Hey Lifers!
We come to you today after 2.5 hours of technical chaos. Britt nearly got deported from Italy. With ten days until she legally had to leave the country, Ben revealed he had not, in fact, sorted the visa that he was meant to.

Laura's baby Poppy had what we are calling an incident involving the family dog Buster and sensory play. Buster was mortified. Poppy was unbothered.

There's also a Slimy Rock Johnson update. The garden snail that Marlie Mae brought home five weeks ago, that half of you were very invested in, has been ceremonially released to the garden after Laura quietly became the only one caring for him.

Then the story that has been living rent-free in our heads for two weeks. Katie Price, UK glamour model, national treasure of chaos, recently married a man named Lee Andrews after knowing him for approximately two days. Lee lives in Dubai. Lee is allegedly a billionaire. Lee has photos with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian that are so obviously photoshopped you will need to sit down.

Multiple women have come forward saying Lee is a serial romance scammer who took significant amounts of money. A Texan nurse lost over £123,000. His previous fiancée is apparently wearing the same ring Katie now has. Lee was supposed to fly to the UK to appear live on Good Morning Britain to prove he could leave the country and instead called Katie from the airport to say he was being bundled into a white van and cable-tied. He has been "kidnapped" ever since.

We unpack the whole unhinged saga including Katie’s particularly interesting timing to be doing CBD gummy ads. We speak about tactics that romance scammers use like ‘future faking’ and the ‘double trauma’ that victims of romance scams experience. Britt also has some personal experience with why people might not listen when someone tries to warn you.

You can listen to our chat with Cecilie and Pernilla from the Tinder Swindler here

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 — Tech chaos, cross-continent recording
2:00 — Britt almost got deported from Italy
12:30 — What life actually looks like in Italy day-to-day
21:00 — Poppy's dog poo incident.
25:00 — Slimy Rock Johnson's farewell ceremony (RIP)
30:30 — Katie Price: who is she and why is the whole world watching right now
34:00 — Lee Andrews, the fake kidnapping and a van with cable ties
45:00 — Why women stay: love bombing, isolation and the psychology of the con
54:00 — The embarrassment of being scammed and why Katie might already know
1:01:00 — Can we laugh at this? Where the comedy ends and the concern begins
1:02:30 — Suck & Sweet of the week

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