Mr Metcalfe also paid for her to have Botox beauty treatments and even offered to cover the £45,000 cost of buying out her fiance’s share of a house where she lived with her teenage daughter from another relationship, the Daily Mail reports.
Her subsequent claims of sex discrimination and harassment related to sex were dismissed, and she has now been ordered to pay Mr Metcalfe’s haulage firm £15,000 in legal costs.
In a judgment published following an employment tribunal last May, it read that Ms Hennell-Whittington "did not, at any stage until the breakdown of the employment relationship, inform him she was not interested romantically".
Mr Metcalfe, who had repeatedly declared his love for Ms Hennell-Whittington, the tribunal heard, terminated her employment five days later.
They previously ruled Ms Hennell-Whittington had encouraged Mr Metcalfe's affection as part of a "transactional" relationship that afforded her a lifestyle she "could not reasonably expect" in any other job.
