CELEBRITY Big Brother winner Courtney Act – AKA Shane Jenek has confessed he loves Andrew Brady, but says he won’t let himself be hurt by their relationship.

The 35-year-old Drag Race icon struck up a close friendship with the 26-year-old Apprentice star in the house and Shane says he accepts that Andrew isn’t attracted to him – just his alter-ego Courtney.

3 Courtney Act - aka Shane Janek has opened up about his love for Andrew Brady Credit: CHANNEL 5

He told The Sun Online: “It’s not an unrequited relationship, I’ve been in relationships with straight guys – well friends who I’ve been in love with and they haven’t loved me back that way, and it was damaging to my own psyche.

“I’ve come through the other side and understand that dynamic now… I understand that he’s very handsome and wonderful we have this friendship that was forged in the peculiar environment and we just get on so well.

“I don’t think my love is unrequited with Andrew, I think we both feel the same way about each other but he’s just not attracted to male bodied people.

“It’s like a love triangle, because he likes Courtney and I love him.”

3 Shane admits he loves Andrew - but Andrew is only attracted to Courntey Credit: Channel 5

Shane insists that even if Andrew was attracted to him, they wouldn’t be in a relationship.

He explained: “I see Andrew and I as a friendship and I don’t think we would be boyfriends even if he was attracted to me. I just value our friendship so much; it brings me so much joy.”

And after living together for a month the pair will now have to learn to adapt to life apart, as LA based Shane gears up to go on tour and Andrew gets on with life in the UK.

3 The drag star says the pair will never be boyfriends Credit: CHANNEL FIVE

To help Shane cope without him Andrew gave him a teddy bear – which Shane has named Brady, to “have a piece of him when they’re apart.”

Shane told us: “I slept with it last night and woke up with it in my arm, and it sounds pathetic but it was actually so pacifying.

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Constantly throughout our time in the hose, he reached across the threshold, whether it was having a bath, waxing his bum, putting him in drag, sharing a bed, or giving me a teddy bear.

“It warmed my heart, it was like a missing piece of the puzzle, I went to bed last night thinking, ‘I know we won’t see each other for a few months but I feel warm and fuzzy.’”

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