next to him and just joined in the conversation.”
In July 2003, she was photographed by paparazzi in a Manchester coffee shop with Howard, bandmate Jason Orange and their pal, actor Max Beesley.
“It felt perfectly natural to be there by then,” says Adakini.
“No one ever questioned the fact that we were in a proper relationship.”
However, a few months later, they stopped meeting because Howard began spending most of his time DJ-ing in Germany.
He split with Victoria and began a relationship there with ex-model Marie-Christine Musswessels, now the mother of his youngest daughter Lola, now five.
“I felt hurt and angry,” says Adakini. “I tried to forget about him and move on.”
But then he began dividing his time between the UK and Germany and the affair was rekindled.
It stopped again in November 2005, started once more in 2008, but ended after just a few months. They saw each other fleetingly during 2009.
“I’d waited for nine years,” she says. “I thought that soon I wouldn’t have to share him any more.”
But then in March this year, it emerged that he had been cheating on Marie since last April with a SECOND mistress –beautiful Dutch clubber Merith Van Onselen.
“That was the final straw,” says Adakini. “I snapped. I was so angry. I thought I was the only one he was having an affair with. It felt I had been led on and manipulated. I was devastated.”
She admits sending him a text saying: ‘Why should I continue 2 suffer financially 4 the sake of loyalty when selling my story will sort my life out?’ But she insists she sent it in anger and now regrets it.
“I was in a bad place,” she says. “I had no idea that it would spark such an over-the-top reaction.”
Days later, she was contacted by celebrity law firm Schillings to say Howard was trying to get a super-injunction stopping her saying anything about the relationship to anyone, including friends and family.
“It was terrifying,” she said. “I felt afraid and confused and angry. I couldn’t tell a soul what was happening, not even my mum. It made me ill and I was admitted to hospital with depression, anxiety and neuralgia.”
Now the injunction has been relaxed, but Adakini insists: “Now I will fight for as long as it takes to get it fully lifted. I now want to tell the whole story. I think it is wrong that celebrities are able to use the law to cover up their actions.
"I loved Howard once but he let me down so badly.”
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