Personal Life
Jonsson lives in Stoke Row, Oxfordshire, and has a home on the Swedish island of Värmdö.
She had a relationship with footballer Stan Collymore in the 1990s.
She has previously been linked to well-known public personalities such as Prince Edward and Vic Reeves. In 2002 she had an affair with Sven-Göran Eriksson, then manager of England's football team. Partly as a result of this, she was given the job as a columnist for the News of the World newspaper in 2003, in which she regularly commented on Eriksson's personal life. Her column was stopped in 2007, a year after Eriksson resigned as England manager. It was announced in 2011 that she had taken legal proceedings against the newspaper over allegations an investigator had hacked into her mobile phone.
In 2002, Jonsson presented the reality television show, Mr Right, where an eligible bachelor (Lance Gerrard-Wright) is faced with choosing a girlfriend from a group of women. However, the eventual winner turned Gerrard-Wright down. Jonsson who then entered into a relationship with Lance Gerrard-Wright, marrying him on 16 August 2003; they split in October 2005. Their daughter was born 28 May 2004.
Jonsson married for a third time in March 2008, to US advertising executive Brian Monet. She gave birth to his son on 7 June 2008. She now lives with Monet and her four children.
Ulrika Jonsson is a Manchester United F.C. fan.
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