Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Mapswining podcast, and today
Speaker 1: I have some sad news for you with a follow
Speaker 1: up on Rihe and Jeff. Over the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: as we know, rumors have been circulating about re and
Speaker 1: Jeff potentially splitting up. When I asked me about this directly,
Speaker 1: she said to me, all's good. And I then sat
Speaker 1: in this studio, behind this very microphone and I told you,
Speaker 1: lovely people listening, how they've essentially been going through a
Speaker 1: rough patch, but it seemed that things may now be
Speaker 1: on the up. Yeah, well about that. A load of
Speaker 1: their followers have now noticed over the last like say,
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, how they've unfollowed each other on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Or I'd say, actually, they haven't unfollowed each other. I
Speaker 1: would say one of them blocked the other one, because
Speaker 1: when I go down Rehe's profile all her posts which
Speaker 1: still have Jeff in them, like she hasn't took them on.
Speaker 1: They're still a lot, but he's no longer tagged in them.
Speaker 1: And when someone blocks the other like it automatically untas
Speaker 1: them in all of your existing content. So I would
Speaker 1: say they haven't unfollowed. Someone's blocked someone, which drama, and
Speaker 1: Jeff has also unpinned his posts which are at the
Speaker 1: top of his profile, which were him and re and
Speaker 1: you know, this is essentially they're not so sort of
Speaker 1: millennial way of saying we're done, see you later, get
Speaker 1: off my profile. And yesterday Daily Mel came out and
Speaker 1: basically said, yeah, they have officially broken up and they've
Speaker 1: been living apart for a couple of weeks. And that
Speaker 1: then caused a bit more confusion, especially in my comments
Speaker 1: on Facebook, because people were saying they saw a video
Speaker 1: recently on maybe one of their stories saying that they're
Speaker 1: still together, which I didn't see, so I don't know
Speaker 1: how true that is. But there's still a lot of
Speaker 1: confusion out there because Rie and Jeff still haven't like
Speaker 1: directly come out and said anything. But what I can
Speaker 1: tell you right now is and this is kind of
Speaker 1: what I've been told firstly, over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: as everyone has kind of been wanting a definitive answering
Speaker 1: commenting on everything like I.
Speaker 2: Used to together, what's going on? Have you broken?
Speaker 1: Like? Tell us, tell us, tell us. They haven't responded
Speaker 1: because it hasn't really been a definitive answer, and you know,
Speaker 1: often with breakups, when there's a bit of history and
Speaker 1: you live together and your life are like intertwined in
Speaker 1: many ways, it's rarely a wake up and one day
Speaker 1: one of you just go, Okay, it's over for good,
Speaker 1: get out the house. Well, unless something big and extreme
Speaker 1: like cheating something happens or there's a big incident which
Speaker 1: would lead to that imminent end. But I'm told that
Speaker 1: it's just not the case here. And the general word
Speaker 1: in the mass world about them is that kind of
Speaker 1: gradually things just changed and like a distance set in
Speaker 1: and they kind of grew apart, which you know happens.
Speaker 1: And as they've been like trying to figure things out
Speaker 1: and taking a bit of time apart while talking things
Speaker 1: through and figuring out like what do we want to do,
Speaker 1: this is kind of when everyone has noticed because of
Speaker 1: the now lack of content of them together and just
Speaker 1: been spamming them for answers, and you know, they've never
Speaker 1: come out and said yes or no, because well, I'm
Speaker 1: told that again, no real decision had been made, And
Speaker 1: like that must be hard having that pressure of like
Speaker 1: are you still together?
Speaker 2: Have you broken up?
Speaker 1: When you haven't even figured out yourself and It's funny
Speaker 1: actually to think about, because when it comes to relationships
Speaker 1: from reality shows like this that we have kind of
Speaker 1: watched blossom and you know we have felt a part of,
Speaker 1: and you know, we watch them be fast tracked in
Speaker 1: front of our eyes as part of an experiment on
Speaker 1: the Telly like.
Speaker 2: People often then.
Speaker 1: Expect those relationships to continue to be as black and
Speaker 1: white as they continue on in the real world.
Speaker 2: But that's not really how real life works.
Speaker 1: Like Ree and Jet haven't continued doing the commitment ceremonies
Speaker 1: with stay or leave on the sofa every Sunday where
Speaker 1: they would have an answer in writing every week, which
Speaker 1: I suppose is what a lot of people kind of
Speaker 1: their mindset is. They still expect that of couples from
Speaker 1: shows like this, but you know, real decisions are complex
Speaker 1: and they're layered and they do take time like this one.
Speaker 2: And even when I've asked.
Speaker 1: People like who are in the know over the last
Speaker 1: week or so, and by that I mean just people
Speaker 1: who are from maths previously, I know Ree and Jeff
Speaker 1: like they've just told me like, oh, I just give
Speaker 1: them a bit of time.
Speaker 2: No one quite knows anything.
Speaker 1: But now it seems as of twenty four hours ago,
Speaker 1: Rie and Jeff do know, and they've decided to split
Speaker 1: for good. And now I suppose we were getting to
Speaker 1: the well, why what happened? According to the Daily Mail yesterday,
Speaker 1: this is all apparently, and remember that word apparently, because
Speaker 1: as of right now, none of this is proven, but
Speaker 1: they claim this is all because Jeff was putting less
Speaker 1: and less effort in and had.
Speaker 2: Stopped taking re on dates.
Speaker 1: And that line from the US has now kind of
Speaker 1: started this narrative, like in this story that re equals
Speaker 1: the good one and Jeff equals the bad one. Because remember,
Speaker 1: when it comes to reality TV, even what a year
Speaker 1: two years off show, there's still this expectation that every
Speaker 1: story must have that hero and a villain, which you know,
Speaker 1: I get, and this is how the media works.
Speaker 2: But I also feel it.
Speaker 1: Is often unfair because now off the back of that story,
Speaker 1: which you know that may be true, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but the comments I'm now seeing people like, well, I
Speaker 1: also hear Jeff did this or said this, or you know,
Speaker 1: all these random claims which are just gossive and made
Speaker 1: up things. But that is now essentially building on this narrative,
Speaker 1: which is he equals the bad person here and again
Speaker 1: this may be true, but it also may not be true.
Speaker 1: And I personally think until like one of them and
Speaker 1: both of them comes out and says something, let's not
Speaker 1: get carried away, because ultimately in the maths world, and
Speaker 1: I say this on my own experiences with them, these
Speaker 1: are two of the nicer people we've ever had on
Speaker 1: this show. And Daily Mail also said yesterday and please
Speaker 1: listen to these words like exactly how they do it.
Speaker 2: This is the exact quote.
Speaker 1: It is also understood that Jeff is heading to the
Speaker 1: UK solo for business. Now that exact quote there is
Speaker 1: Jeff is heading to the un which to me sounds
Speaker 1: like he's off on a business trip maybe for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, a couple of months. But other websites
Speaker 1: such as the Tab, which is like a gossip and
Speaker 1: I think it's in the UK. I'm now reading from
Speaker 1: them right now, and they've now said this about the split.
Speaker 2: Jeff is now said to be.
Speaker 1: Moving to the UK alone for work, and the Tab
Speaker 1: then credits Daily Mail for that piece of info that
Speaker 1: Jeff's moving to the other side of the world, despite
Speaker 1: the fact Daily Mail never said that. They said he's
Speaker 1: just heading to the UK, implying for what a trip,
Speaker 1: not moving there forever, which are very different things. And
Speaker 1: when I keep talking about the word narrative and narratives
Speaker 1: in the media, this is what I mean. Like, you
Speaker 1: see how easy it is for one thing to be
Speaker 1: taken out of context and exaggerated and dramatized. And now
Speaker 1: everyone's takeaway from any story they click or read is
Speaker 1: Jeff no longer equaled the bad one, Jeff equaled the
Speaker 1: horrible one, like how could he do this?
Speaker 2: To read? How can he dumper or move to London?
Speaker 1: Because that's the comments I'm now despite none of us
Speaker 1: actually knowing, and neither of the people involved confirming god denying.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jeff may actually be moving to the
Speaker 1: UK forever and maybe that is the reason behind everything,
Speaker 1: but again, right.
Speaker 2: Now, no one knows.
Speaker 1: And ultimately, until either of them do say something publicly,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay sat here on this fence, impartial because
Speaker 1: as I said, like these two to me, they've always
Speaker 1: been the most unproblematic couples. So yeah, until one of
Speaker 1: them comes out and says otherwise, I'm gonna hold off
Speaker 1: the side taking and the shit talking and remain on
Speaker 1: this fence and I urge you to sit on it
Speaker 1: with me, which is quite boring and not because we
Speaker 1: all want the drama.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel a bit icky like fueling this narrative
Speaker 1: more myself on this platform when I literally have no idea,
Speaker 1: say yeah,