Lord Alan Sugar paid tribute to Apprentice star Stuart Baggs ahead of last night's semi-final.
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A couple reignited their romance 30 years later after discovering a stash of love letters - turning “first love” into marriage three decades on.
Kate and Guenther Baer first fell for each other while on holiday in Torquay in 1989 and started a two-year relationship, despite her living in Yorkshire and him in Germany.
Kate, then 17, remembers: “I saw him across the room of a pub and there was an instant spark. He reminded me of the keyboard player from a-ha, who I had a massive crush on.”
The struck up a conversation and 23-year-old Guenther asked Kate on a date.
She says: “We went for a coffee, then took a walk along Torquay Pier. I was smitten straight away.
“Guenther was tall, handsome, kind and interesting. The date ended in a kiss and I felt like I was already falling in love.”
Bavarian Guenther had to return to Germany the very next day. But the pair began a two-year romance, kept alive through letters, phone calls and a handful of visits.
Kate says: “Guenther and I were first loves – he was the first man I slept with, the first man I ever cared about.
“We were love’s young dream. I felt I’d met my soulmate, and so did he.”
Guenther flew back to the UK twice the following year to stay with art student Kate, and she joined him and his family for two weeks that October.
She said: “We climbed Hochgern, the huge mountain at the back of his house, and professed our love.
“It was the most romantic day. We even got professional photos of us together to keep.”
But in the spring of 1991, after Guenther’s efforts to move to the UK to be with Kate failed, the still-smitten pair felt they had no hope.
Kate admits: “I was the one who said we had to call it a day and move on.
“The distance had become too much of an obstacle. But I was
Lord Alan Sugar paid tribute to Apprentice star Stuart Baggs ahead of last night's semi-final.
Lord Sugar has paid an emotional tribute to the late BBC The Apprentice star Stuart Baggs. Lord Sugar spoke out and paid tribute to Stuart, 27, seven years after his death. He wrote: "As it's the interviews on tonight's @bbcapprentice we must give the last word to the late great Stuart Baggs.
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