"Heartbroken and blindsided": The Beast's ex-girlfriend opens up about split
The ex-girlfriend of The Chase star Mark Labbett, also known as The Beast, has opened up about her high-profile break-up with the TV star, slamming his behaviour in the last weeks of their relationship.
Hayley Palmer, an entertainment news presenter, announced her split from Labbett just days after their one year anniversary, sharing the news on Instagram in May.
Now, in an interview with The Sun newspaper, Palmer took aim at Labbett and his alleged handling of their split, saying she had been “blindsided” by their break-up, and shared how he had lived up to his name as The Beast.
“It has come as a complete shock. I thought we were really happy,” she said.
“I’m heartbroken and blindsided. His behaviour has been beastly.”
Palmer went on to say that Labbett dumped her over a callous three-minute phone call, and said their breakup came because The Beast did not want to formally divorce his ex-wife Katie, who is also his second cousin.
She went on to say that before their shock split, Mark — who has a seven-year-old son with his former wife — had even suggested they move in together.
But in the days following, a phone call came from Labbett to end their relationship.
Struggling to hold back tears, Hayley told the publication, “The call started off as a normal conversation. He was spending time with his son and we’d had a conversation about me joining them at a water park."
“Then he said, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but you were right. I don’t want to divorce my ex-wife’.
“The shock of the way he said it was so brutally cold and not the Mark I know. I thought he was a gentle giant, so this was the complete opposite. He was as cold as ice."
“The phone went from my hands, I just hung up on him. I ended up walking around for three hours not knowing where I was going."
“I’ll never get over the shock of that, I’m still in shock now. It’s such a hurtful way to do it. The fact that he didn’t have the respect for me, and for him to do it over the phone — it was a really low move."
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