Hunk Leblanc is everything a woman can ever want, says ex.
From Caroline Graham for The Sun, April 22nd 1997. Retyped by Ric.
Friends star Matt LeBlanc slowly poured the fragrant baby oil over his lover’s naked, wet body.
Scented candles, chilled champagne and soft music completed the seductive setting.
With firm fingertips, the man who sends millions of women weak with desire began exploring his beautiful girlfriend’s stunning body.
Recalling their many nights of passion, ex-love Tonya Poole said: "Matt is everything a woman could want and more.
Massage:
"With him making love is about quality, not quantity. He takes his time to woo you and seduce you.
"He would run me huge, deep baths and gently massage every inch of me with oil. Or we would have long, steamy showers together.
"Matt loves making love and he’s the best. When he focuses those big, dark eyes on you, it makes you feel like his entire universe revolves around you."
For three years 29-year-old Tonya, a 34C-22-34 Playboy Playmate, enjoyed a passionate on-off affair with the TV hunk who plays slow-witted skirt-chaser Joey in the hit Channel 4 series. She said: "Matt can make even a pick-up truck romantic.
"He started talking sexily to me as we drove along, sending my temperature up and up.
"Finally, it was too much to bear. I begged him to stop and he pulled over. I was desperate to make love but he held me back and kissed and caressed me and made me wait until I felt I’d explode.
"I’ve got an English friend who told me he should be called Matt LeBonk. When she explained it to me and I told him, he cracked up. He thought it was hysterical."
Petite Tonya, she is just 5ft 4in, first met 29-year-old Matt in October 1993 when he was broke and struggling to hit the big time in Hollywood - but happy.
When they finally broke up just two months ago, he was a superstar living in a £1.5 million [$3 million] mansion, driving a flash custom car - but miserable.
In a tearful final farewell, Matt told Tonya: "I thought money was all I needed to be totally happy. But it isn’t like that. I was happier when I was struggling and starting out with you."
Tonya told how she met Matt on the set of a low-budget film called Looking Italian.
She said: "Matt was a nobody but the first time I saw him I thought, "Wow - he’s cute!’
I was playing a nurse and wearing this sexy little uniform and I could see him staring at me across the set.
"When it came to our scene, I was leaning over him and the director kept yelling ‘Get closer!’
Gorgeous:
"I yelled back, ‘If I get any closer, I’ll be kissing him!’
"Matt murmured, ‘I do hope so.’
"I glanced down at him and he stared up at me with those gorgeous puppy eyes. I fell in love with him that second."
The pair went on their first date two days later. But despite the overwhelming lust she felt, Matt made blonde Tonya wait for weeks before they finally made love.
She said: "He insisted he wanted everything to be perfect and I loved him even more for respecting me."
Tonya was also being pursued by True Romance heart-throb Christian Slater. She said: "Christian kept begging me to go out with him and I kept turning him down.
"He was a fairly big star and he couldn’t work out why I wasn’t interested. I told him, ‘I’m madly in love with the love of my life.’
"That’s how I think of Matt even now. I still love him."
Tonya began spending nights at the tiny Los Angeles house that Matt shared with best pal Tommy Perna.
She said: "We didn’t make love for four or five weeks.
"During that time I probably spent 20 nights with Matt but we would cuddle and kiss, nothing more.
"He loved stroking my body, running his hands over my bottom and breasts. He loved touching my hair. When we finally did make love, Matt made sure everything was right.
"We went out to dinner, then to a club and danced until nearly closing time. Then back at his place he put Sinatra on the tape deck and dimmed the lights.
"He had no money for expensive flowers and candles but he had one candle stub which he lit.
"Then he slowly undressed me and himself at the same time.
"He led me to the bed and when he started making love to me, he whispered to me the whole time, saying how beautiful I was, how he loved my body, how great we felt together. It was incredible." With her salary as a model. Tonya helped support her broke lover.
She said: "I was pretty successful. I was on magazine covers, I had regular work and made good money. Matt’s very Italian and macho and never asked for a penny.
"He would never accept cash, so I’d but tons of groceries and stock up the fringe for him.
"Sometimes we’d drive down to the beach and lie on the sand and watch the sun go down.
"We found a favourite cave on one beach and Matt would spread his jacket down on the ground and we’d have sex. The acoustics were amazing.
Passionate:
"He’s a fantastic lover - very slow, gentle and caring one moment then passionate and animal-like the next.
"He can make love for hours. We would have marathon sessions, making love three or four times a night."
Tonya recalled how Matt, ho had recently been linked with Goldie Hawn’s stunning daughter Kate, 17, was "irresistible" to women.
She said: "Girls flocked to him. He’s very charming and drip-dead handsome. But Matt’s a one-girl guy.
"He’d talk to other girls but I would glance up and even if we were on opposite sides of the room, his eyes would be following me everywhere.
"At parties he’d whisper in my ear about how he had to talk to so-and-so because they were good for business - but he couldn’t wait to get me back in the bedroom.
"He loved having a laugh. Once he dressed up in his ice hockey uniform, jumped on the coffee table and slowly stripped to his jockey shorts for me.
"Then he carried me to the bedroom and flung me on the bed. The sex was awesome."
But Tonya said Matt - now in London filming Lost In Space - started to blow hot and cold.
She said: "After we’d been together for nine months I went away for a week on a modelling job. When I got back he stopped calling.
"We’d been very hot and heavy and when I finally talked to him, he said, ‘I need some space. I’m not ready for the big commitment yet.’
"So we had a break and started dating again a couple of months later. The pattern of our relationship stayed like that.
"It broke my heart but I loved Matt so much, I put up with it."
Two years ago Matt landed his role in Friends - and Tonya started seeing even less of him.
She said: "He called me and told me he’d got the show. I said, ‘Wow, Matt, that’s great!’
"I thought he’d finally be in something which might help pay the rent or get him a decent car.
"I had no idea how massive the show would be - and nor did he.
"From the start, Matt’s schedule went nuts. He’d be filming 12 or 14 hours a day, then working weekends doing interviews and appearances.
"We started drifting apart. There were months when we didn’t see each other when I knew he’d be dating other girls.
Painful:
"But I was OK because he told me I was the love of his life. I was special. But finally it got too painful. Two months ago he called me at 2.30 in the morning.
"I went over to his place and he told me he had everything he thought he wanted - money and fame.
"But he said, ‘I’m miserable.’ He wears sunglasses the whole time but people are always recognising him.
"He said, ‘I haven’t got time to be me any more, Tonya.’
"I gave him a big hug. But I knew it was over. In my heart, I think we’ll be together again one day but only when Matt is ready to commit to me and settle down."