ONE WOMAN was left in tears after talking to her dream man online for months – only to find out that it was an ex-boyfriend’s partner who used a false identity.
Hayley, an admin assistant from Gloucestershire, appeared on MTV’s Catfish UK and shared how she fell head over heels in love with a tattooed man who slipped into her DMs a while ago.
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But after her dream guy, who claimed to be a man named Alex, always had an excuse to finally meet in person, the blonde stunner decided to get in touch with the show — and she soon learned the truth.
The two had met online and talked for five months, but still hadn’t seen each other in person, despite Hayley describing him as “the one” and living relatively close to each other.
“He’s exactly my type, both in looks and in personality.
“I was immediately attracted to him and we were connected on a deeper level too – I completely fell for him,” said Hayley, who has an exclusive relationship with Alex.
When she told her story, the assistant revealed that she was afraid Alex might be hiding something because if she questioned him, he would “back off”.
The hosts, Oobah Butler – the hoax who got his shed to the top of TripAdvisor’s London restaurants a few years ago – and the host of Catfish US, Kamie Crawford, then got to work to find out what was really going on. .
Alex, who worked as a butler in the buff, had at one point claimed to be a professional vet.
But when they looked up his name in the national database, the two hosts soon found out that wasn’t the case after all.
They then looked through his snaps and realized that Alex had in fact taken the photos of Ryan, “a sassy butler” who lives in Livingston, Scotland.
When they broke the news, Hayley couldn’t believe what she had just heard and tried to find possible explanations.
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But when the real Ryan entered the room and reaffirmed that he wasn’t the one she’d been talking to all along, Hayley burst out in tears.
“I feel like a mug. […] I really thought they loved me and that we would have this future together.”
To find out and give the heartbroken woman some answers, Oobah and Kamie suggested they meet “Alex”, but he never showed up.
When they arrived at the location the next day, the three came across a letter – one confessing feelings and written by a man named Liam.
Liam, as she went on to reveal, was her ex-boyfriend’s partner and the two had never really spoken well apart from the odd conversation they encountered on the street.
As she shredded the piece of paper, Hayley said, “I’m done” […]† It just doesn’t make sense.
“He made me feel so humiliated again.”
After the immediate shock passed and some time had passed, she revealed that she had put everything in the past.
“I’m just happy to see what’s happening now.”
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