Our eyes well up every time we hear the fateful words 'Ashley and Cheryl'. Love's young dream, torn apart by a naive and horny boy's inability to keep his penis flacid in its nappy. Will our Princess ever take back her wayward Prince? Well, apparently she's made the first step to doing just that - meeting up with him in secret last month...

Cashley is reported to have sent her a gushy, desperate text after watching her blub to Piers Morgan on ITV late last year, pleading with Chez to meet up with him. And she did. Last month at their old house. Where they reminisced and laughed about the time he spewed up on his mistress' carpet and sent naked pictures of himself to various women. What japes!

A source told the NOTW:

"The key thing that led to contact being restored was the interview. Ashley had been absolutely dreading it. He'd feared another bucketload of shit after the media criticism of him."

 

Media criticism? What media criticism?

"Cheryl only spoke of love and tenderness. She couldn't have been nicer."

However, we get the feeling Ashley's only using Cheryl to blag freebies off her - with the same source also revealing that he contacted her last week to try and get free tickets for the National Television Awards.

"He called her from the training ground and she told him she was going and he wanted tickets. He said he'd be discreet and make sure they weren't pictured together - and then they could meet somewhere private afterwards. It was obvious from his reaction she was unsure - but only because she was worried they'd be pictured. She wasn't against the idea of meeting."

So he shags a bunch of women behind her back, gets thrown out the house, but still has the cheek to phone her up for free tickets to fancy dos. Yep, that sounds like Ashley Cole alright.