Adam Collard has spoken out about his split from Paige Thorne for the first time, and denied cheating on her.
Adam Collard denies cheating on Paige Thorne
The 26-year-old reality star struck up a relationship with paramedic Paige, 24, when they both took part in ITV2 hit 'Love Island' earlier this year but split after a video of him putting his arm around a woman in McDonald's went viral, and he has now called out the "misinformation" that has been spread following the incident.
He said: "I've heard so much misinformation the past few days, so I feel like I need to now say what really happened.
“The night I was seen with my arm around the girl in McDonald’s I’d been out on a PA and met loads of people that evening. It’s my job at the end of the day, to take pictures and selfies and things like that. Anyway, after that me and my friends were starving so we decided to go for a McDonald’s and we walked there whereas normally we’d be taken by security. So anyway we just walked along, which isn’t normally the case, and in there was when we met the blonde girl who was like the famous one out of the video that was shared around. She actually was really nice and polite and we’d had a couple of drinks but what she said was ‘I got in tonight to the club but my friends didn’t.' "
The fitness instructor went on to explain that what is seen in the viral video is not a full representation of what took place in the fast food store, and insisted that posing for selfies with fans was "all that happened".
He told The Sun newspaper: "So what you don’t actually see in the video is the camera goes around and I get photos with all of her friends like that and take pictures with all of them. That was all that happened. It was just a snapshot. It was just a laugh and carry on. Again, another thing you don’t see is that two of my friends are actually on the left and right. All we were doing was waiting for food and took pictures with people in there. The blonde girl has publicly said she went home on her own and again at the end of the video you don’t see her go left and me go right. But that doesn’t matter because people want to believe what they want to believe.
"It all got blown out of proportion, then all the other photos and videos I’d taken that night got turned into looking like something else. There’s a video of me earlier that night in a club. I don’t even know who took it, but I’ve seen one of them and I think that’s what Paige has been referring to. I was just working."
His comments come just weeks after Paige claimed that their split wasn't related to the one video and she "couldn't justify" Adam's behaviour.
She said: "I’m single – living my best life. No I’m kidding, it’s been a really s*** time. It’s not just that video. There are other videos that people don’t know about of different people, on the same night, in different locations. At first I was like, nah do you know what? It’s just an arm. I get that people get flirty. There’s nothing to it. If I’m in the club and a guy puts his arm around me, is it cheating? No. And then these other videos came out and I’m just like, ooh. Ooh, I can’t justify this."
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