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MARRIED At First Sight star Nathan claimed his ex Lacey told him they should have a “showmance” after the experiment.
On tonight’s reunion show, the cast returned for an explosive dinner party, but it was Nathan’s revelation that shocked viewers.
The Sun revealed in November that Nathan and Lacey had secretly split after filming for the E4 series ended.
He admitted to the boys that Lacey told him they should continue their romance for fame and “magazine deals”.
Speaking to the camera, an emotional Nathan said: “I was so gutted when it ended, I thought our marriage was going to last forever.”
While Lacey said: “People are going to be shocked that it was Nathan that blocked me, I just feel that he gave up.”
A tearful Lacey said: “Him just blocking me like I’m nothing hurt me, I just tried so hard.”
Catching up with former co-star Kieran, Nathan said: “After the experiment she was completely different.
“I was going to see her every weekend, she never came to see me once in the whole relationship, never.”
He explained that the relationship “felt one-sided” and she found excuses to not visit him on weekends.
Nathan said: “She said ‘I think it’s best we be friends’, she ripped my heart out.”
After arriving at the dinner party and reuniting with some of the boys, Nathan explained why he and Lacey decided to call it quits.
He said: “She just decided it was better to be mates, it was a bit one-sided. It goes into something that’s not genuine.”
Nathan then revealed that his ex had allegedly sent him a text saying she wanted to “fake” the relationship for “opportunity and money”.
He said: “Shortly after she messaged me and said after a year you get magazine deals and things like that, showmance.”
A shocked Kieran fumed: “Fake as f***,” while Orson added: “Awful.”
Nathan went on to say: “She sent me a text message saying the relationship she wanted would be a pretend one so she could get more opportunity from it and make more money but I didn’t want to do it.
“It’s a bit embarrassing, I don’t really want to talk about it to be honest.”
MAFS star Nathan recently told The Sun why he and Lacey split.
Shortly after their break-up was revealed, Lacey spoke to The Sun and told us that she feared Nathan was “faking” the romance the whole time, just for the cameras.
However, now Nathan has broken his silence on the break-up and revealed that he is in fact the one who has been left “brokenhearted”.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, he said: “Things weren’t the same off the show, it was very different.
“I’d always have to go there, she wouldn’t come to see me – those kind of arguments. I’m not too sure, things were quite different after the show.
“When you’re together, you’re 100 per cent in the same place.
“But after the experiment there was a big distance there.”
Asked who’s idea it was to break-up, Nathan said: “She decided, she said let’s just be friends.”
Speaking about how he was feeling post break-up, Nathan said: “I’m scared to date again, I want to but my hearts still broken.
“I definitely do want to date again but there’s no one yet.”
Lacey also spoke to The Sun last night and she told us: “I left him [Nathan] in 2024, to me this is a new slate. I am single.
“He’s not worth it. I’m just doing my thing, I believe in the universe, if I’m meant to meet someone then I will.”
The duo have delighted E4 fans with their blossoming romance – seeing the pair finally declare I Love You during last week’s final dates episode.
Stephen A Smith hasn’t been a stranger to criticizing the Philadelphia 76ers. This time, his criticism is pointed at 76ers general manager Daryl Morey. After the 76ers signed Paul George in free agency, the season has been a bust, compared to expectations. Many thought that they would be at the top of the Eastern Conference. […]
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Second baseman Jackson Holliday has been at the Baltimore Orioles’ spring training facility in Sarasota for the past three weeks, hitting camp early with some of the team’s other young talent. His manager, Brandon Hyde, expressed optimism over what he saw from the youngster, who hit .190 in 60 games last season as a rookie. […]
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Luka Doncic is flashing his potential with the Los Angeles Lakers. The newest Laker Doncic exploded in the first quarter then lobbed an alley-oop to LeBron James on Saturday versus Denver. But now comes his most highly anticipated game yet against the Dallas Mavericks — which got DeMarcus Cousins thinking a “shark” will come out […]
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Like other NFL teams, the Washington Commanders must make tough roster decisions. They also added an interesting name to their coaching staff. And here is a perfect trade the Commanders must complete in the 2025 NFL offseason. While it’s among the possibilities the Commanders could make a trade for Myles Garrett, the asking price seems […]
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Unfortunately for the Phoenix Suns, they continue to find themselves in plenty of NBA rumors. For instance, Bill Simmons explained Kevin Durant’s alarming behavior during the Suns loss on Thursday. Although that could be a spur of the moment, plenty of executives don’t feel that they. They feel this has been coming for quite some […]
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Michigan football didn’t have the season that it was hoping for in 2024, but the roster had no shortage of talent to put on the field. That will be on display in April’s NFL Draft, when many Wolverines will be selected on both sides of the ball. One of the top Michigan players who will […]
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Dallas Wings former first round pick Lou Lopez Senechal has made the decision to sit out the 2025 WNBA season, the team announced on Monday. The former UConn women’s basketball guard was selected fifth overall in the 2023 WNBA Draft. She did not make her debut in the WNBA until 2024, however, as she was […]
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IF AI generated a song about itself, it might adapt a line written by Freddie Mercury in his Queen pomp.
“CAN’T stop me now, I’m having such a good time.”
As you may have gathered, artificial intelligence is like a runaway train, here to change all our lives forever, for good and for bad.
And it is causing an existential crisis for creators of what, for decades, us Brits have been rather good at — popular music.
Now, proposed changes to copyright laws have provoked some of our best-loved stars to speak out.
Sir Paul McCartney fears a “wild west” and The Who’s Roger Daltrey warns that “AI is going to destroy the music industry if we’re not careful”.
Yesterday, 1,000 signatories from that industry, which contributed £7.6billion to the UK economy in 2023, submitted a “silent album” called Is This What We Want? to Downing Street demanding “that the Government ensures fair pay for the work that powers AI”.
One of those backing the Make It Fair campaign, Kate Bush, said: “In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?”
She previously used Monet’s paintings of Victorian London, in which “vague, blurred” figures were veiled in fog, to express her fears.
“Is that us?” she mused.
“Standing in awe at the dawn of AI, standing at the dawn of modernity, as smog was for Monet at that time in the newly industrial London?
“Do we only see the twinkling light of the new invention, which so often catches the eye of our imagination . . . and what are those vague, dark sardonic shapes we can see in the background, behind the theatrical gauze?”
Before we hear more from concerned artists like them, just consider some of our acts who burst onto the world stage with their own songs.
In the Sixties, it was trailblazers such as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks. Not to mention hard rockers Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and prog-rock pioneers Pink Floyd.
The Seventies was the era of singer-songwriters, glam rockers and punks — David Bowie, Elton John, Kate Bush, Joan Armatrading, Roxy Music, Queen, The Sex Pistols and The Clash.
The Eighties witnessed the arrival of synth pop in the shape of Eurthymics, Wham! Duran Duran and indie icons The Smiths and New Order.
The Nineties and Noughties were all about brash Britpop — Oasis, Blur, Pulp — and glorious Glastonbury headliners — Radiohead, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys.
In the past two decades, we’ve seen the emergence of solo powerhouses like Amy Winehouse, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Stormzy, Sam Smith and Dua Lipa.
But, by the end of the 2020s, will we be celebrating computer-generated output by that faceless, ubiquitous artist called AI?
In one of his illuminating letters to fans, Nick Cave, the Aussie who made Britain his home for years, told of his horror at songs created by AI platform ChatGPT “in the style of Nick Cave”.
In response to one artificial composition which included the line “I’ve got the fire of hell in my eyes”, he raged: “This song is bulls**t, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human.”
He also noted: “ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.
“Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel.
“Data doesn’t suffer.
“ChatGPT has no inner being.”
Daltrey, known for his towering vocal interpretations of Pete Townshend’s songs, echoed this view.
“Music is a different language, and we shouldn’t let AI control that,” he said.
“It will always contain empathy, and AI can’t do that.
“If AI can ever do empathy, then we are f***ed.”
A considered perspective came from Joan Armatrading, the songwriter who emerged in the Seventies with sublime Love And Affection and has continued to write and perform into her seventies.
“It is crucial to safeguard the rights of creators through robust copyright laws,” she affirmed.
“Governments must take immediate action to ensure that the intellectual property of creatives — whether ideas, works, or inventions — remains protected and under the originators’ control.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus may not be from Britain but he and his group left an indelible mark on our pop culture with Dancing Queen and the rest.
As president of the International Confederation of Societies Of Authors and Composers, he has a pragmatic approach.
Bjorn said: “There is no way we can or should stand against AI.
“I am using AI models myself, and these are wonderful tools that can enhance creativity.
“But this progress must never come at the expense of creators’ rights.
“And this is not just an ethical issue, it’s economic good sense because the whole concept of copyright has immense impact on culture, jobs and the economy.
“We can’t let that be watered down by poor regulation of AI.”
One notable user of AI is the aforementioned Paul McCartney, who sanctioned its use to extract the vocals from an unfinished demo by John Lennon to make The Beatles’ “final” song, Now And Then.
He accepted that AI “can do lots of great things” if used the right way.
But in a televised interview, he added words of extreme caution: “You get young guys, girls, coming up.
“They write a beautiful song, and they don’t own it.
“Anyone who wants can just rip it off.”
“The truth is, the money’s going somewhere.
“Somebody’s getting paid, so why shouldn’t it be the guy who sat down and wrote Yesterday?”
Macca spoke directly to Keir Starmer and Co when he said: “We’re the people, you’re the Government!
“You’re supposed to protect us. That’s your job.
“If you’re putting through a bill, make sure you protect the creative artists, or you’re not going to have them.”
British music has been on a long, winding and wildly successful road — but now it’s time to say HELP!