In scenes from 90 Day Fiancé UK, a guy challenges his girlfriend when he finds evidence that she might be a con artist.
The new discovery+ series is back and better than ever. It shows how seven British people in love with people far away put their relationships to the final test.
But when 37-year-old Michael and his 28-year-old Kenyan bride-to-be Mercy fight because he thinks she’s trying to scam him, it’s a bit of a roller coaster ride for them.
After Michael finds a website with Mercy’s information on it, including a fake name, and calls her out as a possible con artist, their wedding plans fall apart, leading to tense scenes between Michael and Mercy.
Michael, a mobile sludge worker from Essex, hasn’t had much luck in love in the past. “I was a busy boy in the past—I dated a lot of women in Clacton,” he says.
‘If you look at my phone it’s probably like the yellow pages!’
But when he didn’t find love in his own town, he tried a foreign dating app and soon met Mercy from Kenya.
After 18 months, they got engaged and are planning to get married.
‘I wasn’t expecting to fall in love with someone I met online, but I just thought I’d give it a go and see how things went. Mercy’s from Kenya, I love her to bits. She’s beautiful, caring, hardworking,’ Michael gushes.
In the episode, he says that at first he didn’t believe Mercy was who she said she was and thought things were too good to be true.
‘When I first started talking to Mercy, I thought she could have been a man,’ he joked.
‘You hear of these scammers that are sitting behind the computer and messaging people, and I think I ended up video calling her to actually see that she was in fact a girl.’
Meanwhile, Mercy reveals she was ‘bored in the house’ when she met Michael online and had no expectations.
‘The only thing I wanted was just someone just to entertain me. So, I called myself Kai,’ she says. ‘I wrote a message, and I used to send it to a million people. Just send it… click and send.’
Now, they are planning their wedding, which will take place in Kenya before Mercy moves in with Michael while they save money to buy a house and start their life together.
But it’s not all smooth sailing. Two of Michael’s best friends are sceptical about the relationship and worry that he’s swayed by love and missing signs that she might only be in it for the money.
‘It p***** me off when people doubt me and Mercy’s relationship,’ he says. ‘At the end of the day, they don’t know what they’re talking about.’
However, not long later, Michael’s friends bring him evidence that Mercy may not be who she says she is.
‘I found this on a website,’ his friend says. ‘My friend showed me a post online, and it had pictures of Mercy but with a different name, and it was saying about how she was swindling loads of different men.
‘Quick Google search and it came straight up, yeah Tinder Swindler.’
‘Is she having me on? Is she trying to get money out of me? Is she trying to scam me?’ Michael is left questioning.
Having already paid for the wedding, he decides to confront Mercy and take her to task over the accusations.
‘If this turns out to be true, me and Mercy’s relationship is over!’ he says.
But when he talks to her about it, their conversation quickly gets heated.
When Mercy answers Michael’s call, she knows right away that something is wrong. She asks, ‘Why you so serious?’.
‘Because you’ve got some explaining to do,’ Michael responds, taking a deep breath.
‘Check what I’ve sent you,’ he says, sending her the post.
‘What?! This is crazy!’” she’ a dumbfounded Mercy gasps.
‘What the f*** is going on?’ Michael asks.
‘Maybe someone is using my picture, my name is not Mercy Kameta,” Mercy says, denying the accusations, but she refuses to show her passport as proof.
As things become even more heated, Mercy hits out: ‘Don’t you trust me? What the f***!’
‘I’m not gonna prove s***! If you don’t trust me, f*** off!’
Michael says that he doesn’t know whether to believe Mercy or his friends.
‘I don’t know what to believe,’ he says. ‘Because I’m seeing one thing, and she’s obviously saying another thing. Can I trust her?’
Will Michael still go through with his plans to marry Mercy in Kenya, or is this the end of the road?
The brand-new series of 90 Day Fiancé UK is available to stream exclusively on discovery+ from Sunday, July 16.
Source My Celebrity Life.
