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GhostShip · 08/08/2012 21:40

Donned a cap and a pair of track suit bottoms and tried talk all manly like, you'd realise?

I'm just watching the programme The Girl Who Became 3 Boys and I'm gobsmacked.

Basically Gemma, Jessica and Alice are friends.

Gemma creates a fake profile on Facebook and becomes Luke. Gemma, cleverly disguised Hmm as Luke meets up with Alice and they have a relationship.

Gemma then creates a new profile, this becomes Aaron. Aaron meets up with Jessica and they have kisses and cuddles etc.
But Jessica doesn't like Aaron enough, so Lo and behold Cona is born!
gemma creates another profile as this Cona, and meets up with Jessica, apparently Jessica doesn't realise
Neither Jessica or Alice realise at any point that Gemma, Cona, Aaron and Luke are the same!!! They had even had sex!!

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/9459791/The-Girl-Who-Became-Three-Boys-Channel-4-review.html

I haven't explained it too well but here's the story and I recommended anyone watches it on 4od

But seriously, is it that unreasonable for me to think I wouldn't be tricked this easily?? Even when I was their age

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ImperialBlether · 08/08/2012 21:46

I was in stitches watching this last night. I know there was a really awful side to it, with the sexual assault, but how the hell that girl didn't realise that her friend and both her boyfriends were the same person, I'll never know. Even now she refers to "he" rather than "she".

I think the girl (who became the boyfriends) was seriously mentally unwell.

PenisVanLesbian · 08/08/2012 21:47

You must have the IQ of a potato to have not noticed.

GhostShip · 08/08/2012 21:48

Jessica is bold as brass isn't she! Even about the assault! And then she was convinced it was Alice's boyfriend who had done it not Cona... Wtf!

I'm actually gobsmacked.

I agree with the article I posted, there's not enough proper psychological input from anyone about Gemma. That woud have been interesting.

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GhostShip · 08/08/2012 21:49

I don't know how you can't realise youre having sex with a dildo.

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ImperialBlether · 08/08/2012 21:50

No, OP, but Jessica's boyfriend was her old boyfriend, who was now going out with Jessica!

ImperialBlether · 08/08/2012 21:50

The psychological report said she was on the autistic spectrum and had ADHD but didn't have any personality disorders.

ImperialBlether · 08/08/2012 21:51

They were virgins, it was dark, neither wanted to go that far. They were fifteen.

AKissIsNotAContract · 08/08/2012 21:51

I watched this last night, I too couldn't believe the girls were taken in that easily. Why would you want a boyfriend who never removed his hat? The part where 'he' wouldn't speak as he was shy was weird too. 'He' would text his girlfriend in the same room rather than speak to her.

RubyFakeNails · 08/08/2012 21:53

I didn't watch it but my dcs apparently nearly died laughing. It was all over twitter an everything.

GhostShip · 08/08/2012 21:54

I was fifteen when I lost my virginity, I would have know.

I can't help but think how naive these girls are. Jessica is now 2 years younger than myself, she doesn't seem it at all.

It all seems too strange for words. I really really feel sorry for 'Alice', the girl who remained anonymous.

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ImperialBlether · 08/08/2012 21:54

Anyone who went out with my son for a whie would've been lucky to see him without his hat on!

RubyFakeNails · 08/08/2012 22:01

Have only heard endlessly about this from dcs but how they could not of known it was a dildo is totally beyond me.

At least Alice had the sense to remain anonymous, I think her appearance on that doc as well as he involvement may now define her.

The hat thing is odd, but they never heard her speak, she only text.

GhostShip · 08/08/2012 22:03

Jessica - 'Cona would hit me and be abusive. But then when I'd see him again he said it was Luke dressed as him'

For the love of god.

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Pickles77 · 08/08/2012 22:05

I'm so confused... And im not 15.

It was all the he said she said he said stuff.

GhostShip · 08/08/2012 22:07

It is really confusing, have you watched it?

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Pickles77 · 08/08/2012 22:08

Yeah... Read several articles too. It's bizarre!! I defo do not get the dildo thing...

GhostShip · 08/08/2012 22:11

Funny how she tried to blame the creator of Facebook for it all, Mark Zukerberg!
Sorry love, I think the person at fault is your friend who tricked you into having sex with him as two different boys...

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 08/08/2012 22:20

Not the brightest bulbs in the candelabra though, are they? Watching in now on 4oD..

RubyFakeNails · 08/08/2012 22:24

Well I daresay that plays a part in the whole thing.

StuntGirl · 08/08/2012 22:44

I read about that at the time, so bizzare. Gemma clearly has some kind of psychological issue.

SPsFanjoSponsorsTheOlympics · 08/08/2012 22:49

I watched this last night and still don't understand how they didnt know!

Jess didn't seem bothered by the situation and spoke like it was a story she was reading.

I think they knew all along and when they fell out they went to the police.

RubyFakeNails · 08/08/2012 22:56

Bizarre is the word. I don't understand it at all, I remember not understanding it in the papers and I don't think the documentary resolved it.

None is ever going to understand how 2 girls didn't notice their mate dressing up as bloke, well 3 blokes, and fingering them. Mental.

Krumbum · 08/08/2012 23:13

Did this person not have the same face?
I knew boys that never took off their hats, or at least I think they were boys....

Krumbum · 08/08/2012 23:15

Don't be stupid. If you have never touched a penis then how are you meant to know how it feels in the vagina?

GhostShip · 08/08/2012 23:19

Krumbum I meant more of the positioning and getting it in... It'd be awkward, not sure how that worked.

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