PRODUCERS of Spain’s many gossip TV exhibits and magazines will need to have been gleefully rubbing their palms this weekend, as one of many largest superstar scandals of current occasions performed out earlier than their very eyes on social media. 

The primary protagonist of this very public affair was Tamara Falcó, who’s the Sixth Marchioness of Griñón, and thus an aristocrat, in addition to a tv character – Netflix not too long ago launched a actuality present based mostly on her life titled “Woman Tamara”.

Simply final week Falcó, 40, publicly introduced that she was engaged to Íñigo Onieva, a designer and businessman with pursuits in nightlife ventures, and with whom she has been concerned romantically for 2 years. The announcement was made on September 22 through Falcó’s Instagram account, through which she stated that she was “the luckiest girl on the earth” because of her relationship. 

However by the weekend that apparently idyllic image was beginning to collapse. Only a day later, a video started to flow into on social media apparently displaying Onieva kissing one other girl at a music competition. The businessman was pressured to make an announcement by which he claimed the photographs have been from 2019, “earlier than we met one another”. “I’m loopy in love with Tamara and we’re going to get married it doesn’t matter what anybody says,” he advised reporters. 

By Saturday, nonetheless, Falcó had deleted the Instagram picture that she had printed to announce the engagement, and each on-line and TV detectives have been poring over the temporary picture of Onieva kissing the girl to see if he was telling the reality. 

Firstly they recognized the girl he was kissing, who’s a vogue mannequin who lives in New York and who printed a sequence of images from her time on the Burning Man competition within the US state of Nevada, only a few weeks in the past. In certainly one of her movies, Onieva is current. 

What’s extra, none of Onieva’s earlier social media posts confirmed him carrying the identical garments as he had on within the incriminating video. And a Telecinco present, Ya es verano, even went as far as to determine the music enjoying within the background of the video – which wasn’t launched till April of this 12 months.

Ultimately Onieva was pressured to admit and printed an Instagram story on Sunday by which he lamented his “unacceptable angle” and apologised to Falcó and her household (she is the daughter of now-deceased aristocrat Carlos Falco and Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler). 

He additionally referred to as for the photographs to now not be shared or broadcast, and that “no extra data that affects our privateness be printed”.

Given the curiosity the story has generated not simply on-line but in addition in Spain’s gossip press, that request is prone to be simpler stated than achieved.

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