VIEWERS watched Bachelor In Paradise couple Lisa Hyde and Luke McLeod break protocol and leave the island early on Monday night — but the romance has been tarnished with confirmation the pair have split under ugly circumstances.
During Monday night’s episode, the pair decided to exit the Fijian paradise so they could take their relationship back to the real world and enjoy their romance away from the cameras. And what was painted as a dating show success story quickly folded when McLeod made a decision that ended it all.
The indiscretion came to light after an interview with Hyde, 31, who admitted she was no longer with McLeod because of “broken trust”.
The phrase “broken trust” alludes to something very specific. It insinuates there was a dirty Married At First Sight-style situation that played out. Was there a third party involved? With not much else to do, I stole a colleague’s serious-looking blazer and investigated.
My interview with Hyde, 31, began innocently enough. It was organised through Network Ten publicists with the purpose of talking about her loved-up exit from the show with McLeod. But the couple weren’t on the phone together. Instead, they were doing their interviews separately. Asked if they are still an item, Hyde hesitated before confirming the relationship ended tumultuously in January because of 34-year-old McLeod.
“Since the show, we did date for a few months but we have recently broken up for a certain reason,” she said. “If a trust is broken within a relationship it’s really hard to go back from that. I want him to be a man and own up to what he did.”
After they left the Fijian island and returned to their lives in Sydney, Hyde said the pair quickly integrated into each other’s lives and met each other’s families. And while she thought things were perfect, McLeod had other ideas.
“I thought we were going well ... unfortunately that’s not the case,” she said, adding that McLeod would have to explain what he did.
Moments after talking to Hyde, I interviewed McLeod. He didn’t know I’d just been chatting with his ex and he was quick to gush about how there was “no one else there [on the island] I wanted to get to know other than Lisa”.
It was the perfect set-up to my A Current Affair “gotcha!” moment.
I told McLeod I had just spoken with Hyde and she revealed their split. He paused, unsure of what I knew.
Giving my best Tracy Grimshaw impression, I readjusted my shoulder pads and asked witheringly: “Did you cheat?”
He didn’t know how to respond.
“It’s difficult ... it’s difficult to talk about the relationship when you’re ... its like ...,” he stumbled.
“We had a lot of pressure on ourselves. It’s this weird situation ... [We] can’t be in a normal relationship. Because you have to be in this secretive relationship — if people see you together and you’re out then that’s the show gone. It was a tough space and difficult to deal with.
“There’s two sides to the story and all that. I’m disappointed it didn’t work out. I genuinely want all the best [for her].”
Asked to clarify what Hyde meant when she said he broke her trust, McLeod stumbled again. I asked him if he had relations with other people while with Hyde.
“I didn’t date someone else ... I think the best way to explain it ... there was trust broken and we’re just trying to move forward ...” he said.
At this point in the interview, I decided Grimshaw wasn’t harsh enough so kicked it up a notch into full-blown Liz Hayes.
“For the purpose of clarity, yes or no: Did you cheat?” I demanded.
“I’d prefer not to disclose that,” he replied. “I think there are two sides to the story. I take responsibility for my actions.”
The Four Corners episode of this investigation airs Monday on ABC.
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