A UK woman enlisted the help of experts to hunt down the man she’d set a wedding date with, despite never meeting, only to learn he wasn’t the “jetsetter” with fancy cars that she thought he was.
Emma, a single mum from Liverpool, matched with a guy named Harry on a dating app and six months later had already discussed marriage and children – with the pair agreeing to tie the knot in a year’s time.
Despite being obsessed with Harry, a fitness enthusiast and entrepreuner who travels a lot for work, Emma started to see red flags when their plans to meet would never work out.
She features on a brand new episode of Catfish UK, a reality TV show that follows the stories of people in online relationships with partners they’ve never met in person, where she revealed her concerns to the show’s hosts Julie Adenuga and Oobah Butler, who agreed something doesn’t quite add up.
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Emma tells the pair: “He’s just everything that I could hope for in a guy, he looks amazing, he just ticks every single box… I’m quite obsessed with the boy.
“He’s an entrepreneur, he’s got property portfolios, he’s always going here there and everywhere.”
She shares that Harry is all for her being a single mum and says he wants to be there for her and her son. The pair have even spoken about having children together – and picked out names for their future babies – as well as tying the knot.
“We’ve discussed locations and dates… so we’d like to get it done by this time next year, we’re looking at a year,” Emma revealed.
“Harry is special, I’m not usually one of those girls that runs into things… this guy has changed my whole mind on everything.”
While she was clearly smitten, Emma was also slightly sceptical as she explained she and Harry are yet to meet in person.
Times that they have agreed to meet in person or he’s said he would call her, Harry doesn’t show up or doesn’t ring. Instead, he sends gifts to apologise for letting Emma down.
There was one time Emma was supposed to meet Harry at the airport. She travelled down to London and waited for him, but he never turned up.
“I went to meet him in London in the airport… wait there, due to land, he never shows up, call him, flight’s been cancelled,” she said.
Emma explained that Harry’s story backed up as his flight from Dubai had been cancelled, but an odd phone call had her wanting to get to the bottom of why the pair have never met.
Emma said: “He was in the business class lounge in the airport, I called him, I’m just trying to see this guy, he answered and was like, ‘I’m sorry I’ve got to go’.
“It was quite dark, I couldn’t really see his features fully. I tried to call him back but it said user busy.”
Julie and Oobah do some digging into “Harry” and quickly discover he doesn’t exist. He’s actually a man named George using pictures of a personal trainer from Ipswich called Komal, who had a girlfriend and was clueless his images had been used by a Catfish.
White haired George was no stranger to the devastated Emma – the pair had been on a few dates last year.
“Are you joking me? This has been you the whole time?’ Emma asked, as George approached her with a bunch of flowers.
“This necklace was you?’ she continued, ripping it off and throwing it at him.
George defended himself by saying everything he’d said as “Harry” had been true – but Emma wasn’t interested, though they have managed to become friends after the secret came out.
Viewers were shocked by the scenes, with one writing George looked “old enough to be Emma’s Dad”.
“What is this. This guys old enough to be her dad,” said one.
While one wrote: “Once again we have an ex that wants them back but f**** it up by being a catfish and now its not gonna happen”.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
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