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MAFS spoiler thread.

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marmiteadict · 25/09/2022 18:05

As the current thread is restricted only to discussing what is actually happening on the show, I thought I'd set up a spoiler thread where Instagram posts, Daily Mail articles etc are allowed to be discussed.

In no way is this meant to replace the main thread and discussions about the show. Just so that comments that are not allowed are able to be discussed.

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kseason · 28/09/2022 15:53

I've just had a look at Sophie's LinkedIn linked above (www.linkedin.com/in/sophiehlbrown/) and PP is wrong about Sophie - and I think it's really unfair to call her a cold caller or membership sales person. She hasn't worked for UKFast/Tech Manchester for 3 years, and she actually works in a cloud computing business called THG Ingenuity which has 200+ employees. It is a proper tech company and she IS head of channel.

I wonder if PP has any agenda, but it's clearly fake news. She is what she says she is.

fairycakes1234 · 28/09/2022 16:08

Iamthewombat · 28/09/2022 10:52

Yes, they really are easily discovered. That’s what I did last night when I finally watched the episode with the two new weddings.

I’m Mancunian, I’m in a big finance job and I know the Manchester business community. The bullshit alarm was ringing as soon as I heard Sophie trying to present herself as the Sheryl Sandberg of Manchester. It was so obviously bollocks.

I looked into it. Sophie, allegedly ‘global head of partnership’ or ‘head of channel’ in tech, is nothing of the sort. Of course she isn’t. Would a real mover and shaker in tech behave like her, or go on some stupid trashy reality show? Of course not. Nor would anyone in such a role in their twenties be desperately trying to impress everyone by bigging up the importance of their career. They simply wouldn’t need to do it. Nor would they take months of sabbatical to be on some stupid reality show (which I am watching, haha).

Here is what she really does. She works at an organisation called TechManchester. They are so small that they file micro company accounts. There are three employees. Three. 3. Not hard to call yourself a ‘global head’ in those circumstances, is it?

TechManchester are a company limited by guarantee. What this means is, no share capital has been injected by the founders. Companies limited by guarantee tend to be charities or sometimes trade associations. In this case they have a negative balance sheet: the accounts are abridged so not much detail, but the net assets will be negative because the company operates using a directors’ loan from the founder. Entrepreneurial businesses re not limited by guarantee. Businesses paying big salaries are not usually limited by guarantee. She’s a bullshitter.

What TechManchester are doing is similar to what another much bigger organisation called TechUK do. They ask businesses, usually SMEs, to pay an annual subscription in order to network and to shape the content of tech education y working with universities. They also tend to offer conferences etc to make extra money. Sophie will be calling businesses trying to get them to subscribe. That’s her ‘channel’ and ‘partnership’ that she’s calling herself the ‘global head’ of. In the three-person business that’s basically a small charity.

I can’t bear silly deceptions like this. It undermines women who have genuine tech careers, or are aspiring to them. This idiot says that she dropped out of university ‘to work in tech’. As if she were too entrepreneurial to study or whatever. Bollocks. She dropped out then got a mediocre job selling subscriptions to small businesses. I really hope that her fairy story doesn’t encourage other young women to think that that is how life works. Drop out and you too could be filmed walking through Manchester with Selfridges carrier bags, pretending to talk business on a mobile phone and dressed in a ludicrous outfit. That sort of thing would get you laughed out of any serious tech business.

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@Iamthewombat ah stop taking it so serious, leave the girl alone, so what she has has exaggerated, who exactly is she harming? Youre taking it way too far.

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 28/09/2022 17:24

Listening to the MAFS Hysteria podcast, Lara is so funny!! She said (about Richie singing to her at the wedding) “I was so scared because when he said ‘I have something to show you’ I was 99% sure that he was gonna tell me had a vagina, because that’s the kind of thing that would happen to me” - I’m howling 🤣🤣🤣

Puffalicious · 28/09/2022 17:25

Youre taking it way too far

I agree. Back off. Poor girl.

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 17:35

Thank you for linking me! I'm going to go to the beginning and read it all for the rules so I don't get told off again.

beneathhereyes · 28/09/2022 18:04

Just saw on Whitney's insta that Duka gave her and Matt 'his blessing' to be together after they explained that they had feelings for each other. So the 'reveal' at the dinner party was staged.

stillvicarinatutu · 28/09/2022 18:06

Following!

browneyes77 · 28/09/2022 18:06

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 17:35

Thank you for linking me! I'm going to go to the beginning and read it all for the rules so I don't get told off again.

There are no rules here!

Half of us on this thread joined because we got told off on the other thread, so you’re not alone 😂

browneyes77 · 28/09/2022 18:07

beneathhereyes · 28/09/2022 18:04

Just saw on Whitney's insta that Duka gave her and Matt 'his blessing' to be together after they explained that they had feelings for each other. So the 'reveal' at the dinner party was staged.

Explains his ‘reaction’ or lack of one….😂

browneyes77 · 28/09/2022 18:11

TitsInAbsentia · 28/09/2022 14:19

I'd have literally done a backwards limbo off that bridge to get away from him...rather have pond weed and frog spawn all over me than matt!

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In that moment, suddenly becoming a celibate Nun would’ve been REALLY appealing to me, if it meant I didn’t have to deal with his Vampire Viking moves 😂😂

browneyes77 · 28/09/2022 18:14

Also did anyone notice, the next morning, Whitney did not have the rosy glow of someone who’d just had sex with someone they really fancied.

Girl looked bored 😂😂

Chasingclouds100 · 28/09/2022 18:16

Yes I thought that - she looked utterly miserable!

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 18:20

@browneyes77 oh brilliant Tim in good company then. It's all so staged I can't buy into spoilers 😂
God Matt is so unappealing though, I'd imagine he is quite a niche taste. And quite coarse (as opposed to vulgar Gemma 😂) - wouldn't fake a wedding with any of them tbh.

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 18:20

*Tim = I'm

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marmiteadict · 28/09/2022 19:14

@OneFrenchEgg as @browneyes77 says there are no rules here.

Sorry if you were given a hard time for mentioning anything not seen in the programme.

Most of us have been told off because the OP did have very clear/strict guidelines. It wasn't for me, but it ended up getting a bit shouty between people several times

I enjoy flitting between them both. You are most welcome to post all the tea here ☕️

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browneyes77 · 28/09/2022 19:21

You are most welcome to post all the tea here ☕️

Yes! Post all the tea! I want it ALL!! 🤣🤣

browneyes77 · 28/09/2022 19:26

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 18:20

@browneyes77 oh brilliant Tim in good company then. It's all so staged I can't buy into spoilers 😂
God Matt is so unappealing though, I'd imagine he is quite a niche taste. And quite coarse (as opposed to vulgar Gemma 😂) - wouldn't fake a wedding with any of them tbh.

I initially felt for Matt. I’m no prude at all, and have a dirty mind, but Gemma was super vulgar and I kept shouting at the tv to her “What are you doing? You’re not listening!!” 😂

But after recent episodes, Matt is really showing his true colours IMO.

The way he spoke to Zoe? She only said “I’ll be brutally honest…” and before she even got to finish what she was saying, he got all shouty and said “I’ll do what I fucking like!”.

Er ok Ragnar….dial it down!

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 19:33

Omg yes angry Matt mode. I wonder if he felt cornered by the producers re The Reveal and it came out in anger? (Conspiracy theory)

I did at the wedding feel for him, but only because I thought maybe he was a bit more refined 😂

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 19:34

I enjoy flitting between them both. You are most welcome to post all the tea here ☕️

Brilliant it's more fun reading crap in the Sidebar of Shame - I don't believe any of them are truly seeking love

TinyKittenPaw · 28/09/2022 19:41

Iamthewombat · 28/09/2022 11:21

I get that MAFS likes a story. Of course it do.

That typo makes me sound like Snoop Dogg. Of course it DOES, that should say!!

😂😂😂😂🤣

beneathhereyes · 28/09/2022 19:43

Thomas and Gemma seem to be story-ING on insta like a full time job, they literally do about 100 a day!

bonkersbirdie · 28/09/2022 20:06

Side bar to Adrian putting on his socks. I knew I loved him for a reason

www.instagram.com/reel/Ci7HR-7Dgaa/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 21:15

ASMR is a bit creepy. Like listening to someone chewing.
George is a bit twitchy on the sofa

OneFrenchEgg · 28/09/2022 21:17

Ooooh George is getting antsy

ILikeHotWaterBottles · 28/09/2022 21:19

What is Adrian trying to say? I want to know! What is George hiding?!

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