We're starting to feel really sorry for Cheryl Cole now, not only is the star recovering from malaria but she now has to deal with a stroppy male, in the form of her ex-husband Ashley Cole.

According to Now, the footballer who cheated on Cheryl earlier this year, is jealous of his soon-to-be ex wife's new relationship with Derek Hough, calling him “twinkle toes t**t”

A source revealed: “Ashley absolutely hates seeing them together and everyone knows not to show him any pictures of the two of them.

“At first he didn't take their romance seriously and even thought Cheryl would come running back to him....Once he even said - quite poker-faced, although everyone else was in stitches - that Derek was worse for Cheryl than he was because he caused her to get ill on a stupid holiday and at least he never gave Cheryl malaria.”

29-year-old Ashley sure doesn't sound his age when the source goes on to reveal what the footballer has planned...

“Ashley Jokes that one day he's blatantly going to walk in when Cheryl and 'twinkle toes twat' “as Ashley has maturely nicknamed Derek) are there and sit between them on the couch.

“He made a joke that it's his couch so they'll have to have a dance-off if Cheryl tells him to leave.'

What did Cheryl ever see in him?

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Cheryl's gone from chav to fab....