A reality TV star has revealed the ‘last resort’ that she took to save her relationship with a Love Island contestant after he admitted to taking other girls on holiday.
According to a poll conducted by the World Population Review, a whopping 36 percent of Brits admitted to cheating on their partner last year.
Adulterous adults can be dealt with in various ways - building back trust through communication and mediation, forgiving them of their crimes, or just plain kicking them to the curb.
Upon learning that her boyfriend had taken another woman to see Chris Brown live in Germany, Anya Carter did what anybody who wanted revenge would do; she entered him in for a reality show.
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Carter and partner Bayley Mummery, a Love Island 2023 star, began dating last year, but his serial cheating had left her too stressed to sleep and constantly crying.
Instead of walking away, she signed him up for Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends, forcing him to live in a caravan in Greece to learn how to be a better lover.
Speaking about what sparked her decision to send Mummery on a European vacation, Carter told Metro: “We needed to change our relationship. Something drastic needed to be done.
“He was an absolute nightmare.”
The salon owner told the publication that she would previously get messages from other girls informing her what Mummery was up to.
She also claimed he wouldn’t post pictures of her on social media and that he would go radio silent on evenings out without her.
"I get it, I should have just left at the first red flag, but any relationship isn’t easy,” she admitted.
She added that ‘dating was hard’ and that she thought it was sometimes ‘better to work on things’.
Believing enough was finally enough, the 28-year-old sent the operations manager off on what he believed was a competitive TV series called Brotopia with seven other men.
The eight boyfriends were visibly shocked to discover they had to compete and change their ways - but Mummery took it in his stride.
After completing challenges that included apologising to Carter for past wrongs and answering questions about her in a quiz, he came out of the competition as the victor.
“Of course, it can get to a point where you are pushed away so much that you do have to leave. That’s the point I was at when we went on the show,” she explained.
Bad Boyfriends host Olivia Attwood has had her say on the controversial ITV program.
She told Metro that she didn’t want people to believe they had to ‘fight’ for their partner's love, and that her show was more of an ‘experiment’.
“This experiment was very much about seeing if exposing the boys to their bad behaviour would impact them in a way that they would want to change.
"I’m not encouraging people to stay with some horrible person who isn’t nice to them. Not the case at all. There is scope for human error, change and development.
"We’re living in an epidemic of violence against women, and misogyny is at an all-time high and actually, for quite a lot of these guys seeing themselves was a very sobering experience. There’s a deeper route that the show takes."
Series one and two of Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends are available to stream on ITVX.
Topics: Entertainment, ITV, Sex and Relationships, TV, Dating trends
Ella Scott